Detroit Pistons: How did this get even worse?

Detroit Pistons: How did this get even worse?

What can I say about the Pistons that hasn’t already been said because we’re coming up on about two months plus of them not winning a game we’re coming up on four years of the Pistons not really making any progress in any way shape or form and even through this losing streak which as

I make this video is at 28 straight games there really hasn’t been an even a sign that something will change besides Tom Gore’s going to the media and being like yeah we’re going to make some changes of course and but I don’t buy it you

Know every day I wake up now and I wait for a tweet from wge or Shams saying that the Detroit Pistons have made some kind of move whether whether they fire Troy Weaver whether they clear house entirely whether they make a trade for a competent bench player every

Day I wait for that kind of shakeup to this team but it never shows up just waking up every day expecting something to happen but it doesn’t and it’s wild because this is the most media coverage of my Pistons that I’ve ever seen in my life because again the 2004 championship

Before social media I’m talking about social media has Amplified the amount of coverage that this Detroit Pistons team has gotten and it’s it’s not good it’s like we have our own Not Top 10 not I don’t think we have our own Not Top 10 on Sports Center but it’s in that vein of

That we are in the public Spotlight and not in a a good way like we’re now we’re like our the streak has gotten so bad that we’re getting covered by nons Sports Outlets like this is history every bad team after this is going to get compared to this year’s

Detroit Pistons you see what I’m saying where where we know in history where we the bad basketball team or any form of bad basketball shows up it used to be you talk about the Bobcats that won seven games right that torch has somehow been passed and The Season’s not even

Over yet do you guys understand how Wild this is the most astonishing thing about this losing streak is that you feel like this can’t get worse and yet somehow it does cuz the Celtics loss like that was like a loss but hope was added to it you

Know there have been some games where yeah we lost by over 30 to the Sixers but that means that the game was over after the first quarter like don’t give me hope that we could win a game if we’re not going to win the game you know

That that kind of loss hurts more than anything I’d rather get absolutely destroyed by like the end of the second quarter than to blow a 19point halftime lead in one quarter of play unreal that is UN I I can’t I have never seen a lead evaporate that quickly just never have

Seen it that quickly oh my God I was on an airplane I was watching this on the plane I had Wi-Fi I had Delta Wi-Fi Delta didn’t have um NBA TV on the plane they had NFL network but not NBA TV uh Delta please reassess um I digress dude I was

Streaming on WiFi and sometimes the NBA TV like the the signal would cut out so um I refreshed and by the time I refreshed a 19point lead turned into a 13 or 12o lead and oh my God but the thing is is that even though it was a new scenario

For this losing streak it still felt all too predictable I had friends that are pissing fans text me I wonder how this is going to get worse this isn’t I like waiting for the gut punch because that’s where morale is among Pistons fans right now there is no optimism that this

Situation will get better because there hasn’t been an inkling or a shred of progress in four years how do we get our franchise guy back we get our franchise guy back in K him back from injury made a huge Splash along with Jaylen Duran in the

Team USA practices like that was a real sign of like wow Kade and Jaylen dur were doing so well in these practices like people were like yeah I’m I’m s I’m like really Detroit could do it and we came into the season not the most hype

In the world but like we came into the season being like wow even though Detroit whiffed on a couple of picks they might be turning a corner this year no and I was also talking to a friend about this earlier I would have rather they just started the season on a 28

Game losing streak than starting the season uh two- one almost 3 and0 we almost beat the heat I would have rather this the losing streak started as soon as the season started because it almost just doesn’t compute we were we were we appeared so ready to turn a corner and then Jaylen

Duren gets hurt and then the cracks in the front office and the roster really start to show right because you can’t win games with a front Court of James wisman Marvin Bagley and Isaiah Stewart uh one Isaiah Stewart is undersized so I don’t I wouldn’t have

Him as a starter I would have him on my team as a backup big for sure um but the thing is is that now your your front Court was down to like James wisman who basically is like basketball Bambi when he’s like when Bambi is learning how to uh Walk On Ice

I haven’t seen the movie in a while he’s basically like basketball Bambi still learning how to play the NBA game right dude went from like what playing three games in college and then like Warriors weird stint now he comes to our team it’s wild man and this is the worst

Roster construction I’ve seen on a team dude it it sucks because you have your guy you have K Cunningham I have no problems with K Cunningham honestly yeah he needs to cut back on turnovers sometimes but with the situation that he’s been handed I am not

Going to be like where are these where are these turnovers coming from I’m not going to like pretend that this situation is not detrimental to anybody that has anything creative to give on offense right on top of that this season you had so many people in the injury

Report at a time like one time I think there’s like seven or eight people on an injury report at one point during the streak and that one you were like oh I we could understand we’re we’re missing half of the team and then it was cool to

See Stanley Amud play it was cool to see glimpses from assar Thompson Marcus Sasser all of that I did not expect my morale to get even lower once this team got healthier like I wasn’t expecting like bogonovich to save the team from all this but I wasn’t expecting to be

