Jabari Smith looking real nice 👀

Him and Cade together?

SADDIQ

Love this young core and we getting another nice pick this year!

Gimme Ayton (give him the max, idgaf) and Jabari Smith or Chet, then trade Jerami to the Blazers for a top 10 pick

We’d be dominant this decade if that happens

Not a Pistons fan, but what about Bagley? Can retain him for way cheaper than signing Ayton and offensively has a higher ceiling although his defense isn't necessarily top tier.

maybe spend that cap space on a wing or save it for next year

Key word there is defense mate.

Sir Bagleton III is cool for offense off the bench, but he’s garbo at defense and not even a consistent offensive player. Ayton is a winner, Baggleton is a starter on a losing team

What I’m really nervous about is us overpaying Brunson. I like him, but I’m not sure I even think he’s good enough to be a starter, let alone get paid like a star

Clinched at worst being tied for the 3rd seed in the draft lottery

And 1 more loss gives us the spot outright

Dead af at me comping Stew to Draymond when we drafted him

One year later, this is still accurate.

Kill has been playing really great ball over the last month especially, and he has shown a lot of the strengths and areas he needed to improve — shooting is still the biggest sticking point and will determine his ultimate future in the league, but like I said before, his mechanics make me optimistic that he can figure it out in a year or two.

His playmaking is still ELITE, and his defense is actually up there with most starting pgs, even above average probably, he’s a pest with length. What I love this past month though, is the aggressiveness. If he keeps it up AND starts shooting better, WHEW.

2 more days

Troy loading up the glock

Gimme either Ivey, Ben Mat, or Shaed tomorrow

We out here!!!!

We needed athleticism and we got the most athletic dude in the draft

Got enough cap space to throw max offers to Bridges and Ayton at the same time

Was worried he wouldn't get to the Pistons due to Sacramento either taking him outright or through a trade

Playing with Cade puts him in a great position to start too

We don't currently have enough to extend 2 max offers anymore because we took on Kemba's contract. We could probably make room by moving Kelly/Hami/CoJo etc if needed though.

But from what I've seen from Pistons beat guys, Troy's looking to focus on our youth now that we got way more in this draft than he thought was possible. There's a chance we don't even go after Ayton anymore.

I'm kind of down to use the remaining cap space to just get salary dumps in return for big time assets.

Pistons will win a title this decade

We also got Manu minus the handles

Yeah when I wrote that it was before the Kemba trade but I've seen the same thing in terms of focusing on the youth

I wouldn't want to max Ayton anyways so it's cool that they went with Duren instead

Bridges would be fantastic with this group though so it would be cool if they tried to go after him

Otherwise using the cap space to take on bad money for assets will be fire

I know Hami got a team option but he for sure staying that's one of Weaver's guys for sure

Excited to see what's next, always good to see good GMing/team building around high level talents and prospects like Cade

kemba is getting bought out

Yeah that was always the plan, but we still have his dead cap money on our books

young d u still holding this thread down? detroit gonna be a problem pretty damn soon.

You already know, once we get Wembayama next season too, this thread gonna be flooded with bandwagoners