Everyone is talking about the Detroit Pistons?

Everyone is talking about the Detroit Pistons?

For those of you that clicked on the video today hello and welcome I’m sure that you’re either a Detroit Pistons fan or an NBA fan trying to wrap your head around what the Detroit Pistons have been up to for the last four years or your YouTube algorithm is just going ham

But no matter how you found this video and found this channel hello welcome on in and I’m glad that you’re here and it’s really an interesting phenomenon because I feel like I can’t speak for Detroit Pistons fans but I feel like a lot of Detroit Pistons

Fans are in a very weird spot and what I’m saying is that we did not expect to come into this season being the center of media attention in the NBA for the last three years the Detroit Pistons have like not been on national TV games and that’s been like even longer than

This fouryear stretch like the Pistons aren’t like a national TV draw like we weren’t getting uh NBA TNT games like handed to us for Andre Drummond and Brandon Jennings lineups all right but I was not expecting for us to be so bad that we were talked about on first

Take a couple of weeks ago Michael wilbon this was like NBA uh countdown or something I I forget the name it’s like the ESPN ABC NBA show and I the Pistons weren’t playing on ESPN because they weren’t given a game but they had like a game break and Michael wilbon could not name

Two Detroit Pistons players it was just K gunningham you could not name a single other Detroit Pistons player and I’m not trying to say this to call him out but the National Basketball media on TV at least hasn’t been paying attention to the Detroit Pistons over

The last couple of years and why would they the Detroit Pistons th those wouldn’t show up on TV segments that’s on the a block or B Block for those of you that don’t work in TV or never like work in TV the a block is like the first

Segment of the show and then you have a break and then you get to the B Block and yada yada I went to broadcast journalism uh sorry I went to school for broadcast journalism and while I don’t use my degree a lot I figured I should

Just tell you that so you know all of these NBA national media Outlets or whatever they chase the ratings they chase the interesting story and for a long time now a lot of fans of lesser covered teams have been begging for National media coverage National media

Flowers oh give give credit to my team stop showing Alex Caruso Lakers highlights bleach report it and here’s the thing as someone that has been in sports media for six seven years I have a lot of friends that work at Bleacher Report I have a lot of friends that work

At ESPN and I’m not this is not to talk to them I’m not talking to them the employee I’m talking to them the employer right um I know that you got to do what you got to do you got to cover what makes the cash you got to cover

What makes the money I know that I go a long time in these you videos without telling people to subscribe and hit the like button and but that really helps me out and I appreciate it um so please do that I I just wish that from a higher up

Perspective that we could spread the wealth a little bit more because I feel like there isn’t a cap on how many social media posts you can post today and I know that I’m being unreasonable cuz there are so many teams to cover so many players to cover it’s hard to

Especially today’s NBA when there are so many absurd stat lines on a game in game out basis that it’s hard to cover everybody but as a Pistons fan I was not expecting any national TV attention for the entire year I wasn’t expecting that I was

Expecting us to win like 25 to 30 games go incredibly under the radar and just keep on pushing this upwards however this has become a losing streak so demoralizing to the players and it’s just an absolute embarrassment to the franchise a franchise again that really hasn’t made any sort of NBA

Splash in 15 years like since Obama was in office like the time that Obama was in office like first term Obama mind you this team is used to just dealing in not irrelevancy but dealing in like not having a lot of their moves heavily scrutinized by like the national media if any

Other sorry not any other but there are a lot of basketball teams where if all you got in free agency this year was Joe Harris and Monty Morris and resigning Isaiah Stewart If you swap the Pistons like logo and whatever with another team’s logo it’s likely that

They would get a segment on like ESPN being like why are they not doing anything in free agency and it’s not it’s not like a it’s like it’s not a theory being like are small Market teams allowed to just go under the radar and just make all of these mistakes because

They Don’t Fear The National backlash but I I don’t think that’s true because big Market teams also make those kinds of mistakes all the time they just get they just get scrutinized more and I feel like a lot of these front offices don’t really pay attention to how the

Media thinks about them because it’s mostly negative all across the board because again the discourse is Championship or you’re not doing your job or whatever I was not expecting the Detroit Pistons to be a league pass alert for like fans of the entire league fans of every team are now tuning into

The Detroit Pistons and there are some good things about this people are finally like recognizing how good Kade Cunningham is but they’re also realizing how much help Kade Cunningham needs and how many players on this roster have been put into impossible situations ations like this deck is stacked against this

Roster and it start it’s not the it’s again it’s not the it’s not the actual roster it’s the people constructing the roster Troy weav Troy Weaver has had a string of just questionable moves and if you clicked on any other Pistons YouTube video you know every day the sadique bay