Like wow they really is Noah hope I was expecting to at least win a game by now it also annoys me to the fact of no end that Monty Williams plays Alec Burks and Isaiah livers way more minutes than than anyone in the fan base wants

Just way more like these guys you know how there’s an NBA archetype where it’s like if these guys aren’t shooting well they shouldn’t be on the court well these two aren’t shooting well but they’re still getting all of this playing time meanwhile Monty Williams put Jay and Ivy

In like Monopoly jail for a clean month of the season dude the fact that Monty Williams now I know this is there’s this is partially not his fault but Monty Williams has played 17 different starting lineups in 31 games that’s wild to me and I understand because this

Team isn’t wasn’t healthy for a while and also there are not many options on this team if you want to be competitive right you knew that something was wrong with this roster when we signed Kevin Knox and he immediately started starting that is nuts to me I mean he start I think Kevin

Knox started a game before Jaden Ivy did this season this is when I knew that we were in for a wild ride and I know that the blame is not 100% on Monty Williams I I don’t blame any of the players dude the and the players I don’t know I I

Can’t imagine how demoralizing this must be to not only like be losing these games but to be losing these games and this being the only form of like media attention this team has gotten in a while like I can’t remember the last time I saw like Detroit Pistons segments

On ESPN sports center bleach report I cannot remember the last time that’s the thing about Detroit for the last like five years or whatever you get like one or two national TV games and I’m not counting NBA TV you know and but now if you go to Twitter whenever the Pistons

Are playing it suddenly must C TV because like it feels like almost every fan base in the league that’s not the team that we’re currently playing is rooting for us to Beat the Streak and it feels like every game has a new intensity because you don’t want to be that team

That loses to barely an NBA team and also the thing that Cade says when he’s like we’re not two and 26 he said that at the time I believe him I know that this this team that has more talented pieces than their record indicates you

Would think that a team an NBA team with like that goes two and 26 you’d probably be like oh man there is no potential there at all no that’s not true K Cunningham Jaylen durren dude Jaylen Duran’s going to be so special and I just hope that we as the

Pistons it’s very terrifying because we know that the front office is very likely to squander any potential in the near future I am very terrified that we’re going to get another like Blake Griffin thing where it’s like yeah we’ll make a trade we’ll try to make a

Splash but we’re but it will be a trade that will be a short-term solution to a long-term problem and then in turn create a longer term problem like when we were when I saw the trade rumors for like Zack LaVine I was like what’s that going to

Do besides buy the front office a little bit more time I’m sorry that this video is a little bit un uh filtered unhinged there’s no real Direction I just think there’s a lot of thoughts on my mind with just how this roster really does not complement each other other in any

Way shape or form right I can go down the roster too K Cunningham dude special player but he’s one of those he’s one of those players that thrives thrives off of space and a lob threat right Jaylen Duran’s that lob threat it’s really hard to find three actual floor spacers on

The Pistons like there are players on this roster that are floor spacers in name right like if Alec Burks and Isaiah livers were like hitting the threes that they’re avertised to hit this would be a way different conversation honestly but they’re not just shooting like pedestrian they’re shooting like

Historic like not historic it’s really bad splits Jade iy I feel like he has those flashes and I love Jade Ivy uh his mid-range is struggling a little bit and with how stagnant this offense gets it’s a little bit necessary to do that um bogdanovic like bogdanovich is fine I

Think he he has these moments when he tries to turn into Shay Gil just Alexander and his degree of difficulty on shots just like I’m like all right man because there’s some shots that he takes where you’re like that’s not going in why are we why are we bothering with

This but at the same time that’s what happens when you have a team with just absolutely no shot creation whatsoever jayen durren is fine I really don’t have anything to say about Jaylen durren I know sometimes he’ll take a jumper or two and like the opposing team

Will comment and be like that’s not really in his repertoire I I that’s that’s fine dude you’re that that’s that’s the least of our problems right now Isaiah Stewart though I am one of those people where I’m like Isaiah Stewart and Jaylen durren I cannot stand any more double

Big starting lineups dude and yeah Isaiah Stewart is a is he’s been shooting well average wise but spacing wise he doesn’t command the attack I which is interesting where it’s like Isaiah Stewart’s still shooting well from Beyond The Arc but it feels like NBA teams are like will still live with

That so it still makes Cade’s job harder and if the pass isn’t like perfectly on target Isaiah Stewart’s not going to shoot that ball also if I see one more Isaiah Stewart hook shot it it’s just going to make me even sadder because it’s like I don’t care what like there’s

Not really a possession where that’s the shot you want taken and that’s the thing with a lot of people on this team is like there there are a lot of players on this team where at this moment you do not want the possession to end with like

You do not want a Pistons possession right now to end with an assar Thompson Corner three and that the assar use puzzles me a lot because his minutes have been cut a lot and I feel like if you’re going to cut his minutes he might

