As a diehard Pistons fan, I wanted to add to the discussion on the current state of the franchise. I’ve seen a lot of passionate, emotionally driven ‘everything is bad’ posts. While I don’t necessarily disagree, I will try to lean towards impartial judgement of what’s going on.

We suck, clearly - but are we really a 10-72 level team (assuming we keep loosing at our present rate)?

I personally don’t thing so. Up until the last 3-5 games, I would argue that we actually had been quite competitive - and had found ourselves in positions in which we could (if not should) have been able to win. Even against the Pacers, we were in that game for 90% of it, despite ending up losing by 20. That said, the 4th quarter execution has been terrible. Really amateurish mistakes - some of which you could chalk up to youth and lack of experience, but also there appears to be a huge lack of composure in crunch time. This is where we are missing our injured vets the most IMO. Confidence is obviously also severely lacking when you are on a 15 game slide and I think this is a big factor in what’s happened in the past few games (the uncompetitive blowouts).