Why Are the Detroit Pistons SO BAD?

Why Are the Detroit Pistons SO BAD?

Great battle I can’t believe that team just lost 28 games in a row have to be real about where we are nobody wants something like this attached to them zuin the last time the Pistons won a game Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift barely made it official um there’s nothing positive about this situation

Right now that we put ourselves in the bottom line is it’s it’s it’s my job it’s my responsibility it weighs on us every day the Pistons aren’t just bad they’re Ultra bad historically bad and their run of incompetence will be studied by basketball historians for generations to

Come recently against the Utah Jazz the Pistons lit up the scoreboard with 148 points and still lost that was in the midst of a record shattering losing streak let’s find out how we got here why the Detroit Pistons are so bad is coming up right after this

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The free upside app from the link below and use my promo code five points and get an extra 25 cents back for every gallon on your first tank of gas the Detroit Pistons were once the toughest most hard-nosed teams in basketball not just once but twice the bad boy Pistons

Of the late 80s weren’t just NBA villains they were Juggernauts and they famously put Michael Jordan in hell and a decade and a half later they returned to the throne as NBA champion when they upset the hated Lakers those days are gone while the Detroit Lions have

Ascended to the upper echelon of the NFL the Pistons have plummeted to the seller of the NBA if you woke up from a coma that started in the mid 2000s that would be your first sign that the order we once knew in this world has strayed far into chaos the only accomplishment these

2023 Pistons have achieved is a losing streak so prolonged that if you think about it long enough it’s kind of imp impressive 28 that’s how many games the Pistons lost in a row this is hard to believe but that losing streak tied a record set by the Philadelphia 76ers who

Lost 28 games across two seasons in 2014/2015 but here’s the difference the Sixers were actively trying to lose that was a team whose architect Sam hinky carefully designed a squad that was built to get railroaded like your mom after two martinis signing g-league players and cast off in hopes that they

Could land the top pick a process that surely paid off with at least a trip to the NBA finals right the Pistons are not trying to lose they’re in the midst of a rebuild sure but a rebuild that began several years ago three and a half to be

Exact they should be trending up at this point not hopelessly down the first step in their March towards utter suum took place in the 2020 NBA draft with the seventh overall pick the Pistons landed on 19 y old point guard Killian Hayes it’s always easy to play the hindsight

Game but if they were looking for a point guard with franchise altering potential they could have simply taken the next one off the board Tyrese halberton halberton believed he was going to be a piston and wanted to be a piston don’t believe me take a listen I

Told the Cavs and the Hawks don’t even don’t pick me please don’t pick me I thought the Pistons might and that’s kind of where I wanted to go Detroit passed up one of the best most Uber offici ient young point guards in the league for Hayes who’s accumulated a

Vorp NBA’s version of War of 2.5 that’s lower than anyone selected in either round of the 2020 draft Hayes is a capable Defender and he provides some value but not top 10 value this year he’s averaging 8.3 points per game on 41% shooting which is a career high and

Just 31% from three somehow this has been the best season of his four-year career Lady Luck blessed the Pistons with the top pick a year later in 2021 and they found themselves a star in Cade Cunningham but they could have had the guy picked five spots later Josh giddy

No I’m just kidding Cunningham was without a shadow of a doubt the right pick he’s averaged close to 20 points in his three-year career and unlike Hayes has actually generated a positive vorp the problem is not Kade Cunningham it’s that they haven’t built the pieces around him which goes to show you that

Even winning the lottery and picking the right guy doesn’t guarantee in the NBA you have to set them up for Success the Pistons simply don’t have a capable veteran with a positive winning experience the only members of their team with more than 5 years of NBA experience are Alec Burks Joe Harris and

Buan bogdanovich who’s played in just 15 games this year and was crucial in ending the losing streak against Toronto putting up 21 points in the nail-biting Victory Burks and Harris too have missed extensive time so whatever Sage wisdom they have to pass down to the Young Guns