As well play for the G league right now I I need assar Thompson to have a playground to be able to mess up develop some stuff work on the game work on creating a shot do whatever you want in the G League I would love for that to

Happen him and sasher cuz sometimes Sasser plays and then sometimes he just sits and that I can say that for a lot of these Pistons players because the rotation is as wishy-washy as Monty Williams decides also so the Marvin baggley dmps recently are a little bit interesting I think the

Thing that breaks this team a lot the most is the all bench lineup we can’t have that like we do not have the NBA talent to go bench for bench with any bench in the league we do not we can’t do it I guess that brings me to Killian

Hayes which I’m very neutral on Killian Hayes now like I’ve seen the good and I think I I really believe that there is a role for kilan Hayes out there in today’s NBA probably as a backup point guard most likely I think that there’s a role

For that I just don’t think that that could be on our team because we do not have the players on the team that can help killing Hayes and we barely have players on the team that help each other Isaiah Stewart is not the best lob threat for cage in pick and pick and

Roll all right Monty Williams played assar Thompson of the three to start the season so then you had assar and Jaylen Duran play together which flicked less spacing for Kade and jadeen Ivy you had Cade playing next to Killian Hayes that that was a starting backourt and Killian

Hayes off the ball kills possessions which again inflicts Cade I think the thing also about this Pistons fan base is that for Monty Williams will do these things and the Pistons fan base has will be like dude we’ve been asking you for like two weeks start jadeen Ivy yada y y

We’ve been asking you to do this do this do this and Monty Williams often seems so stuck in his ways that the only way we usually see change for these Pistons coaching one wise is when a player gets hurt jadeen ivy only starts only started sometimes because kilan Hayes got hurt

Or we only saw a one big lineup to start off because Isaiah Stewart got hurt and Monty Williams basically looked at his front court and is like I cannot start Marvin baggley and jayen Duren together or wisan and durren together or wisman and Bagley together I I literally can’t

I have no choice but to start it makes it feel like Moneyball dude I forget what the player was when I think it was Scott hadberg he want he wanted hadberg to play First and the manager didn’t want to do it so the owner oh

Sorry the GM traded the guy so he’s like you have to play this guy now that’s what it feels like and that’s not how I want change implemented on my favorite basketball team I haven’t even talked about the front office office yet it it doesn’t feel nothing is worse in sports than

Having a than having the feeling that the front office really doesn’t have a plan really doesn’t care and I know that like I don’t really like the owner not being in the picture like that’s not like I’m not being like Tom Gore should but actually no I take it back I would

Love to have an owner that actually shows up to the games that would be cool like a bomber or Cuban like that would be interesting I know I know that’s like a hard ask but good Lord man the fact that there’s not even been like a small

Trade not even like a small decision it doesn’t give any fans hope like cut somebody sign like bring up a two-way player we don’t care just just make it feel like you’re not asleep at the wheel but it feels like everybody’s asleep at the wheel ma’am so yeah there’s a part

Of me that wishes that this losing streak ends but there’s a part of me a majority of me that’s like this streak needs to go on for as long as it takes because if not for the public scrutiny the media coverage there would be no pressure on this front office to do

Anything otherwise if the entire NBA world wasn’t watching the Pistons be this bad then we would definitely have zero faith into what’s going on or like what’s happening later so that’s why I feel like this is like a Last Week Tonight when they’re like what can you

Do to what can we do about fixing this team public shame just shaming them man because this is organizational malpractice there’s no way around it this is one of the worst seasons I’ve ever endured as a sports fan and it’s not even halfway over I can tell I

Watched my Bengals go two and 14 this is this is worse than anything that has ever because at least with the Bengals it’s like oh we’re going to get Joe burrow with this Pistons scam I’m like oh we’re going to get like the sixth pick or the fifth pick or whatever

We’re we’re not going to get a high pick also it’s been widely documented as not a wrong draft which doesn’t make me feel any better but that’s the thing nothing about this makes me feel any better I just feel really sorry for the players because I know I look up and down this

Roster and I know for most of them that you would be in a way better situation if you weren’t on this team and that really reflects on the ineptitude of the front office and Monty Williams isn’t really helping either these bizarre decisions and this is a young team that needs a sense of

Stability I feel like and I feel like this has been the most unstable team in the league so I don’t really see an end in sight but the thing is even if we break this losing streak we’re just going to start another one you see what

I’m saying if we start another one the media is not going to care anymore they’re going to go away the losing streaks over let’s go cover something else the pressure will feel off people will turn away for a little bit and then all that’s left is US Pistons fans who

Have been patiently waiting for four years and then this front office will probably be like well glad that’s over what are we doing again and that’s what’s going to that’s what’s going to suck most of all I can see it now this team is very predictable this organization this regime is very

Predictable and I don’t know what to do I watch every game cuz I’m rooting for the losses not I’m not rooting against the players I’m just rooting for each loss as a wakeup call to make a change that’s where I’m am that’s where I am at this point and it’s a shame

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