Pistons Thoughts Ep 8 - Fixing a Historically Bad Team

Troy Weaver is gone. Monty Williams is gone. Trajan Langdon is here and he has a clean slate to start from

I take us down the dark, depressing trail of the Troy Weaver tenure and recap how we got here.

The Pistons are on the verge of a historic losing streak and though the season is essentially lost, it's not as hard to fix this team as you'd think...

While the Pistons start to free agency has been underwhelming, it doesn't mean the moves that made were bad. Grabbing Joe Harris' expiring deal and getting Monte Morris essentially for free could turn out to be a good start to the summer.

The Pistons walk away with 2 defensive studs in Ausar Thompson and Marcus Sasser. Free agency is around the corner and with $30M in cap space with the goal to win games this season, Troy has his work cut out for him.

With the draft on Thursday night and free agency soon after, the Pistons are in a prime spot to take advantage of many possibilities. Between the draft, trades and free agency, there are about a million different combinations of moves the Pistons could make. I go through 4 reasonably realistic scenarios that I would be happy with.

A week and a half to go before the NBA draft, and the Pistons are loaded with $30M In projected cap space this off-season. There are many ways to use the money within trades and free agency, and the Pistons are one of only 7 teams with projected cap space. I go through some possible trade partners and some of the overlooked free agents of this class who would fit right in.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got our guy! The winningest coach In the NBA over the last few years is coming to Detroit. The Suns team he took over jumped from 19 to 34 wins the season he got there. Why not us?

It isn't going to be Wemby or Scoot, but the Pistons are going to be in a position to draft a difference maker with the 5th pick. I'm looking at 4 great options who fit right in with the core of Cade/Ivey/Duren.

The lottery gods hate Detroit, but with a core of Cade Cunningham, Jaden Ivey, Jalen Duren the number 5 pick and $30M in cap space, it's not all bad....right?