Official Detroit Pistons thread

[Forsh]

Harris is ok. He's getting older, but hasn't been all that far from 50-40-90 in recent seasons

[froot loops]

This off-season has been much, much better than last year's trainwreck. A good deal to retain Fontecchio. They got 3 more shooters with Hardaway Jr., Beasley and Harris. They are one of the two teams left with cap space. They either have 21 million or 28 million depending on if they use an 8 million dollar trade exception. Using the cap space to take on assets didn't really materialize because there wasn't a lot of bad contracts to be off-loaded by other teams

Still some moves to be made because they will have to spend at least 5 million to get to the floor by opening night.

So what we will see this year is a much better offensive team that can shoot, but they are going to be defensively challenged to put it mildly The hope is Bickerstaff puts in a better defensive system and with better spacing the offense cuts down on turnovers. If you are efficient offensively and don't turn the ball over you can stay in games even if you are bad defensively. Ceiling is probably 30 wins but who knows. It would be nice to see logical progression.

[Forsh]

No way they still have 20 mill cap space after Tek, Beasley, THJ, and Harris

[froot loops]

Yeah they do.

[Forsh]

Ahhhhhh ok that makes more sense if they wait to sign Tek. His cap number will go way up after he signs

[froot loops]

They just claimed Bball Paul Reid off waivers from the Sixers. Having an actual functioning front office is crazy.

[Forsh]

Paul Reed is good! He's a per minute beast

[froot loops]

It's a good pickup considering the slim pickings out there for backup bigs. And he can shoot!

[chemiclord]

Could this team be developing something like an actual strategic identity?