π Why the PISTONS hiring J.B. BICKERSTAFF is a ‘SOLID MOVE’ for their rebuild | Yahoo Sports
and the first topic here is JB bicker staff after being fired from the Cleveland Cavaliers lands with the Detroit Pistons replacing Monty Williams and they did not have to bribe him they did not have to offer him a exorbitant amount of money three times but they gave him a 5year deal and he used that kind of cash don’t you wish somebody would bribe us for that kind of cash please bribe me okay please nepotism me like whatever that thing is give it to me all right I will take it and I will do well with it but I like the move for Detroit because it feels like you didn’t go for the big splashy name and you got a coach with some level of experience when you have a young team and a new president having a new or firsttime head coach didn’t feel like that was something that that franchise needed no I agree again it’s uh like in a vacuum I mean JB’s very good coach it’s a solid move I think developmentally um he’s a better fit than Monty one of the things that I never understood about the higher in Detroit was that you know his superpower in Phoenix was the ability to connect with some of the stars out there and and to be a culture Builder but it was to take a program that was already on the way up uh to the next level I think JB has had more experience in his Cavs life uh you know bringing the Darius garlands of the world up and and you know even the Jared Allen guys like that so I like to hire it’s still hard to just look at it and you know you and I will never be in a seat like Tom Gore’s where the cash is what it is but like my God the price tag to to make a switch with uh with Monty Williams it’s just you know I mean you can’t you can’t undo what was done before so the the past doesn’t matter in terms of whether or not JB is going to be effective in that job um but admittedly it’s just going to take me a minute to just get it out of my head like what the whole Monty Williams chapter was I think multiple things can be true Monty Williams is a good coach who had a bad year with a bad team right right I think all of those things can happen I think like you said Monty Williams connecting with the veteran of Chris Paul the veteran of Devin Booker like that sort of thing works for him asking him to figure out Killian Hayes who clearly is no longer an NBA Pro that’s a problem and some of the lineups that he threw out there man but it was like almost a function of wait is the roster this bad or is he just trying to show us how bad the roster is like it was like you go from winning 17 games without K Cunningham to get in basically a full season of K Cunningham and winning 14 games nobody in their right mind would say that Monty Williams did a good job but it was also a bad roster that being said Kade gets us Kade is on the way it’s not official yet but your colleagues at the athletic my boy James Edwards and Sham shiria like closing in on the five year $226 million Max it’s almost a foro conclusion you know on on a rooky scale deal and they bring back Tobias Harris two years $52 million he feels like the right vet at the right time for them yeah he does and he’s motivated um you know it’s funny because Tobias remains just you know one of the more divisive players in the league he’s one of those guys that they got you know it’s kind of like everything with him was through the filter of his contract didn’t matter how well he played everybody you know was convinced that he was overpaid and he probably was but um that is where we you know sometimes fall short media wise in evaluating the game is like Tobias Harris is still a really good player um and so this feels like you go into a spot where they need his leadership they need his production uh and he probably will have a chip on his shoulder because I think you know you look at that Sixers roster right now they still have some money now granted not enough to hit tobias’s type of number but like they made a choice to we’re getting out of the Tobias Harris business they had tried to move him for years um and so this is his chance I think to have a good chapter in Detroit uh and again I I like it um you know I think that that team I mean listen it’s still got a long way to go when it comes to long way to go sound yeah I mean you and I have we’re Spirit Animals Vinnie when it comes to like our home Market you know having the team in our backyard that just finds new ways now I’m in Sacramento the Kings have gotten a little better recently but a whole lot of years watching these franchises stumble their way through um so we’ll see where it goes in Detroit
Yahoo Sports’ Vincent Goodwill and Sam Amick from The Athletic discuss the Pistons hiring the recently-fired J.B. Bickerstaff as their new head coach.
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8 Comments
Cade and the young core will love his personality
Every move Pistons made was moves Troy would of done
Build baby build
I'm hoping Tobias plays a similar role to Pudge signing with the Tigers in the early 2000s. A vet who comes in and plays a big role with leadership and play to push create a culture and help push us into playoff contention.
Monty was a bad coach trying to get fired. He shouldβve never got hired.
The Monty hire set the team back a year or two. The only positive or one of the few is the Pistons did spend a lot of money during the Monty year so there is money left to make some moves. I do wonder if the Pistons will keep their assistants or what and why the Pistons did not look at an assistant to become the HC? I think one of the assistance is Silas who has experience from Houston as a HC.
Monty was not blindsided. He knew they were in development. He never should have accepted the position. He took the money and wasted their time. Shame on him.
Monty was never a good coach, he just had the benefit of a solid roster in Phoenix.