Dwane Casey says the Detroit Pistons need to reach another level of defensive pride within this roster and organization, but how can they do that? What steps do they need to make as a franchise to become a more focused defensive team?
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21 Comments
I think that they have not played Noel much because he gets hurt every year and you can't trade damaged goods. This is a year for him to mentor and be healthy for when it's time to go.
Its been a brilliant plan to lower his usage in my opinion.
I disagree with you; the talent is there. They just don't want to play for Casey because of the way he rotates and threat them. The players have been putting up with him and now they're tired of his BS. He has to go before he ruin these young players.
No, Casey needs to go NOW. I said it when they hired him, the Pistons will never be above 500 with him as the head coach.
Bogey is playing for himself. Every game appears to be an audition for another team. He gets up for a few of the showy matchups, particularly against other international players. Otherwise he doesn't play defense, he doesn't bring the intangibles, and he doesn't ordinarily play for his teammates. Bey has been trying to work out of a shooting funk. For the most part I think he's a high character guy with great work ethic and terrible defense. Beef has been a bright spot in a dark season. Hayes has turned the corner in his career. He's still a work in progress, but he's showing great signs. I think Cade would have made a huge difference with his play and his leadership. Without him, this team is bottoming out mentally every night. That last game against the Bucks was a new low. At this point, we have to start making some significant changes (personnel and coaching). We cannot have another season of soft non competitive clueless basketball.
What do you think of a trade based closely to Boyan and Bagley for John Collins and AJ Griffin?
Weaver hired Casey with his feelings for a friend and not with his great basketball mindset. He gave him a chance and it didn't work out, now it's past time to let him go.
I think they need to threatened each player and the coach put their jobs on the line like a regular job 😡
I looked at Siakam. He is too old for this team. We need a veteran that is 25-26 years old. I think Cade and Duren are only untouchables.
Joe killed it. I basically agreed with everything you guys said. As a fan I’m a little down on the future of the pistons. I’m not confident in Troy weaver if we don’t get the first pick 🤷🏽♂️
Our better defense last 2 years was part Gerami and part pace of play on offense. The slower your offense the better your defense looks just by using clock
The team is set up to fail.
You all are totally unrealistic saying that barring a n injury to Cade they can't be this bad and if so then Troy has to go. This shows just how much you understand about the game. If other key players are injured, then a healthy Cade is still not enough to have a successful season. So you need to have key players stay healthy for 80% of the season to have a gauge on how to measure the success of the team. Hopefully that's with a different voice leading the team on the court.
When you know that your organization is tanking how do you stay engaged? If you know you're being set up to fail, what are you playing for? My GM does not want us to win games but I still gotta play hard? People thought Bojan was brought in because Detroit was serious about being competitive. Bojan is disruptive to Saddiq, livers, and Knox's growth especially since his STYLE OF PLAY does not win any games.
Big NO on trading Duren! Siakim is not on the timeline. Regarding the poor D, I think we are seeing the effects of losing Jerami Grant – a vet who took the toughest defensive assignment and set the tone. Not saying we should have kept him for the money he wanted, but we didn't get someone to replace his defense.
Stay the course, cross our fingers for Victor and find a new coach in the offseason. When Cade was out for the year, this season was done.
LOL I closed the video when this dude said Duren can be traded and compared him to Drummond. You're out of your mind. Bojan, Bey, Hayes, Knox, Cojo, McGruder, Noel, Diallo are just some of the names that will be easily moved before you can even consider trading Duren. If they do a head coach change they better do it now so they have some experience working with someone new before the end of the season then tighten up in the offseason.
Didn't they say both Noel and the team agreed to part ways when possible? They aren't going to play him because of that…
Find a 10 year vet thats not a smuck defensively?? All the available 10 year vets are smucks lol. Otherwise, theyd be playing on a contender. The only thing that fixes this team is fixing the team… our roster construction needs to change pretty dramatically. I was a little more reluctant earlier in the season about trading Bey but the sample size is in and we have at 2 players on the team with a similar archetype. We need to target roster upgardes now, not later. Waiting helps nothing. Draft picks are cool but theres gotta be at least 1 or 2 player upgrades that can happen by the trade deadline.
When are we going to fire DC and get a championship ready coach??
I don’t understand why fans are surprised by this teams poor defense. They traded a great all around player in Grant who was a defensive presence and replaced him with Bojan who can’t do anything besides shoot the ball
that'll require trades
We need to urgently trade Bojan, Burks and Noel… Bojan in 30 more games will worth a second round pick, Burks can stay if he wants less $, and Noel unfortunately is useless. Bojan sucks, let’s be honest, I rather have a guy who scores 12ppg but can defend than a guy who scores 26 and allows 40ppg on his back!