Pelicans Insider BREAKS DOWN Detroit Pistons New Hire!

Pelicans Insider BREAKS DOWN Detroit Pistons New Hire!

we do have real here and I wanted to be able to get her perspective on what to expect from Tran Landon are you with us yes I am how y’all doing hey I’m doing good I’m doing good thank you for giving us your time this morning well you guys already know trean Lon is now the president of basketball operation uh title for the Detroit Pistons with the Pelicans he was their GM and we’re all wondering what are we to expect from trean langon here with the Detroit Pistons I feel like tras is an interesting guy but in a mysterious way you know like I feel like he was here this whole time and we didn’t know a ton about him but a lot of that is because he was um working with David Griffin and David Griffin is the the face and the mouthpiece of the front office you know so we didn’t hear from Tran a whole lot and um in the in the one time that I was able to actually talk to Tran he expressed to me that he enjoys that he’s like if Griff wants to do that that’s fine I’ll just hang in the back you know what I mean so he put his head down get to work you know doing whatever he’s doing but yeah he I don’t know if you guys know a lot about David Griffin but he likes to be in the front so tron’s like cool yeah go ahead but I do find that funny that he’s changed his bio already because he he’s more of a Twitter lurker he doesn’t tweet he doesn’t like a whole lot so it’s funny that he went on there and uh changed his bio real quick oh man oh man so with treas and Lon obviously one of the biggest things that a lot of Pistons fans are wondering right now is this aspect of uh potential Brandon Ingram trade obviously in our world is we’re hearing it from the perspective that we want to hear it but in your world what are you hearing about Brandon Ingram is Detroit one of those teams that you hear as a potential trade uh candidate for Brandon Ingram or are you hearing other things um it’s it’s mostly fan speculation at this point I think there are a handful of people because I’m not credential let me start there right um so there’s a lot of people in in a fan base who are you know trade machine connoisseur if you and um they’re looking at you know Detroit’s number five pick or whatever have you plus jayen Duren or something like that but you you kind of have to wonder as a Pelicans fan is this guy even available is the number five pick even available um do the do the Pistons want to give Brandon Ingram um you know the money he’s looking for do they want to give him a Max contract and things like that so um you know there’s a lot of inner workings that we as fans don’t necessarily uh understand in terms of contracts and people just think you can plug in the machine and get whoever and everything’s all good but you know it doesn’t necessarily work like that and then you know obviously they have the the connection with um you know their agents and things like that but um you know as far as I know Brandon Ingram wanted to stay here but he had a very ugly outing in the playoffs and I just don’t know if the pans can continue to go down that road building around him and Zion Williamson because you basically got two guys who are just two-point threats because Brandon refuses to shoot the three so it’s it’s been tough but it’s it’s been five years be seeing the same thing either somebody’s Hur and missing or they do play together and they look good but then they blow a dozen double digit leads and it’s just they’re not progressing the way they should and the western conference isn’t allowing for them to have more time to grow you know like you got to go now so bi may be on his way out just because of that yeah R Matt broer here it’s really nice to meet you and thank you so much for coming on I want to ask you about trasan langon again real quick um because I know he he was in the general manager role in New Orleans he now moving over to president of basketball operations in his role with the Pelicans what type of general manager was he and I asked that is he someone we can expect to uh you know dominate through the draft or is he Savvy making deals in the free agency market whether it’s negotiating with agents or with other teams what type of leader is he um or that we can expect here in Detroit so here’s where it gets tricky right because I was bringing up David Griffin and every there’s so many people around the league who refer David Griffin as the Pelicans general manager they don’t even know that tra and langon was the general manager like that’s how behind the scenes he was so a lot of deals when we talk about deals um either potential deals or deals that we made in the past everyone refers to oh well if Griffin had done this if Griffin had done that and I’m stuck wondering how much of this stuff has Tran Langan himself actually done um and because I’m not you know I don’t have so many like sources and things of that nature it’s hard to tell what he’s done but as a group group right as a group the Pelicans front office between TR and langon and SW cash U shout out to the