Official Detroit Pistons thread

[froot loops]

I think tanking for 4 straight years is dumb and that's what the Sixers did. The Pistons have done it for two years and that's enough.

[ghandi]

I think tanking for 4 straight years is dumb and that's what the Sixers did. The Pistons have done it for two years and that's enough.

The problem is that it tells the fans "we are not trying to win but we will still take your money"...IT would be nice if every team tries to put out the best team it can on the court, but that doesn't seem to be the case as often anymore.

[chemiclord]

I think tanking for 4 straight years is dumb and that's what the Sixers did. The Pistons have done it for two years and that's enough.

That's really the issue. It's one thing to tank with a young team that you're trying to build up. To intentionally tank for that many years regardless of the talent you acquire is insanity.

[Cody_Russell]

I expect the Pistons to accelerate their competitiveness starting next season. Time to win with Cade.

NBA lottery is on Tuesday night FYI.

The Pistons were only a couple moves from contending, keep Middleton and draft Giannis.

Spencer Dinwiddie! Very nice game 6 and 7 for the Mavs.

Oof the Phoenix Suns. Complete no show in game 7.

[whatever_gong82]

I expect the Pistons to accelerate their competitiveness starting next season. Time to win with Cade.

NBA lottery is on Tuesday night FYI.



Spencer Dinwiddie! Very nice game 6 and 7 for the Mavs.

Oof the Phoenix Suns. Complete no show in game 7.

Amazing that the 2 teams playing in last year's NBA Finals end up both getting blown out in Game 7's in the middle round.

[froot loops]

At least with the Bucks, they were down Middleton. The Suns,.ooof.

[Futureshock]

I think the process failed when the drafted Embiid. I know that sounds crazy but that guy is so much of a me player I think those other top picks never really developed. I'll never know for sure but no one who plays with him seems to grow.

I'm also biased. I never liked him after his little beef with Drummond.

Agree with all that man. But it showed the mental fragility of both. Coward and Bully are sides of the same coin. No wonder he doesn't understand how to win.

All sports are the difference between what each side "scores" If you give up as much as you score, what good are you.

I think tanking for 4 straight years is dumb and that's what the Sixers did. The Pistons have done it for two years and that's enough.

This I agree on. It is why I didn't have hope for them tanking this year. And also why I hope the Lions don't get themselves in a "tanking" position. At some point you have to learn how to win. If not, WTF is it all about? 1-2 years? OK. More then that and you're eating your own crap basically.

[froot loops]

I don't think Embiid stunted any of the other players' development, I just don't think the players they picked were all that good. When we were growing up, lottery picks were much more fully formed players. Now, very few come into the league a finished product and most of the time you don't know what you have until the end of the first contract. The NBA is a league where you have to constantly work to improve your game even if you are a high lottery pick.

[Forsh]

The players they picked were great. Fultz was elite athletically, had a jumper, and the ideal mix of passing and scoring skills to play with Simmons. Fultz pre-draft was near exact what the Pistons should want beside Cade.

Simmons was incredible. He's taller than LeBron or Magic, but right up near them both in terms of IQ and feel for the game. Great athlete, incredible defender.

The problem was that they were flakes, cream puffs, whatever you want to call it ... which i guess is part of the package, so if you want to say they weren't any good ... whatever

[froot loops]

Fultz wasn't any good, Simmons is a different story, I'm not sure what's going on with him now, but I question the basketball IQ claim. He doesn't work on his game and hasn't really improved,.but he is really good defensively..

It gets back to my point that these guys are not fully formed as lottery picks. Like when you picked Duncan, Shaq, Ewing, Jordan, Hakeem, Robinson, etc.. If those guys are coming up in a draft, it makes a shit ton of sense to tank for a chance at them. Those guys were ready to go, you knew a hell of a lot more about them than you did Markelle Fultz. And it also gets back.to the 4 straight years of tanking, a couple.of those years aren't going to have a sure fire guy.

[Forsh]

Fultz was very good. He just wrecked his shoulder and it ruined him for awhile. He's actually still a very good backup pg who could still end up a good starter if he could stay healthy

[Futureshock]

I don't think Embiid stunted any of the other players' development, I just don't think the players they picked were all that good. When we were growing up, lottery picks were much more fully formed players. Now, very few come into the league a finished product and most of the time you don't know what you have until the end of the first contract. The NBA is a league where you have to constantly work to improve your game even if you are a high lottery pick.

Church!

[BJK]

Keeping my 🤞 for today.

[Cody_Russell]

Point being, Pistons are winning the NBA lottery tonight! Bring home the gold, awesome Pistons representative Rip Hamilton.

At minimum, please top 4.

[Da Geezer]

I do not recall any team that won the lottery the previous year changing their representative to the lottery.