The Pistons are in year 4 of their rebuild (some would say they’ve been rebuilding since the Drummond draft), and currently seem to be taking steps backwards with their young core.
Cade is currently the least efficient player to average 20+ ppg in the league & Monty has been questionable with his coaching patterns. Their 2020 draft where they selected Hayes, Stewart, & Bey, has been a failure considering who was available on the board. They had similar cap money to Houston this off-season & instead of adding quality vets to help their core, they took on expiring contracts for players that aren’t even in the rotation.
There is no doubt they are the “black eye” of the league, & have been for some time.
Giving Monty that contract was such a huge mistake
they didn’t give him 6 years for him to turn it around in 4 weeks lol. Detroit’s FO needs to take a good long look at the shit roster they created
Yeah, those are some bad boys!!!
James Wiseman effect
Its the curse that comes with having the worst jerseys in the league, process sixers suffered the same fate
Any Detroit fans that can give a little insight on why Cade has been so bad? I was very high on him pre-injury but haven’t watched much Pistons this year.
He’s not good enough to be a number 1 option and he is the number one options on a team with zero other offensive options and zero spacing.
They have a little bit of maybe intriguing talent but NONE of it fits together.
Like, Ivey looks like he coudl be good but hes a ball dominant small shooting guard… he isn’t spacing the floor for Cade or vice versa.
Thompson is a defensive monsters but provides no spacing whatsever.
BPA makes the most sense drafting but you can kinda end up wtih rosters like this where the BPA dont fit at all
First and foremost he has turnover issues. He makes 3-4 lazy passes a game. Secondly, his conditioning isnt very good. He was out with lower leg all last season and his conditioning has suffered so he struggles late in games. We have very poor spacing which doesnt help with turnovers or getting efficient looks. Lastly, almost every team doubles him pretty consistently. When he isnt doubled he generally looks pretty deadly still
He is surrounded by shit. Zero spacing. He’s a 22 year old coming off an injury, being asked to lead 20 year old players lol they need a vet.
I don’t watch the Pistons either but here are the issues with Cade: He can’t dribble and has no explosiveness. A guy like that needs a lot of space to work and the Pistons are the antithesis of spacing.
The Pistons might be the worst basketball team I’ve ever seen and I remember the Isiah Thomas-led Knicks
This is why I told people to ease on the completely unnecessary Troy Weaver glazing. “By God, he’s done an amazing job” lmao what has he even done right?
Why trade Saddiq Bey for Wiseman man, at least grab those 5 second round picks that were offered instead
The comparison to Houston is spot on. Both came into the off-season with young talent and needing a new coach. Houston “overpaid” on players who were actually successful veterans in the league. Detroit picked up young players who only have “potential” because of when they were drafted. Obviously it’s easy to tell which team was going to have more success. I don’t understand how some of these GMs don’t have much common sense thinking
Im fine with punting our cap space to next year. If our vets werent hurt we wouldnt look nearly as pathetic. Meh rebuilds with no assets take a long time
Your post really helps add context to how bad the 9-73 Sixers were.
Detroit has won four (!!!) of their last 41 games. It’s crazy to grasp how bad that is. And they’d have to literally repeat their 4-37 stretch to finish 8-74 in an 82-game stretch.
As a diehard Kings fan I don’t wish this level of suck on any fanbase. Piston fans deserve better.
First it’s a 9 win pace, and it wouldn’t be a new record that way, so op decided it’s a 8 win pace.
Worst
Hey op post about your own team. We dont need 20000 piston suck posts