Has rarely been done on the court what they expected to get out of Monte Morris well it had to be more than what they’re getting right now the seventhe point guard went to Detroit and has yet to hit the court suffering from a quad strain that’s going to sideline him well into

2024 the Pistons version of acquiring Talent outside of the draft has been taking on Reclamation projects former High picks who were Shed from their original teams like Josh McDaniel skin in 2022 the Pistons took a flyer on former second overall pick Marvin baggley the guy who was taken by the

Sacramento Kings one spot ahead of Luca donic it was a fairly complicated deal that involved seven players and four teams but essentially Sacramento and Detroit swapped baggley and Trey ly baggley has yet to move the needle in the Motor City while ly has become a key contributor for a playoff team in

Sacramento another sign that the world is probably going to end soon bagley’s numbers have all steadily dipped over his three partial seasons in Detroit minutes points per game and rebounds all gradually decreasing until they finally wither away into nothing it’s not just baggley the Pistons also figured they

Might be able to fix James wisan the former second overall pick of the Golden State Warriors here’s a quick rule of thumb if Steve Kerr can’t maximize a player’s potential your team won’t either I mean look at Jordan P when there’s no baddies court side diston general manager Troy Weaver didn’t give

A he still tried and here are the results wisman gets 14 minutes per game and averages 2.3 points and less than one total rebound whether it’s their own misses or another teams the 2023 Pistons have become a graveyard for draft mistakes baggley wisan and Kevin Knox

The former ninth overall pick of the New York Knicks in 2018 it’s far too early to tell whether their last two first round picks Jaden Ivory and AER their Thompson respectively will pan out into worthy selections but the problem is that they might not be able to maximize their potential when the situation

Around them is crumbling no useful veteran leadership to help them along and a head coach in Monty Williams who was the coach of the year in 2022 but appears to been run out of Phoenix for good reason and there’s more reason to think Williams is coaching himself out

Of a job in Detroit Beyond you know his record Williams appears unequipped at identify buying his five best players and making sure they’re on the court at the same time which is a pretty fundamental part of coaching basketball out of the 38 fivan lineups logging a

Minimum of 100 minutes on the court the Detroit Pistons primary five-headed attack hay Stewart Cunningham durran and Thompson sits at the 35th spot in net rating with a discouraging minus 10.1 I I think I might vomit Detroit’s fiveman lineup is the League’s worst in all three key categor ories net rating

Offensive rating and true shooting percentage essentially if the Five Guys you play the most have you sitting at the bottom of the NBA in three major categories don’t you think it’s time to shake things up it’s like a kid in a wheelchair doing stunts the kid is

Already in a wheelchair how much worse can it get Monte but let’s talk about what all those roster swings and misses have really translated to on the court ranking 27th among the 30 teams in offensive efficiency the Pistons managed to score an average of 110 points per 100 possessions conversely their

Defensive prowess positions them at the 28 spot conceding an average of 121 points in the same measure while their performance in preventing and making baskets leaves much to be desired it’s actually pretty crazy that the Pistons do not hold the honor of being the League’s worst team in overall scoring

Margin that titles falls upon the San Antonio Spurs who have Victor wanyama and should be much better the p Pistons hover Within Reach of the Charlotte Hornets who stand at minus 10.5 in points per 100 possession and I know what you’re thinking trailing the Hornets in any category means you eat

Dwayne Wade levels of ass and while that might be an astute observation it also suggests that maybe the Pistons aren’t as bad as their record indicates sure they suck but they don’t suck any more than the other awful terrible teams in the NBA I’m looking at you Wizards and

That in it of itself might be a small victory for a team that desperately needs one hang that up in the Raptors the only way out is likely through firing their general manager Troy Weaver who did assemble the big three in OKC but it looks like he brought nothing but

Bricks to the Motor City and of course to have to hope for the pingpong balls to fall in their favor for a second time in four years and they can draft Alex SAR or Nica toic who could be Darko michic all over again short of that

They’re going to be in for of the most prolonged hilariously painful rebuilds the NBA has ever seen why are the Detroit Pistons so bad it’s because the lions are good now it’s the only explanation until next time

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