HUGE CHANGES for the Detroit Pistons

HUGE CHANGES for the Detroit Pistons

I think it’s time to talk a little bit Sports we teased it earlier but a big big big NBA day so I think it’s best that Anon Wills is in today Pistons now have the Pistons now have the head coach M take it away how about it man it was the first guy they interviewed it’s the first guy we all mentioned on the show JB bicker staff we all was scratching our head why’ the Cavaliers let him go I mean he he took him he took him far yeah and this team was ready to get to the next step I guess ownership general manager in Cleveland thought maybe now I want to get somebody else and I forgot who even Cleveland brought in to be honest with you uh Kenny Atkinson Kenny Atkinson from uh the the Nets right yep from the Nets or or from the Warriors Golden State Golden State from the Warriors for so they bring him in I don’t know what he’s got that JB don’t have but I’m happy that the pist has got this guy this guy can work with a young team and now they signed a couple of uh veterans we’ll get to that in a minute but the Pistons today are a hell of a lot better than the pistols before they sign TR and langon that’s a fact before we get to the players that signed the deals that were signed cuz there were some deals and we will talk about that some familiar faces uh coming in as well first thought when you hear the hire andon Wells JB bicker staff you know he’s done in Cleveland first thought JB bicker staff he’s out the pitton coach go feels like when we got rid of Rick Carlile we get to that point Indiana feels like they are a team that’s ready to ascend and they want to win that Eastern Conference Championship now JB’s been all over you know he’s been all he’s been a interim coach three times so that tells you that they liked him where he was they found they had a problem they didn’t have an issue putting him in charge um when you look at his tenure at Cleveland he started off as a assistant head coach the bubble year he takes over was 11 games as an intern coach next season you know they’re under 500 but the last three seasons this is a a surging team above 500 it’s been able to figure out how to take their young talent and parlay that into playoff success this guy gets a raw deal and the Pistons take advantage of it this just totally feels like carile leaving the Pistons back in what 0304 yeah hey the last time don’t forget the last time they signed an ex Cavaliers head coach it was Chuck Daly yes it to let you know Daddy oh let’s see there we go let’s see what JB can do uh with this uh mly crew do they have a l beer we can steal too hopefully he can bring in some of that uh that would be nice yes it would daddy Rich’s skill and what he did with the Pistons in the 80s and the 90s first thought is exactly what you said it’s talks about the player growth the Player Development I think that’s what we’ve been looking at the Pistons the last seven years or so young team lot of development and coaches that were not necessarily patient look Dwayne Casey he didn’t come here to coach young guys he didn’t come here to coach babies and you got to think about that when he got fired he did what he could it’s not why he came here and you look at Mony Williams throwing a lot of money throwing a lot of money to come in and Coach a team of kids basically that’s trying to figure out you’re trying to figure out these kids even NBA kids as we’re trying to figure out with Killian Hayes they work with Jared Allen the work with Darius Garland there in Cleveland I like that with biger sta a lot of handson stuff so you see growth out of those players that’s what you got here you got Jay naivy how are you going to grow him K Cunningham who we’ll talk about in a second how are you going to grow him as your feature player how are you going to go Jaylen durran who missed a lot of time in the last two years I think growth JB bicker sta the first thing I saw and then also too they’ve been above 500 down there in Cleveland the last couple years and that is in the East the same conference that this team is in so man as I look at that and I say yesterday or last week we talked about it seems like for as much as he can have because of the owner and we talk about you know arm tell him and whatever but it seems like traan Lon has a plan he does seems like he’s coming here with a plan and it seems like now that he’s been in front of that microphone he’s been implementing his plan a little bit at a time I got to say I’m I’m I’m comfortable not confident comfortable right now they’re they’re not going to win 14 games next year they’re going to they’re going to win a lot more than that I don’t know how many yeah but they’re going to be more competitive it’s going to be a lot better to watch and yesterday early morning that’s when the news broke and that’s when w came out on ESPN and told us about JB bicker staff told that the Detroit Pistons are hiring JB bicker staff as their next head coach won 99 games in the last two years in Cleveland two trips of the playoffs including the Eastern Conference semi-finals this year Tran langon the new president with the Pistons when they dismissed Monty Williams JB bicker staff was the first coach they brought in uh he really sold this organization on his ability to not just develop young players but coach veterans and listen bicker have had an outstanding run you saw the incremental Improvement in Cleveland uh now he becomes