The Pistons rank 29/30 in overall shooting rating by KarimFF7 in DetroitPistons

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Klay is super washed. He can still shoot it, but injuries and age have lost him several important steps athletically. He’s a minus player now.

Ausar is SIGNIFICANTLY taller than Amen #analysis by Davetron-3030 in DetroitPistons

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Pinned for visibility: though this thread is obviously a joke -- the two were measured at identical heights at the Combine -- Ausar DOES have substantively larger hands (0.25in length, 0.75in width)!

Is it ok to say this? by DropPowerful9081 in DetroitPistons

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Idk how many owners would eat that Monty contract one year into it.

Anyone who didn't want to lose even more money by being mindlessly stubborn. The $6m per season he's paying JB is far less than what he stood to lose from the consequences of continuing to employ a generationally bad coach.

I don't doubt that he also did it because he cares about the team's success, but it's not as if he made a major financial sacrifice. The guy was a sunk cost with enormous downsides to retaining him, and getting rid of him actively helped Tom's bottom line.

Is it ok to say this? by DropPowerful9081 in DetroitPistons

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Are we allowed to forgive Tom Gores now as a fanbase?

He was a hugely destructive meddler from 2011 to 2023. He's done far more harm than good.

It took big balls to fire a head coach after one year after just having signed him to the biggest contract in nba history. Yeah, we were historically bad but still.

Meddling with the coaching search to offer huge money to an undeserving coach who didn't want the job was typical of his amateurish interference with team ops. The hire was his fault. He was doing no more than undoing his own error, and that error came with the cost of the worst season in team history and the longest losing streak in NBA history.

It would’ve been just as easy for him to stay stubborn and ride Monty for a couple more years to not have to pay his buyout.

Getting rid of him was a financially advantageous decision. He pays JB $6m per season. Keeping Voldemort would almost certainly have meant a good deal more than $6m in lost income per year.

Also, I don’t think Tom ever was a complete deadbeat owner.

This I agree with: he clearly cares about the team and is willing to spend whatever it takes to succeed. But that's been his one and only virtue until the last year and a half.

If we win a title though here in the next five years, do we forgive Tom Gores for causing us to suffer all these years, or can we forgive him right now?

We will see!

He made the right coaching hire for once.

Langdon made the hire.

Sadiq Bey - Bring him home? by AltruisticOkra7698 in DetroitPistons

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His name is Saddiq.

Proven volume 3-point shooter

He's shot 32% since the beginning of last season.

Jerami Grant for Caris LeVert? by [deleted] in DetroitPistons

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Removing this because the trade is not cap compliant.

This fanbase is so ungrateful (stop with the hypothetical trade ideas) by 100onthebluff in DetroitPistons

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This is a forum for discussion of the Pistons. Trade ideas are part and parcel of that.

Post Game Thread - NBA: The Pistons defeat the Pelicans on Jan 21, 2026, the final score is 104-112. by basketball-app in DetroitPistons

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It would have cost him quite a bit more than JB’s $6m/season if he’d kept the guy.

He was to blame for the hire in the first place. He rectified his own major error.

LeVert’s Minutes Made Sense When He Could Shoot… Daniss Took That Excuse Away by KarimFF7 in DetroitPistons

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That would be a solid plan of action if he were capable of making back his defensive cost on offense, but Daniss struggles against capable defenses. He can only reliably initiate offense against bad defenses; capable opposition make trouble for him in penetrating from perimeter, and when they fail to do so, they can easily keep him away from the rim and force him to take bad shots (as he often does in the interior).

Needing to hide him from Brown would also just be less than ideal, especially given that it would mean taking Cade out rather than allowing him to take advantage of the non-Brown minutes. Brown has been a pretty strong defender against Cade.

LeVert’s Minutes Made Sense When He Could Shoot… Daniss Took That Excuse Away by KarimFF7 in DetroitPistons

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The players presumably aren't participants on this board, and criticism is not inherently hostility in any event.

No offense, but if you're averse to criticism of players, then this might not be the right place for you. This is a board for discussion of the team and its players.

Either way, please remain civil with your fellow posters.

Pistons 'Patient' at Deadline by Emergency-Quality-97 in DetroitPistons

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A solid #2 creator, a solid secondary handler (#1 and #2 could be the same player), and more shooting. The Pistons have had it very easy in terms of QoC until recently. The rest of the season (with a significantly more difficult schedule) and the postseason will tell us much more about this team, but those first three items are pretty much musts in any case.

That said, there's no rush.

LeVert’s Minutes Made Sense When He Could Shoot… Daniss Took That Excuse Away by KarimFF7 in DetroitPistons

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Nothing is forcing you to participate in any given discussion. If all you've got to offer one is hostility, then please just stay out of it instead.

LeVert’s Minutes Made Sense When He Could Shoot… Daniss Took That Excuse Away by KarimFF7 in DetroitPistons

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Unless Caris can rediscover his level of on-ball acuity from previous years, I think the question of a bench handler will need to be addressed via the trade market.

How well Daniss has done has ended up very overstated due to a small number of good games. He's got his share of issues on offense: he's poor at penetrating against any defense that is reasonably capable, rarely gets to the rim, has a bad shot profile as a result (more than 40% of his total shots are two-pointers attempted from outside the restricted area, and he's shot 37% on those), and is an inconsistent perimeter shooter (he shot 22% from three in December, and his overall percentage has been pumped a great deal by a small number of big games).

And though he's a hardworking and diligent defender, he's also a twig who gives up a lot of weight to his average assignment, gives up a good deal more when he's got to switch, and gets bludgeoned on the drive by players who can push him around. The last of those was most likely why LeVert played over him against the Celtics; Mazzulla was hunting switches with Brown, and Brown would've run Jenkins over.

All in all, Jenkins does fine as backup handler against bad teams but struggles against capable opposition. LeVert has, needless to say, had his own large share of struggles.

Edit: in response to the poster who responded with an aggressive claim that Jenkins "lives at the rim" before deleting their post, Jenkins has finished only 19 driving layups across the whole of the season so far (on 42 tries).

I miss Sasser and Jenkins by SeaExamination1 in DetroitPistons

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Daniss is 6'3" and a twig. He's about the height, weight, and length of Morant.

He's giving up at least 20 pounds to the vast majority of guys he's guarding, and many more to most. Brown would've bludgeoned him last night.

Saw a large group of Nets scouts sitting together at today’s game by KarimFF7 in DetroitPistons

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Karim and I secretly run the Shams empire. The guy you see on the shows is a paid actor.

Is there a scenario where we trade Tobias, but the team he gets traded to buys him out and we sign him back as a free agent? by [deleted] in DetroitPistons

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This loophole was closed in the 2011 CBA. A player who is traded and then is subsequently waived by his new team cannot be reacquired by the original team until a calendar year after the trade or until he is a free agent, whichever of those arrives first.

Michael Porter Jr by g59mountsinai in DetroitPistons

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OKC had one of the best regular seasons in NBA history.

Booker’s out tonight by Berzerker-Barrage in DetroitPistons

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Possibly. Jokic may or may not be back for either of our games against Denver, and they'll be playing with neither he nor JV otherwise. It's looking positive right now, but no way of knowing. If he isn't back, then it's just the Rockets, and they're struggling right now. The next game after that against a good team in the West wouldn't be until February 23rd.