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The Pistons’ offseason plan is built around flexibility: use draft assets only when the value is right, keep winning on the margins and add shooting around the core. They also believe the Eastern Conference is tougher, so success will be measured more by playoff readiness than by a win total.
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Tray, Genezu, obviously there's a lot of different philosophies on how to build a team
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and I think one that's really popular amongst fans or kind of casual fans can be professionally said is screw them picks, for lack of better terms
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But I think last deadline only one team over 500 actually traded a first-round pick
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between some of the different changes to lottery rules, salary cap, things that are factored in
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Does it change your calculus as far as how you go about acquiring and utilizing
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draft assets? I think we're always trying to find ways to get better. Sometimes it's through
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trades where you're spending draft picks or you're receiving them. We have an exceptional
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strategy ytics group that I think has put us in a really good position with things that we've
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done and players that we've acquired these past transaction periods of the past two seasons
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And so we'll keep looking to win on the margins with that. And if what you're getting at is using
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picks to acquire players to get us better. We'll always look at that, right
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But it's got to be the right value at the right time with the right player for us
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Talking about that, I thought we, a player that we brought in in the offseason with two
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second round picks was Isaiah Joe that we're extremely excited about. And I think he's going to help on both ends of the floor
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Obviously brings a championship pedigree. We didn't use any picks to acquire Kevin Herter, but I do believe if he would have been on
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the roster and he wasn't hurt, we could have won the second series and gone on
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And he looks great this summer. We're looking forward to having him back. So those are the two, those are some of the latest acquisitions that we've had that I
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think will help us going forward. When you look at overall landscape with the Heat, though, it's getting more competitive
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than you look at Philadelphia. A lot of the teams that's made bigger moves
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I mean, overall, what do you think of your off season? Do you think that cool draw as a team coming in So I guess I thought some coming back in this season after a 69 season and some of the things you all was able to do Sure Good question I think the East is much tougher than it was last year
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not only with the acquisition of some players in certain markets, but also returning players that had injuries last year as well
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I don't know that any team in the East wins 60 just because it's going to be that competitive
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So that's not going to be the barometer of our success. Are we going to win more games than we did last year
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it's can we be a better team come playoff time than we were last year
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Obviously, you've got to get there, but I think that's what a lot went into the decisions that were made on the roster this season
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is can we be a better team, can we be more versatile, can we have more options on both ends of the floor
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And so I think for large parts of this season, we'll be figuring out what that means
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And so hopefully we can get to the postseason when we do. There's nothing we haven't seen and there's nothing, you know, there's a ton of optionality and versatility that can be deployed and used by our coach and staff with our roster
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And what areas do you think your team will be better? I think we'll be able to spread the floor better
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I think we have more shooting at different positions too. and so I think that was important for us
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in letting our key three players, our core three players, Gabe, Asar, and GD
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just have more room to operate. And I think, you know, with being able to stretch the floor
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it's not only line of vision, attacking areas, finishing around the rim with less people
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and then all of a sudden if you do that, you get more open shots, which you can make shots
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And so we're excited about that. Those are some things we thought could
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And I think we've made it, I hope we've made an adjustment for it obviously opening the floor and then bringing in
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some players that are low turnover. It cuts the turnovers down too as well
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Which would help us be more efficient
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