NBA Playoffs

[JennetteMcCurdy]

I still think it’s ridiculous to think we should blow it up and wade through all the crap we just did the last 4 years. We are certainly in need of some more talent but we got some pieces, most on very inexpensive rookie deals. Cade is an AllStar maybe even next year. Ausar is an amazing defender. Fontecchio isn’t spectacular but solid. Same w Stewart. Maybe the latter two are rotation players but teams need that too.

Someday, these awesome players could lead us to thirty wins!

(Seriously, blow it up. We are the worst.)

Washington is worse than us. Regardless, I’m clearly in the “ Let’s see what we can add w $70M” camp.

That will be our slogan next year….

Pistons ‘25 - We’re better than Washington!

[Snakebites]

I really do hope we’re able to leverage that cap space into something viable.

I feel like there’s a decently long history of us not doing that though.

In 2001 we used it to get Jon Barry and Clifford Robinson. That was solid- neither of those guys were there when we won it all but they were solid transitional pieces. The helped us get from 32 to 50 wins.

We’re starting at a lower starting point then that team was though.

[SuperBad]

I don’t want to blow it up, I can give it one more year before that, but if they want to trade everyone but Cade, Duran, and Thompson then go for it. But I think we just need to swing big for one all star level player, trade or free agency. Then fill the the rest of the cap space with Fontechio, Kyle Anderson, Lonnie Walker. Add those three the big fish, and a draft pick, I think we will make a significant jump, maybe the play in

[zeebneeb]

While watching the games tonight I realized something.

I can remember thinking "cannot wait until the Pistons are back in the playoffs, and see what Grant Hill can do."

This hasn't even occurred to me with this current team.

Its almost as if they play in a different league. They are so bad, I have separated the product on the floor. It blew my mind.

[LondonWolf91]

We shouldn't try to sign Kyle Anderson

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But in all seriousness, he is too much of a sieve on defense and is mostly effective when initiating offense which is fine as a guy off the bench on a playoff team, less nice as a starter for a bottom of the league team.

Twelves fan here who also follows the Pistons with a keen eye.

Your observation of Kyle Anderson is incorrect. He is an incredibly good defender and a playmaker. He just can’t shoot and is sometimes a liability on offense if paired with Gobert.

Excellent player if he has 4 shooters around him.

He would be a good get for Detroit but as a Wolves fan, I would rather keep him.

[mattao313]

Lol I've totally given up on this team usually I get a little hyped for the draft but damn not this year. They seem so far away from being even average its sad. It's crazy we tried to build through the draft and have little to show from it SMH. We are literally just banking on luck at this point the front office and owner are god awful.

By far the worst franchise in basketball right now lmao.

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[JennetteMcCurdy]

Your observation of Kyle Anderson is incorrect. He is an incredibly good defender and a playmaker. He just can’t shoot and is sometimes a liability on offense if paired with Gobert.

Excellent player if he has 4 shooters around him.

How about if he has one?

Anderson shot 11-48 from three this season. That’s pretty much the definition of someone we shouldn’t pursue in free agency……

[Kalamazoo317]

We shouldn't try to sign Kyle Anderson

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But in all seriousness, he is too much of a sieve on defense and is mostly effective when initiating offense which is fine as a guy off the bench on a playoff team, less nice as a starter for a bottom of the league team.

Twelves fan here who also follows the Pistons with a keen eye.

Your observation of Kyle Anderson is incorrect. He is an incredibly good defender and a playmaker. He just can’t shoot and is sometimes a liability on offense if paired with Gobert.

Excellent player if he has 4 shooters around him.

He would be a good get for Detroit but as a Wolves fan, I would rather keep him.

Yeah, I figured that y'all are going to have to lose out on someone due to the overall roster expense and that if we could get a good role player as a result, all the better. Any ideas of "they'll trade KAT for second apron relief after being blown out by Denver" is gone at this point. Your Wolves look like the favorite to win it all, imo.

[flow]

We shouldn't try to sign Kyle Anderson

Fixed

But in all seriousness, he is too much of a sieve on defense and is mostly effective when initiating offense which is fine as a guy off the bench on a playoff team, less nice as a starter for a bottom of the league team.

Twelves fan here who also follows the Pistons with a keen eye.

Your observation of Kyle Anderson is incorrect. He is an incredibly good defender and a playmaker. He just can’t shoot and is sometimes a liability on offense if paired with Gobert.

Excellent player if he has 4 shooters around him.

He would be a good get for Detroit but as a Wolves fan, I would rather keep him.

We have a severe lack of shooting. That's the problem.

[MotownMadness]

Hali is so aggressive out there

[Mr Peanut]

Hali is so aggressive out there

He's good but he's no Killian Hayes.

[Snakebites]

Denver bounces back with a blowout win in Minnesota.

They’re still at a disadvantage in the series- still need to win another in Minny to stand any chance. But it’s the response you’d need to see after they got crushed in game 2.

Ending to Indy/NY was pretty epic.

[Cowology]

Jokic casually drops 35 pts (15-26) on the 4x DPOY and that super elite team D we were praising after the first couple of games. All tied up.

[Snakebites]

Jokic casually drops 35 pts (15-26) on the 4x DPOY and that super elite team D we were praising after the first couple of games. All tied up.

We collectively overreact to things like that all the time.

The Nuggets have shown incredible resilience throughout the last couple of seasons but people were still talking about them like a eulogy.

I was guilty of it too.

[Cowology]

Jokic casually drops 35 pts (15-26) on the 4x DPOY and that super elite team D we were praising after the first couple of games. All tied up.

We collectively overreact to things like that all the time.

The Nuggets have shown incredible resilience throughout the last couple of seasons but people were still talking about them like a eulogy.

I was guilty of it too.

In fairness, they looked thoroughly disheveled in dropping their first 2 games at home. It would have felt different if they were heading home for games 3 & 4, but they got their asses handed to them in their own building. Twice.

[Kalamazoo317]

And they looked so hopeless in that game 2. Glad they came back to make it a series, though.

[MortSahlfan]

Draymond Green for the next two TNT games with the crew? 5 guys is way too much, and Inside the NBA is fine as it is.... And almost always better than the game itself.

[MotownMadness]

Missed FTs have killed Dallas late

[MortSahlfan]

Free throws cost them the game.
So many injured guys..

[Cowology]

Jokic is not from this planet.

The game isn't even over yet and again he's just taking it right to the 4x DPOY like he's not even there. 40 pts, 13 assists, 7 rebounds and he's a ridiculous 15-21. He just drained a cold blooded 3 with time expiring and Gobert challenging the shot and he made it look easy.