the new Pistons head coach all right well thank you so much and I think the big thing behind that man is you got a coach now you have a system and it’s all about having a plan like when you have a plan things get done and it seems like trer L has a plan he hires a coach that’s used to developing younger Minds younger players he understands that he hires a coach who is a shooting coach you look at what the New Orleans Pelicans have done over the past four years they’ve been in the top 10 in the NBA as it relates to three-point shooting each of the last four years this year this past season I fin I want to say they finished fourth so you bringing a guy to help the shooting you bringing a guy to help the young guys you’re starting to see something transformed down there and also they bring in some former players Detroit Pistons bringing in Tobias Harris for two years 52 million kg I want to start off with you we should play welcome back that welcome back title song welcome back welcome welcome back who did that was it mace redid that when when he came back from being Pastor Mason if you will uh Tobias Harris is a guy that we know he was here seven years ago and now he’s come back not necessarily um the same guy he was then but what do you think about the move to bring Tobias Harris back as a veteran guy that’s been around some deep playoff runs yeah I mean it wasn’t what I wanted initially but we as Pistons fans have to realize the market was drying up there’s not much you could do Tobias Harris is a guy that can come in he can help you with shooting he can help you a little bit defensively and he’s going to contribute man so I think all in all it’s a good signing he’s not making the same money he was making with Philly so that’s a plus as well $26 million he getting paid yeah but it’s a two-year deal is not as bad as 36 or you know 40 upwards of 40 million so I would take that all day man he’s going to come in he’s going to contribute maybe after a year you can come off that contract it’s going to work for right now man so it is what it is what do you expect what are you expecting out of Tobias Harris you’re talking about a guy at one point when he was here at the pitons you kind of saw where he could potentially go and then we saw that dream fulfilled once he got to the Clippers he became All-Star caliber player he goes to the 76ers seem like he’s been on a bit of a decline about the last 3 years but like kg said he’s a guy that does typically play both ends of the four and overall for his care he’s a pretty good shooter what do you think about him now I the thing for me that’s most important here is this is a guy that Not only was willing but wanted to return to Detroit and that’s huge right now you know people are saying should we have given Kade the max or not you can’t get a max player in the NBA at all if you’re the Detroit Pistons outside of ridiculous trade or the draft so you have to keep him now you look at the tears of of the free agents this summer couple guys that cream of the crop they were gone we never had a shot but then that next grouping he’s firmly in there Tobias and the fact that he wanted to come back here when we have a team full of 23 and unders this guy’s not only going to help us with our perimeter shooting going to help us with some to your an even in even extended defense good rebounder but he is going to come in and not be a guy who’s you know a stranger to Detroit but he’s he familiar with the the administration familiar with the facility he’s familiar with the city and he’s going to be able to come in here not just as a veteran player but as a veteran of Detroit and a a veteran of the Pistons so he’s going to do more than what you just see on the basketball court I think that this signing and when you go a little bit further into bringing back another michigander and and Tim Hardaway you’ve got two guys that they’re not at the top of their careers you know they’re they’re on the downslide they’re still very effective players and what they can bring to the mentality of this young group of of Pistons I mean I can see more than 25 wins with these guys in here they need another player yeah but um this could be even a 30 win team and I know that’s not exciting but it’s it’s it’s a big jump I really think that these two guys alone just change the mentality and the way that this whole team is going to function I love your optimism ason but slow down over there sir slow down you know I believe that red white and blue man Tom asway he brings up a very good point I know you you are Pistons royalty over here so I have to give you that respect appr but he brings up a good point you know Monty Williams didn’t want to come here per se he was throwing money and eventually he came here players don’t typically want to run here Ryan and Monty talked about last week it’s an agent driven League agents tell their clients where to go agents have told their players not to work out for here etc etc but it seems like bigger staff wants to be here it seems like they got the coach right in that sense seems like Tobias Harris obviously he got paid here but at the same time he wanted to come here he asked to come here I think this is what getting off on the right foot looks like for TR Lany getting players and coaches that want to be here and understand they’re coming to Detroit there’s a lot of negative things said about Detroit from the record to how they are in the league and