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Brandon Jennings said the Detroit Pistons need to practice shooting more.

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ATLANTA -- Brandon Jennings didn't have the greatest of weeks but the Detroit Pistons point guard said Friday that his team's errant shooting may be reparable with repetitions.

"If you ask the question about why we're not making shots, we don't shoot," Jennings said after Friday's 99-89 loss to the Atlanta Hawks. "We don't shoot in practice. We haven't really had a chance to work on our games or anything. When we do have shootarounds, we're not able to get up shots like we should."

The practice-poor Pistons have played 13 games already, losing 10 of them, and rank at or near the bottom of the NBA in the most important shooting categories.

Jennings said the Pistons would make good use of the three off days upcoming, with practices on Sunday and Monday.

But they have to do a better job making use of game-day shootarounds too, he said.

"I just think if you're going to have shootaround in the morning, I think it's good that you get loose and you should work on shots that you're going to take in the game," he said. "Even before, after practice, we've got to start getting in the gym, just working on our game more."

Is it the responsibility of players or coaches to make sure those shooting repetitions happen?

"Both," Jennings said.

Jennings didn't have the best of weeks.

The Pistons have lost four in a row. Jennings was warned by the league for a flop in the third quarter of Wednesday's loss to Phoenix, when the Suns' Eric Bledsoe flew past him on a 3-point attempt and he fell to the floor. And he left Philips Arena on Friday with a hyperextended left thumb, wrapped in tape and gauze.

So discussing the Pistons' team-wide inability to do the most essential thing in basketball was not high on Jennings' to-do list.

"Not shooting well, I think that's just the thing," he said. "We get a lot of shots to the basket we're not making them. A lot of open threes, we're not making them."

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