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).

  • Patient-War-4964B
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    1 year ago

    Before the season started I said I would be absolutely stoked if we won 30 games. Now, from what I’ve seen of the absolute mess that is the Pistons currently, we’ll be lucky to win 17 again. And even whenever Bojan does come back, I’m sure someone else will get hurt (unfortunately it happens) and then we’ll be in the same place.