what they love but it still seems like he’s doing it the right way so far yeah I mean let’s face this isn’t not going it’s tough sled I know but you’re coming here to to Detroit Detroit’s new man yeah this ain’t old Detroit okay this is you got a beautiful building to play in you have a wonderful practice facility one of the best in the league I was down there on a Friday get an MRI there you go how’s it go uh I’m nervous okay but uh on the 17th me and dog sit there and talk about what happened with the shoulder maybe some tear in the rotator cuff I’m not going to claim that but uh from golf you know weight go from Ball Golf I have lift weights too now don’t get it twisted which one was it though did you heard it on the green or you heard it in the gym I’ve been I’ve been complaining about this for the last two months heard it so I’m looking for an answer the gym or the links lifting weights okay lifting weight that’s what he sticking to so but beautiful beautiful facility down there in the performance it’s not like he come into a rundown establishment sure they’re they’re at their worse right now you can only go up for 14 wins you can only go up they’re going to get another high draft pick next year I don’t even know what next year’s draft looks like I guess we’ll figure that out but they’re going to add some players now if they can like double their win total to 28 or so and just be a little bit competitive then maybe you could start having some guys here to come here you know at the trade deadline harda away will probably get dealt yeah who knows maybe Tobias Harris might get dealt who knows he’s got 552 million we just ate $65 million so I I don’t think money is is the issue right now Tom G I mean look how much money this Pistons team is worth what they what they sell it he bought it for like 300 million it’s worth three billion now so just under 3.5 and you know the Boston Celtics are for sale by the way they’re going to get sold the guy bought it for 360 million they’re going to go for5 billion dollar so NBA franchises are on the upswing right now it’s a good time to be in the NBA you’re going to get a new deal here pretty soon television wise uh things are looking up here in Detroit Detroit that’s all you know what you’re a 14- win team you got screwed in the lottery two years in a row and now you’re finally starting to get some semblance of a team you know you got a coach here that wants to be here and you got some players that want to be here and they’re going to pay Cade word on the street is he’s going to get himself sir a Max contract coming up that’s the next move I don’t know if you guys like that or not but why the hell not keep the guy you drafted with your number one pick you got to do it I and for all those reasons you just spoke of I do think that the Pistons are finally on the right track we’ve got a coach that’s right in that pocket in his career where he’s ready to take on a franchise without anybody looking over his shoulder and really put his stamp on that team now you just mentioned that they’re you think that they’ll double their wins I’m looking at Vegas and they say 28.5 is the over under for the Pistons wins this year where do you where do you find us on that before I start with that 28.5 I want to get back to you introduced the deal K Cunningham and Ma you bought up again potentially 5 years $225 million deal Max on the floor doesn’t necessarily have to be signed this year but maybe you sign the extension where are you with that because this is where I start I like the fact and I remember this from the press conference I was listening to this nugget tras and lanon said when he come evaluation evaluation was the word he use everybody’s under evaluation and by that I think he means K Cunningham as well do you want to do like non-smart organizations and double down on the question mark that you have or do you want to do like the smart smart organizations like the 49ers who got rid of trade lands cuz they knew what they didn’t have is a situation where you want to pay this man and be signed 226 million or do you want to wait and see if he’s worth it it it’s really an important question when you look at those franchises they’ve been smart so long that they can handle losing someone like Cade the Pistons are in a position of such a desperate nature in a league where you look at the past drafts and there’s three to five really strong players that come out per draft and those are the better drafts whole lot of you know role players and and mid guys but when it comes to Landing an All-Star caliber guy and I know he wasn’t an All-Star yet but if you look at his numbers he he easily matched and probably surpassed the bottom three four guys on the Eastern roster for the allstar game this is the only max type player in the NBA that the Pistons can get their hands on and it’s because we drafted him yeah that’s good point if you lose him there’s no one that you can go out and sign in order to obtain one you’re going to have to trade how many first round picks that we have that aren’t protected because there’s a few that that we lose if we fall out of the 12 um the Pistons are just in a position where they’ve been dumb long enough where they can’t play like a smart team they have to keep this kid now at the same time we you know a lot of people thr plenty of questions around Kate but Kate’s been surrounded by children yeah with the entirety of the Pistons responsibility