Detroit shop right and in trasan langon um there’s the way that they operated as a unit because I’m not sure if it’s just trasan but the way that they operated as a unit they won’t make a deal if they feel like they’re going to lose that deal so there’s a lot of times at the trade deadline we just didn’t do anything and from a fan perspective you’re like man you know Dallas went out there and got X Y and Z and we just didn’t do anything we’re sitting on our hands and blah blah blah well that’s not necessarily the case they’re poking around they’re trying to make deals and if the deal that they want isn’t there they’re absolutely not going to make any move and so then as a fan you’re like man these guys don’t do anything you know but I think that they they’re just more of a um you know play better safe than sorry more of like a conservative front office and again can’t necessarily say that was just trasan but as trasan being the general manager in his tenure here that’s the way they operated as far as um trades go like when we got CJ McCullum CJ requested a trade it and he orchestrated for himself to come to the Pelicans I don’t necessarily know if we would have gone out and got a somewhat of a big fish like that had he not specifically wanted to come here that is that how you will that’s that’s a really interesting take because there’s a lot of moves out there that we we especially as Detroit fans we want anything good people who cover it people who watch it we ofic have made and we will thatly to our guy so it’s interesting to hear that perspective that maybe some of those moves weren’t all him now given the situation or the position that the Pelicans in and believe me I would I would trade spots with them in a heartbeat I would I would trade rosters in a heartbeat um how confident are you that trean Lon is a guy that’s going to come to Detroit and and really um kind of have some of the same success here that we’ve seen the Pelicans enjoy um over the last few years cuz I like I like a lot of their players we were talking about it earlier like we would we would take give us if we miss out on Ingram you know hey Naj Marshall CJ Jones Murphy like I’m like basically anybody oh I gotta tell y’all Y don’t get your hopes up for herb Jones right don’t get your hopes up for T you’re not gonna let him go not happening it’s not happen it’s not happening but I I will say nii nii is a he’s a unrestricted free agent I believe so he’s a guy who you could see potentially you know getting a bag this offseason so good luck to him man he’s he’s a great guy um undrafted came in and and did his work and now he’s getting ready to get paid this summer I’m sure so um but I think that so the guy who’s getting promoted in traan language place his name is Bryson Graham he’s been with the Pelicans for over a decade he started as literally as an intern and now he’s expected to be promoted to the GM and he was their assistant GM they had two assistant GMS one of them was more of a um you know contract statistical guy and then Bryson was uh more of a draft guy more of a Scout guy so um Bryson was more responsible for finding the the gems in the draft like herb Jones who was you know a second round pick number 35 now he’s first team NBA all defense in his third season and in the league so um Bryson had the talent of finding those you know those gems like that now how much of that can we attribute to Tran I don’t know we give Tran credit for listening to Bryson right but which of these guys did did Tran find did he find Trey Murphy over at Virginia you know like it’s it’s hard to tell exactly what his fingerprint has been on things because he’s such a quiet and reserved guy working behind someone who keeps jumping in front the camera like David Griffin it’s almost like um uh what sh Knight was saying about coming death row you know what I mean like if you don’t want if you don’t want the president of basketball Ops on all the press conferences you know instead of the general manager doing it come come over on this side if you don’t like that kind of thing you know so it’ll be interesting for me to see what Tran brings to you guys’ organization but I think for him as a president of basketball operations if he’s not being the the president of Ops and the GM at the same time I think he’ll move out the way and let the GM operate as they need to but also like he’s not just going to completely move out of the way he’ll have his hand in things but I think that he’s just he’s a relaxed guy who get the job done but he’s not g to be um you know like a a stickler for certain things if that makes sense man yo that’s a lot of good information because we’re we’re sitting here like I said we’re waiting for this uh press conference get the opportunity to go on there and ask a few questions to Tran Lon and kind of get a feel for his philosophy uh as well as what he currently believes about the construction of the Detroit Pistons I just want just from an outside perspective okay and be easy H us what what is your take on what is your take on the Detroit Pistons right now the roster construction and uh