Official Detroit Pistons thread

[Futureshock]

[froot loops]

[Cody_Russell]

Feels like a “meh” signing.
As a player, fine rotational 4 or 5 that hopefully comes off the bench and gives you ~20 minutes a game. That’s what Olynk did for the Heat when they made the Finals.
The contract. Overpaid.
Reminds me of when the Pistons signed Jon Leuer for 4 years, ~$40M. Not good.
OR it’s just the Plumlee deal again, but you’re changing up the style of the player given the direction of the roster.

[froot loops]

He is better than Leuer ever was, that was a truly puzzling signing. Olynyk has at least accomplished stuff, he can be rotational player on a good playoff team.

[The King]

The Pistons just signed three guys from Canada……to play basketball.

[Forsh]

Amazingly, all 3 had prior basketball playing experience 🤣

[Forsh]

2 of them were even former lottery picks!

[froot loops]

Those other two might not even be JAGs.

[Forsh]

Joseph is fine for a backup PG. Olynyk is useful. Lyles is kinda useless

[froot loops]

If Joseph plays like he did for the Pistons last season, it's OK.

[Cody_Russell]

This makes the Olynyk contract better:

Couple of 2 year deals to address depth across the board on the roster.

[froot loops]

Considering the dollars being handed out tonight, it's an OK contract. Having tradeable contracts is neat as important as just having true cap soace. Tonight is a sign that the vaunted 2022 free agent class is going to be leaner. Some of those potential free agents came off the board tonight.

[jaadam4]

The Pistons aren’t going to be major players in FA until we see what we’ve got with this young core especially Cade. Until then these a reasonable contracts not tying our hands for many years to come.

Thank goodness SVG isn’t here anymore

[Futureshock]

He is better than Leuer ever was, that was a truly puzzling signing. Olynyk has at least accomplished stuff, he can be rotational player on a good playoff team.

The bigs they have acquired this off season are shooters/scorers.

I go to Youtube and the first video is some schlub in Chicago talking about how terrible the guy is and he just made the video because he (Kelly) is now off the HOU team. That this signing was so bad that it set DET back years, blah, blah, blah... He went on to say he didn't know anything about the Detroit roster... WTF.

You guys know I couldn't resist letting him have it. I couldn't believe people actually listen to THAT guy and then I thought of the current state of the world

[whatever_gong82]

The bigs they have acquired this off season are shooters/scorers.

I go to Youtube and the first video is some schlub in Chicago talking about how terrible the guy is and he just made the video because he (Kelly) is now off the HOU team. That this signing was so bad that it set DET back years, blah, blah, blah... He went on to say he didn't know anything about the Detroit roster... WTF.

You guys know I couldn't resist letting him have it. I couldn't believe people actually listen to THAT guy and then I thought of the current state of the world

If the Chicago guy is a Bulls fan, you can remind him that just like the Dallas Cowboys, the Bulls haven't been seriously relevant since the 1990's.