offensively and defensively put on his shoulders and when you mix in some of these guys that have um some experience some guys like Tim Hardway some guys like Tobias we’ll see who else fills in here with a new coach that figures out how to use Cade I truly believe that when he’s asked to do less he’s going to become much more you know what I appreciate that that actually is that’s well said because you look at it that’s what we keep talking about they can’t get people to come to play in Detroit they can’t get the top tier players they can’t get the second tier players to come here and give him max deals the max deals that you have is a guy that you draft and K cutting up and also too I think we’re looking at money the big money and not understanding money is even bigger now 226 sounds like a ton and it is a lot of money but now you’re getting deals that are about to start being upwards of 600 650 and 585 so to your point I like the deal you bring K back and you see what you have in K man also too now to answer your question and I’ll take it to ma after 28 and A2 wins 14 some injuries Jaylen dor didn’t play a lot early on in the season I think you have a coach that’s going to do some Player Development I think the players just naturally get better we’re working with JB bicker step I think the shooting that wins you a couple more games bringing in Tobias Harris let’s say he and Tim Hardaway Jr let’s say that they come and play let’s say they’re not dealt off or they’re not traded before trade deadline Tobias remember what it was like here and then he remember like it was when he was in Clippers what was in uh 70 60s if they get the guys to listen to Tobias Harris if he comes in and wants to maybe take on that role I think that buys you three two to three to four more wins and then Tim Hardway Jr shout out to the Amazing Blue go Blue they say we look Alik I never saw I I didn’t I didn’t say it was a bad thing you know what I’m saying you’re more handsome bro you know Tim Tim’s a little he’s a little homie like when they were winning or when they almost won they used to hang out with those guys back in the day but what is he 66 he taller than you he’s taller than me I don’t think about 66 but he’s Slimmer though he’s he’s a strong 65 yeah yeah say strong 65 but uh yeah you get him to play he’s a guy he’s he’s a role player that can come here and role play 28 and a half from 14 even with a new coach new system new shooting I’m going over I know you want to cornbread I’mma fall just a little short I think 26 I say It’s just tough it’s tough when we’ve watched them and we’ve been analyzing these Pistons now m in the show for 4 years and we watch seven wins when they tried to tank they didn’t try to tank and only won 14 I understand the coaching is different 26 is where I’m at Tom as away hey man it’s early yeah let’s let’s let him breathe but you know what 26 to 30 wins is very feasible no no you’re held to a number 28 and a half okay fine 20 I’ll say 30 wins how 30 wins but by the way sham charne of the athletic it is official pisses have signed Kate Cunningham five years 226 M face of the franchise they had to do it now he’s actually got a couple of adults to talk to on the team yeah and people that want to coach him you know yep yeah this is good too I think you see this KJ you learn from the Detroit Pistons yeah you learn I mean excuse me you learn you can’t learn anything from them yet right you learn from the Detroit Lions Detroit Lions they knew what they had Amar R Brown what he deserves pan Su jarro GF you pay those guys you keep them Mor High I think you look at what K Cunningham’s done when he’s played like he’s played he’s done all that he can but he’s a young guy working with young guys you dumped a lot in his lap I think you’ve seen leadership skills I think you seen a guy that plays on both ends of the floor defense and offense and I think you seen the guy that needs help but wants to be here wants to be here and has been professional yeah he has been a young professional the whole time he’s here pay the man what he’s worth I think this is I think this is a good contract and he deserve it yeah and he’s improved every year statistically he raised his three-point percentage over the last year a lot of people want to complain oh he’s injured oh he’s this he had one injury guys and yes he was out for a year but he showed this last season that he can stay healthy and be a good part of the rotation so I mean you you had to do it man and people are tripping over the number you look at Scotty Barnes who yes he won rookie of the year but hasn’t really accomplished much much else he’s getting 270 yeah so I mean this is just what happens when you have a rookie on the max contract man this just part of it but they needed to keep K cuz I’m not in the market of trying to find another 1A or number two player because it was hard enough just trying to find Kade like look how long it took us to just get a k Cunningham in this organization man so lock the guy up let’s let’s roll that’s our only number one pick right in a long time you take history 67 exactly take advantage of it J father this is very true [Music]

Braylon Edwards, Anson Wells and Tom Mazawey discuss the Detroit Pistons moves in acquiring J.B. Bickerstaff as their new head coach as well as signing Tobias Harris back in Detroit. Like, Subscribe and leave your comment below!

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