the potential that this thing can get turned around well you know last season definitely wasn’t going to put myself through games during that uh that long losing streak um I don’t know how any of y’all were able to sit through that but just um I’m pulling the roster up here yeah I can’t imagine man I can’t imagine but I mean obviously like guys like Jaden Ivy I’m really high on him really high on Kade I think uh what he have some sort of like some sort of nagging injury or something last season that kept him off for a little while yeah he’s been dealing with some some we’ll call him nagging injuries they started Series yeah he he’s dealing with some injuries or was these last two years yeah I mean just just looking at the overall roster it doesn’t make sense to me why they were losing the way that they were losing like you you almost from the outside looking in you think there’s no way that these guys are even trying to win like how can you lose that many games in a row right but like it it it like are they tanking you know what I mean as as a fan personally I’m not a fan of tanking right so like I don’t know if you watching them I don’t know if you think okay well you know in the end this will be good because you still end up with the fifth pick you still didn’t end up with first right so when we when I found out that that happened actually made a video talking about how the Hawks won and I said if if there’s any Pistons fans listening to this I’m so sorry because I don’t understand how how the lottery Works to where you can see a team be 10th and in the play in and then end up with the first seed and then there’s a team like Detroit that won what 14 games and you get six I don’t get it I don’t get it it’s tough so I I know I’m a big um fan of of viewing things in a way where things can’t stay the same forever so the team is going to turn around it’s just a matter of how long will it take for that to happen how long will it take for them to be competitive again how many years until we at least see them back um you know either in the play in or maybe fighting for a top six spot that’s like that’s a big question and you just never really know because injuries can derail you the same way that they’ve been derailing the Pelicans you know like we have 49 wins and still ended up in the play WoW and and and our star player got hurt literally in a playin game that we shouldn’t have even been in but we didn’t take care of business so that just everything unravel from there so you can have a good you can have a relatively good season on paper and then things can still you know end up derailing you so hopefully the Pistons don’t have that problem hopefully when they do turn things around they can you know get back into to a competitive level and stay there but you just really never know in this league man you know what well thank you for giving us your time that’s uh it’s some good Insight man it was cool to hear the perspective from somebody else on these Detroit Pistons this thing started off with some hope and they never really like finished it man it it’s like when I it’s like when you go into like a Habachi and they put the garlic on the grill yeah it’s like yo it smells amazing and you’re waiting like bro you gonna are you gonna put the rice on are you putting the the steak on there and they just never do it’s like that’s what’s happened here over the last couple years so they started good the butter and the garlic is on the grill you got Cade here and then they just didn’t do anything else and it’s it’s it’s weird but I I hope that Tre and Lon brings some type of clarity and an actual NBA structure um to how the Detroit Pistons front office decides to operate when Troy Weaver was hired here we didn’t have a president of basketball operations uh title they didn’t give him that title though he was uh in that last year in OKC was actually the VP of President of uh the vice president of basketball operations so he had experience in that role but they told him and it’s it’s been reported via Omar sov for the Detroit Free Press that they were supposed to work as a tandem uh meaning I I get the sense that Troy was just kind of hey I suggest this and if the guys ahead of him or or kind of above him the hierarchy agreed then they were going to move move forward what I’m hoping with TR and Lon coming here now is that we operate a little bit more traditionally as it relates to the PBO and the GM being able to work together to really put together a team that can compete in this modern NBA so I appreciate you real um you want to tell the people where they can find your work and everything yeah for sure I think you mentioned it uh early on it’s real meyers.com that’s r m y RS and I also have a Pelicans podcast called PS and whistles definitely definitely thank you so much for the time and answering the questions I know you got to uh get in uh to the to the next j o as well but we appreciate you greatly from the Wake Up wward crew so thank you R yes thank you real thank you y’all have a good one hey you too you [Music]

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