I see a lot of doom and gloom here, so I want to ask you all something. This team is clearly not very good, which makes sense because the only piece we added from last year is Cade, who is coming off an injury. It is a young team without any healthy, legit veteran players.
The one way to speed up the process is by signing proven guys, like the Rockets did. They sunk a ton of money into Fred VanVleet, Dillon Brooks, and Jeff Green and are seeing results. Coming off a win against the Nuggets last night, they are 6-3 and have won six straight.
But would you rather be in their shoes? Do you honestly think that roster has a chance of doing anything in the playoffs? I don’t. And as for their future, Jalen Green went 1-13 in their win last night and Jabari Smith got 8 points. So what so the Rockets have to look forward to? A 1st round exit, I’d say.
So yeah, this season isn’t going to be fun for Pistons fans. But I hope that the young core will develop so that when the Pistons are ready to compete, they will be doing it with their core rather than mid FA signings who won’t go far.
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Call me delusional if you want but i still have hope for this season. There are still 71 games left and I feel there has been a bit of an overreaction.
I feel like some people saw the first 3 games and thought we were gonna be a play-in/low seed guaranteed and that is just not the case. I was expecting this to be a losing season no matter what but was hoping for at least 35 wins. maybe at this point I’ll pull back to 30 but I think this is still within reach.
We have a lot of injuries and multiple key players have been out because of this. We have Cade who is still only 22 and even though in his 3rd season it’s moreso his 2nd. Also, we’ve been dealing with our front loaded schedule with top teams and back to backs. The stones have been having a rough start and that’s what I expected. Though I will admit the ugliness of the Bulls game last night.
Despite all of this I am still cautiously optimistic, I am happy we didn’t make the free agent plunge like Houston. Sure they’re seeing immediate results but will it turn into any success for the long term and be more than just pointless numbers, i don’t know, but i feel like we’re doing it the right way. The Suns didn’t have a winning record until Books 6th season. It takes players years to get into the groove of the NBA. Rome wasn’t built in a day and I’m hopping these fellas are laying down some good foundational bricks.
Looking forward to that guy from the rockets sub that stalks r/pistons to start screenshooting and tagging people in the Houston sub again.
Shit let him . We buns right now
Free agents are going to pick living in Houston over Detroit every single time. Better weather and no state taxes = more money.
This sub is in denial even harder than the Lions one was, back when Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia still had support
This experiment is not working. You do not need 5 years to climb out of being the 15th seed. Fuck the “assets” the rebuild started with, this would be unacceptable if we were an expansion franchise.
Yes, I would rather be the Rockets. To say otherwise is just denial
Yall can keep hanging on to this “Rebuild” and loving every breathe Troy takes, but the dude has shit the fucking bed on making this team compete to not be last place.
While our record is depressing, I’m more upset that the Rockets are winning. Jalen Green is still ass though
Jalen Green has the second most minutes on a team that is 6-3 and has the second highest net rating on a team that is 6-3 and has the highest usage rate on a team that is 6-3.
Probably want to watch a recent Jalen Green game. The dude become a plus defender over one off season.
Obviously we would rather be good than bad.
This would make sense if Sengun/Jalen weren’t leading the Rockets in scoring lol
Rockets are giving heavy minutes to Jalen/Sengun/Jabari/Tari and still thriving
And most of the world thrashed the FVV/Dillon signings, now you’re telling me they are the sole reason Houston is winning?
Cmon
I think we are the East Rockets honestly. A team where our young guys show flashes but if you leave them to their own devices it’s mostly a dumpster fire. You bring the vets in that kind of fit what the young guys are missing and it feels a bit more coherent. We just haven’t had much of the vets part of that equation so far this year. Just take the minutes that Burks plays so far this season as a sample.
The point of the Rockets is pretty much what we’re tying to do when healthy as well. Use vets to help get the team into a position to compete and see what the young guys are doing in actual meaningful games with a coherent roster around them.