Greg Kelser On the Detroit Pistons Rebuild
how thin is that line where a young team young players um the line be between being deflated or feeling defeated versus using that losing as motivation I know when you were drafted the Pistons it wasn’t like dick vital was a coach if I remember correctly it’s not like it was the most winning environment at that time it took a little bit of time how how do these how does this young team tow that line of being defeated versus using it as motivation to never happen again well I speak to you from from experience I had the same thing happen to me um coming off a national championship in Michigan State I’m drafted by uh the Pistons who were in a rebuild and um you know we only won 16 games and I can tell you when when you lose that many games I could easily go back and find you 10 wins for the Pistons this past season because there were at least 10 10 games that they could have should have yeah won facts and it was the same thing with us back in 79 we were a young team we had five rookies on the team we had two more players that were in their second year so we weren’t going anywhere in a 23 Team league uh you you you weren’t going to win with youth like that and and we knew it but we worked hard we gave it the best we could and and we tried to stay together this team this year did stay together they they still pulled for each other there was no dissension or cracking or splintering or anything or finger pointing anything like that uh that’s good that speaks to the leadership that was there that kept that intact because when you’re losing it can easily fragment uh most of the times it does um but the line you speak of is is a very fine line so fine that if you go back two three years we had a game in Oklahoma City late in the season Oklahoma and the Oklahoma had a bunch of guys out there You’ never heard of they were trying to map out their future and what they were going to do and the Pistons were pretty much in the same boat I mean I really had to have a a big roster in front of me to know who these players were cuz many of them on the Oklahoma City side i’ had not heard of Oklahoma city has the best record in the uh in the Western Conference last year two three years later okay so that’s how fine that line is and that’s why you have hope that uh you know it doesn’t have to stay this way for very long if you’re a Pistons fan um you make the right decisions you catch some luck you get some good health uh you know you you make a couple of good drafts and and that sort of things things can turn around in basketball maybe much quicker than they can in some of the other sports [Music]
Greg Kelser joins the WUW crew to discuss the Detroit Pistons current rebuild. Like, Subscribe and leave your comment below!
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