For James wisman trade looks absolutely horrendous James wisman just isn’t an NBA player now I will say when Troy Weaver drafted Killian Hayes and Isaiah Stewart and sadique Bay a lot of people praised him for it people wanted Killian Hayes some people wanted Halle Burton but I can’t Monday Morning Quarterback

This thing because there were some people that were like this is actually a really good draft now fast forward to three years this team was so the situation was so draining apparently that a former NBA coach of the year Dwayne Casey was just like yo I you got

Me I don’t want to coach this team anymore and I feel I wonder if that’s happening with Monty right is that Monty now understands the situation that he’s in and realizes how draining it truly is I don’t know I don’t know if Monty took this job and then like two weeks into

Realize that oh my God there is a lot more work that needs to be done and a lot of it’s just outside of my control you know Monty is trying to build a Lego set with pieces missing and there’s like some Lincoln Logs thrown in you can’t

Put you can’t build Lego with Lincoln Logs okay they just don’t mesh and even if they do mesh it just looks terrible you know I could go on a tangent on how I think Lincoln Logs are just unfund toys as a kid oh you built another cabin

Yippe I’m sorry I’m an only child just bear with me here all I’m waiting for right now is an inside the NBA piston segment I know someone tweeted about this but like yeah we are one legendary Inside the NBA piston segment away from this being just complete right

I I need I need Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley to just roast our team into Oblivion but I feel like we just don’t we just don’t criticize the front office enough and they’ve been able to hide behind Monty Williams and some of his bizarre choices but some of Monty Williams bizarre

Choices are because of how poorly the roster is constructed so it’s a kind of ongoing cycle poor decisions that cause more poor decisions it’s like an absolute Snowball the more I think about it the more Tom gors is like quotes and stuff really bugged me cuz he was like we’re

Doing everything right besides winning games are you serious my man my brother you own the team it’s a basketball team telling a bunch of fans of a basketball team that like oh yeah we’re doing a lot of great things in the community that that you just asked for us to get memed

After that because you know you know what team does great stuff for the community every team do y’all remember I think NBA care still exists I’m still talk I’m I was thinking about NBA read to achieve I don’t know if read to achieve still exists but NBA Cares

Exists that’s the whole league Tom just an absolute lack of awareness that’s on full display like even like the Casual fan like I saw I’ve been seeing YouTube videos my algorithm is cooked by the way I’ve seen YouTube videos videos where popular like gaming creators and nonp sports creators are

Like now talking about this P because this now you don’t even have to know about the NBA or even Sports to know that this team is really bad like we’re this is this this Detroit Pistons team will be a Jeopardy question give it some time it’s going to be on Jeopardy because this

Year season’s performance has been etched in stone it is immortalized in the history books of the NBA and the general public and this doesn’t and unlike everything else of the Pistons have been doing for the last four plus years it’s not going under the radar we

All can see it we all know people have had Pistons games marked on their calendar now because every game feels like a playoff game now with the in terms of like will this streak actually end the overtime to the Celtics that the last time I’ve seen a game that intense

Was like in the inseason tournament like every Pistons game is an inseason Tournament game now somehow and even if the P like the losing streak breaks we still need more public criticism of this front office because you have we have to hold them accountable and they cannot keep getting away with their awful

Decisions I I what makes me sad is that I know that there are people that don’t follow basketball don’t really follow sports that are going to assume that a Pistons are like historically a perennial bottom dweller when in fact like this organization has three championships and like some of the

Coolest champion I ship rosters there’s so much history in this Detroit Pistons there’s so much I know it’s not like the Lakers with like 18 banners but like it’s a pretty this is a pretty great franchise like in terms of fan base in terms of history in terms of

Legends that have played for this team but for a lot of us it’s been so long since we’ve seen that it’s been 15 years since the pist have won a playoff game cuz even though we’ve made the playoffs and gotten swept twice after that like think about how long 15 years

Is bro there are people next year that are about to take Driver’s Ed that haven’t seen the Pistons win a playoff game when I put it like that that’s kind of crazy right yeah but my biggest fear is that the Pistons might like rally off

A couple of wins but no matter what the Pistons record is at the end of the year something has to be done we can’t just look at the final win be like oh the Pistons oh they actually won 11 games get people out of here it’s it’s

Been year four this is year four this is not like this is not like a Cavs team that just lost LeBron this is not like a Sixers team that like we didn’t lose a star we gained our best player back and we’re somehow a worse team I feel like that

In and of itself is the grounds of Clearing House in the front office

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