The Pistons have delivered only one winning season since Tom Gores became the majority owner. With the way general manager Troy Weaver has revamped the roster, Gores believes the franchise is ready to take off, Keith Langlois of Pistons.com writes.
“I’ve now owned the team for 11 years, and I’ve never felt this way,” Gores said. “This is a great foundation, it’s a tremendous foundation. Part of the reason I love the players on this team is that you have tremendous skill, but there’s a lot of humility here. With humility, you also reflect and that’s how you improve. I really love this energy. I love it, and I don’t say that often.”
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- Cade Cunningham realizes he may have to make some individual sacrifices in order to become a true leader, as he told James Edwards III of The Athletic. “Right now, we’re still trying to figure it out and build our way up to being a winning team,” Cunningham said. “Everything that I’m doing, everything that the team is doing, should be with that in mind. Maybe, right now, I have to sacrifice some things. Maybe I have to sacrifice 50 shots a game to make sure the chemistry is good, we’re flowing, whatever. We need to know how we’re going to play. So, when it gets that time, everyone is confident, everyone is ready to go. That’s how I see things.”
- Center Nerlens Noel, who has been working his way back from a foot injury since being traded from the Knicks, participated in his first practice on Tuesday, Edwards tweets. It would be surprising if Noel played this week, but he could get some rotation minutes while Marvin Bagley III recovers from a right knee injury, which is expected to sideline him for at least three or four weeks.
- Along with Bagley, Alec Burks (left navicular fracture) and Isaiah Livers (right hip) are also listed as out for Wednesday’s season opener against Orlando, Mike Curtis of the Detroit News tweets.
Detroit is slowly but surely building their next contending roster, and I love what they’re doing.
Cunningham, Ivey, Bey, Stewart, Duren, and adding some vets like Noel, Bagley, and Bogdanovic should only help…
Hayes has been their only hiccup recently, but there is still alot of talent there and he’s still very young. I could easily see Hayes taking a step forwards continuing to grow as the leader of their second unit. He will need to continue growing his offensive game, become more efficient, and he can continue maturing as the season goes along in a relatively low pressure role.
Give this group a second or two to grow together, gel, and strengthen its depth along the way, and the Pistons will be looking like a real threat moving forward..
It’s been awhile since I’ve been excited about the Pistons. They’re not a contending team right now. They’re a young team that in a year or two should be in the playoffs. 2-3 years possibly in the conference finals. That might sound like a leap but consider this.. they’ll have roughly $40+ million in cap space next year to sign a max free agent. From 3 years of Troy Weaver says he will spread that out to multiple players. But guys sees what he has built and wants to be part of it. How can you not be excited about the Pistons future? It’s not happening this year but next look out.
A lot to be excited about for the future of the Detroit Pistons for sure.
I wish Gores would sell the team. He isn’t a great owner like bill davidson was