Detroit Pistons beat reporter reacts to the Simone Fontecchio trade

Detroit Pistons beat reporter reacts to the Simone Fontecchio trade

So the the first trade that they had um was with the Utah Jazz and it was for Simone fanto I probably butchered that um but I’m hey we got the fento part right I’m still confused on whether it’s Simone or Simone but so just to breakdown the trade for

People maybe they live under a rock uh we traded the Jazz a 2024 second round pick Kevin Knox and the draft rights the Gabriel proed um I talked about this earlier this week so the second round pick is going to be a pretty good second round pick it’s

Washington’s this year so it’s probably going to be low 30s so we prayed that to Utah uh Gabriel PCA I don’t know if you’re too familiar with him he was a second run pick graphin stash playing over in Europe right now um who knows if

He’ll even come to the NBA I know he was in Vegas this past summer but he didn’t play um what are your overall thoughts on this trade because I feel like out of all the trades this to me was like oh we just got a guy for basically nothing I I

Think that so let me let me let me first put this one out so when I I put this trade out there on Facebook everybody was just like who who who is he who is he who is he who is he who is he and my thing is like don’t do that just

Go to YouTube and look him up if you got questions but in my overall thoughts of the trade I thought it made sense you got a guy that can provide spacing he’s younger than bogy he’s he’s younger than bogie but he’s older than a lot of the

Players on there and he’s already even though he’s only been in the NBA for two years he’s already a season basketball player he played over in Italian over Italian leagues um three-time Italian super Cup winner in the one time just a regular TI cup wi left a regular I don’t know but

Um he provides the shooting and the athleticism that they need and the fact that I think they made this trade with the intentions of signing him long term at the end of the season I thought it was a smart move I mean as as great as

Bonovich is the guy is up there he’s 35 going on 36 and he’s coming off an Achilles injury last year he missed the first 19 sorry sorry first 19 games of this season if I’m not mistaken want to say it’s not know I know it’s 18 he got he

Got cleared around 18 I think he still missed that next so I want to say 19 but anyway um you’re able to Pro you’re able to um get that shooting that athleticism and a guy that can put the ball on the floor and get to the rim we saw that

Yesterday against the Clippers so I think it was a smart move I I I I I truly do I think that this could be with with the way that he and also too another thing did you see how how they were running the floor with him they

Were just they were running it wasn’t no just no no Pace they were they was like almost like a track me so I’m curious to see how he jails with that group over these next 30 games and it was it was a smart trade it was time it was time to

Get rid of um both of them um bonovich it’s not getting any younger Burks was having a down year so solid move yeah I I thought I was like okay let me do my research because I’m I I don’t want to fall victim to the you

Know the who crowd like the Snoop Dog who like I I didn’t want to fall into that crowd right so I was like okay he’s 28 years old he’s only hold on one thing hold on one thing not the sound crazy y’all I know that Kevin Knox was in this

TR I just I just feel that Simone can fulfill what bonovich and Burks missed in the arbitr so sorry but I just want to clear that up oh no for sure for sure we’ll probably re we’ll probably sign him again this summer and trade him at

The who knows po porno uh so Simone is 28 years old so I was like okay’s he’s a little bit older he’s only played two years in the league I do remember when the Pistons played the Jazz in that crazy overtime game he was cooking the Pistons like straight up he was cooking

The Pistons and a lot of Pistons fans were like why would Utah just like dump him for basically nothing I was like well go look at their front Court they got Lorie Markin in they don’t really use John Collins and they just drafted uh a guy this year I can’t I keep

Forgetting his name I I don’t remember it was another power forward out of the draft this year I mean they were really loaded in the front court and I felt like he was a guy that Utah wasn’t really too attached with they’re like hey you know like our front court is you

Know pretty set for the foreseeable future um like overall I really like his game you mentioned him being able to put the ball on the floor you saw that yesterday it was evident um nothing against boan he was 34 boan could put the ball on the floor but he was really

Slow at doing it fio is just really like sneaky athletic like if you watch him you’d be like that guy’s not gonna do anything he’s like running in transition with Ivy he’s like keeping Pace with J Ivy it’s silky smooth yeah yeah he does um I I think

Some people were like you know he’s like boan and he plays a little bit bit of Defense um I think if you want to compare the two no disres ban was a traffic con uh Simone Simone at least tries out there I’m not saying he’s locked down by any means some people are

Saying oh he’s a lock down Defender no he’s not a lock down Defender but he’s passable like you could have him in the starting lineup and he could at least close out he could switch um there’s a clip that someone tagged me in of him like blocking Chad hrome like at least

He tries on defense and I I think that that was another thing that was really appealing with Troy Weaver and the Pistons is to try to guy that that’s younger you know maybe you possibly sign him um to a three-year deal maybe give him the Marvin baggley deal like a 3 for

36 deal which I think would be incredibly cheap for a guy that can shoot close to 40% from three yeah I believe it’s I believe it’s a it’s a it’s a lowrisk high reward move that they did by bringing him in here and now you again City have a 30 game

Sze to see whether you want to bring this guy back for real long term and it’ll be it’ll be interesting to see how he meses meshes in there with [Applause] [Applause] Them

This week on Pistons Talk Podcast, Anthony was joined by Kory Woods they were breaking down one of many Detroit Pistons trades that was made at the deadline. Kory gives his thoughts on the Simone Fontecchio deal.

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