I Kinda Liked the Detroit Pistons Trade Deadline

I Kinda Liked the Detroit Pistons Trade Deadline

If you look across Pistons land right now people are upset the pitchforks are out unequivocally I it’s not quite like DEFCON 5 or Defcon one whichever one is worse because everything they did was kind of on the margins right we didn’t even go get a guy like Tobias Harris

Which is good that we didn’t it would have been insane if we did what he’s doing in Philadelphia is way more important than what his mission would be in Detroit like especially with no Joel embiid like they need Tobias Harris I’m very happy darl Mor didn’t do that right

Everything else though was just kind of like a oh I guess that’s fun like oh I guess I so it just kind of was it was boring you know what I saw I saw what we’ve been waiting for all year which was a team from the front office down to

Just like operate like an actual basketball team how many years have we and we’ll get to the bad stuff this is I’m not very happy about this deadline but let’s start with the good stuff how many years have we looked at the Pistons even under Troy Weaver’s watch and they

Had actual that they could sell off and they just didn’t for some inexplicable reason they just didn’t they were like no no no we’re actually going to hold on to this value and we think it’s going to approve appreciate over time all the time constantly and if nothing else this was the closest

Pistons fans that we could ever get to Troy Weaver being in his like 2018 Cavs at the deadline era by the way the Pistons have what like seven wins on the season this season five of them have come on the day that either the Pistons or the team that they’re playing have

Made a trade huh of those five wins I think three of them were us making a trade and then I swear we played the Knicks or the Raptors on the day of the OG trade I think it was the Raptors but 5-0 when the Pistons or the team they’re

Playing made a trade this year it’s a damn shame the trade deadline is come and gone cuz that means that the Pistons are not guaranteed to win a game the rest of the season or at least guaranteed to have the opportunity to which is too bad but everything that

Detroit was doing especially early on with the uh uh fonio trade in Utah it felt like they were operating on the margins in a way that was positioning themselves for what they’ve always done under Troy Weaver’s watch this valuing of cap space as if it’s going to

Be the end all be all this will be what drives us this will be what gets us out of the hole it’s it’s Blind Faith that you’re going to be able to do something with that money and it extends your timeline in the chair with with uh upper

Management and with even with the fans because it’s like you can point to this really big shiny number and say this is what we’re going into the summer with is this number right here you can’t con Vin me that they’re not going to do something dumb with that is the thing

Because what ends up happening is you give Joe Harris $20 million just to find out that we don’t actually like to play him that much and his knees also don’t really work and when he does play in the games it’s like he doesn’t really he’s not really Joe Harris anymore he’s just

Not so you gave that guy a bunch of money and then he’s not on the team anymore he’s gone inexplicably as quickly as he arrived he was gone I’m not going to get mad retro retroactively about the Jeremy Grant contract that worked that whole relationship worked in Detroit’s benefit whatever ever but at

The time we were all kind of like what like huh hey the Market’s the market you had to pay him something right if we didn’t pay him that Denver was literally going to give him the exact same contract would it have made more sense for Denver one would argue it would have

So let’s go down some of these with some of these trades I was very famously annoyed at the thing that kicked all of this off which was like a month ago at this point Marvin bagler going to Washington I was upset that like you know you have this Log Jam up front with

A bunch of bigs not Mo most of them can’t play Marvin bag actually kind of proving wait is he kind of an NBA player now like yeah one of the only dudes on the team who actually knew his role and like understood his value and when he

Was at his best traded him okay you got denil galinari but not on the team anymore by the way and Mike muscala and even though I’ve kind of given up on watching the Pistons a little bit they tell me Mike muscala has been playing well for Detroit so we’ll see right but

Then we move forward oh also isaah livers was gone so the Pistons trade Monte Morris to Minnesota we get Shake Milton and Troy Brown and a 2020 23 I’m sorry a 2030 second round pick okay cool stock the cover with second round picks Troy I don’t know what what’s going on

With Shake Milton these days he like went to Minnesota and they were like don’t shoot the ball I swear to God if you shoot the ball you’re off this team they’ll just like yank him I don’t know what’s going on with that Troy brown two years ago I would have been like whoa

Now I’m just like okay body if nothing else NBA player to get us through the rest of the season because it’s also just to derail myself for a second the Pistons weren’t going to do anything at the deadline that fixed this there is nothing that Detroit could have done at

The at the deadline to like make this better or to make the bleeding stop all they could do is look to the Future and figure out what do we want to achieve in six months and how can we position ourselves now to get there that’s what

They had to do and I think that’s what they did a good job doing whatever the plan ends up being and it’s clear that they’re just like going to offer miles bur just a ton of money it’s a completely different conversation but it’s clear that they want to do

