This is part one of our conversation with James Edwards III, the Detroit Pistons beat writer for The Athletic, where we discuss the Detroit Pistons season thus far and the immediate future of this team after having possibly the worst start in NBA History and bordering on having the worst overall season in NBA History.
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9 Comments
This team needs to be discarded – the seoson is gone!!! Its a disaster, complete rebuild all over again. I remember alot of people praising weavers moves and he is a genius with all the moves he made over the last 2 years. Bunch of millionaire kids losing daily- bc they can!!! Ohh, and they do buy alot of pretty purses in every city they visit…
This man is a shill for the worst organization in sports. Don't often want anyone to lose their job but I hope when the pistons inevitably clean house he's not forgotten.
just hearing this guy talking about how the front office might be waiting to go after someone in free agency is absolutely infuriating. this isn't a case of "oh we just need one more piece to make the next step, we can be patient". this is the worst nba team of all time – in year 4 of a rebuild -and we might not win another game if we keep this roster as it is right now. i'm talking 2-80. i know edwards is just reporting what he hears but it's still frustrating.
troy weaver shouldn't be allowed to make roster changes tomorrow, let alone this summer. it's absurd. it's like if the 2008 lions let matt millen try to fix the team after 0-16 season. i'm sorry but this guy should have been gone 10 games ago and someone else should be starting to retool by now. gores seems completely disengaged.
also edwards is insinuating that it would be a bad idea to make a panic trade because "the seasons over"…..dude we might not win 4 games all season with this roster. do you understand the damage that would do to the players on this team and the franchise's reputation? i'm all for a "panic trade" but not because i think it will help us make the play-in or something….if we don't make a "panic trade" we might not win another game- 2-80.
changes need to be made now, and big ones.
The streak ends against Utah
how do you explain trading away bey and getting wiseman and bagley when you already had duren. And sure duren is injured now but its a freak injury no one could confidently expect to happen at the time when you traded for wiseman and bagley
-we are tanking
-we aren't making a move until offseason
-we are standing pat
-what needs to be done is killian and stewart off the team or extremely minimized roles
-FO wants a top draft pick
-FO doesn't care about wins this season
Ku, I am all for being critical when it's due but I have to push back. So you cry about trading Bruce Brown but then cry about keeping Burks? Guarantee you would be crying about trading away Burks if we did trade him last year… Just being real. I believe these players are marginal. I would say we should have kept Jerami Grant as he would have been a more impactful piece to what we were doing. A player worth crying for. 💀Edit: but I want to stand with you in saying players like Kelly Oubre would have been great gets that made sense. These losses are on Troy and Monty
Cade has been good over the past month. It’s important that we don’t lose track of that. The central plan is still the same. Not sure Troy will be able to bring it to fruition, but the table is set.
Jaden Ivey for Keldon Johnson. Who says no ?