Something like that right Tobias SS whoever it ends up being like that’s what they want to do and if that doesn’t work what what’s Plan B I first of all I don’t believe they have one but what it will end up being is like trade for a disgruntled star maybe that’s when they

Swoop in on like dejonte Murray maybe that’s when they’re like Trey young like what is he up to and they’re like here’s assar Thompson and Jade ivy have fun with Jade iy and Deonte Murray by the way here’s like assar Thompson J I’m just throwing out there right

That’s what their plan B is probably going to be and it’s going to suck and we’re all going to hate it yeah then we got fonio from Utah for like nothing for like nothing at all that was actually like a whoa it had the trappings of is Tom gors and

AR telum like are they out of the kitchen for this deadline and they’re just going to let Troy Weaver do Troy Weaver because I know that it’s easy to look at a lot of his moves and be like no he actually doesn’t know how to make trades like look at the wisman

Deal that did not work at all but fono was the guy who I don’t know if you guys remember we played the Jazz like two and a half months ago three months ago and honest to God for the first time in like five or six years an a guy walked onto

An NBA court I had no idea who he was I couldn’t clock him at all I didn’t recognize his number didn’t recognize his haircut nothing about him I was like I have no idea who this guy is guess who it was it’s fonio he ended up by the end

Of that game dude he was giving us buckets and I was like right I was like who the hell is this guy not only do I not know who he is but he’s really good well we have him now he’s on our team now little floor

Spacer I like it I’m I’m Bard with it fun little move again on the margins oh also I say we gave him up for nothing Kevin Knox was in the deal so I guess yes we did give him up for nothing Kevin Knox yeah I put together a few solid

Games this Year you guys let me know about it every single time you see that Kevin Knox game I did every single time by the way but I stand by what the overall sentiment of his career is which is just like stop playing basketball go do something else please Pistons get

Daniel house from Philadelphia and then ended up waving him and so there was like two hours where I was like oh my god the guy who was so horny that he almost compromised the NBA bubble in Disney is on our team I like it so this original trade comes

Out that Alec Burks gets traded to New York and what was it it was like Quinton Grimes and 2 seconds is what it was was that it was that part of it and we were all like oh my God Quinton Grimes was actually a member of the Motown Noah

All-Star team his rookie year before he even played a game the 2021 2022 Motown Noah Allstar team coached by Avery Johnson we had Kate Cunningham Luke Canard miles Bridges Nick Claxton Isaiah Stewart Kobe white Colin Sexton Jeff Green ran Holmes NS Reed had some Vision on that one Quinton Grimes Dwight Powell

And Josh Christopher you get Quinton Grimes for Alec Burks we’re all like whoa like that’s a good deal and then W like really buries the lead and it’s like actually bogdanovich is in this trade too and you’re like what you’re like huh and he’s like yeah Malachi Flynn Ryan Archie deakino and Evan

Forier are also going to Detroit this is where people really Drew exception because it’s like so we didn’t get a first for bogdanovich not only did we just not get a first for bogdanovich when we were told a year ago that somebody offered two first rounders for

Bogdanovich but the Knicks also and I have this screenshotted here the Knicks were also able to acquire ogan anobi buan bogdanovic bonovich Alec Burks and precious auua without giving up a single first round pick if I was just a general NBA if I wasn’t a Pistons fan I didn’t

Have skin in any of these trades happen not a raptor fan not a Knicks fan I’m pissed looking at this I’m pissed being like why did teams let this happen so imagine how I feel being one of the teams to have let this happen I’m disgusted by it but I think what’s also

True is if they could have traded bogdanovich for a first don’t you think they would have done it that’s what bothers me is the people who are like this is basketball negligence like if you couldn’t you wanted to get something for him and even if half of the guys

They traded for they didn’t even end up keeping the same way that with Daniel house it’s like oh my God for like two hours for like two hours I’m like explaining to my girlfriend no no no Ryan Archie diako he’s played in like 20 straight games and he hasn’t scored a

Point no no no no no Ryan Arch diako like uh game-winning assist to Chris Jenkins in the national championship game against North Carolina ever heard of him passed Chris Jenkins the ball very famously in that moment ever heard of him and then like two hours later not on the team anymore oh

Okay by Ryan Archie Yono but again like Troy wasn’t like I have this one offer on the table and I could get a first or I could just do this other deal and like he didn’t do that everything they did believe it or not was probably

Calculated in some sort of a way that again they’re just trying to position themselves for what they want to do in June and what they want to do in July even if we end up hating that even if we don’t agree with it I kind of like what

Detroit did cuz they didn’t go and try to do the disgruntled star thing too early I would argue do we even know if they have enough to be doing that that was the Pistons trade deadline kind of broke my heart kind of pissed me off but they weren’t going to immediately fix anything

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the detroit pistons trade deadline has come and gone — and their plan for the future is already clear. (spoiler alert: i hate it)

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