theBigLip wrote:A_dub06 wrote:Trade Duren for a better wing, draft Sarr. Duren sucks on defence and who cares about dunking rebounders? Sarr in his rookie season will at minimum be as good as Duren on the defensive end but I think he will be better, and offensively his ceiling is pretty high. The pistons need a talent injection period, we can talk about getting veteran guys and more shooters but at the end of the day they are devoid of top tier talent. If this team passes on Sarr which has the potential to be a really impactful player for someone like one of UK’s guards or Zaccharie I’ll be livid.
This draft sucks, and moving off Duren before the rest of the league realises how bad his defence is will only help us
Agree the draft sucks. But Duren? What's wrong with a dunking rebounder for a 20 year old? You don't think he has a chance to improve on D? Athletically, he can certainly do it. But a big part of team D is seeing plays develop before they actually happen. That just takes reps. His dunking/rebounding is keeping him on the floor while he gets those reps. Let's not dump him until he's at least old enough to drink
Duren has not improved on defence at all this season, that is scary considering a player of his archetype is supposed to be able to defend the rim which is where a lot of the value of that type of player comes from. Without good defence, he’s just a garbage man and that doesn’t hold much value. Players can get better at defence but they don’t go from bad (which Duren is) to great, I can’t recall that ever happening. I’d prefer to trade him now whilst he still holds better “potential” in other teams eyes before it’s clear league wide he’s not a good defender and he looses his shine. Plus I think it’s pretty obvious he’s not going to ever stretch the floor.
When you consider all this and holding onto Duren will most likely see his trade value decrease, then factor in even what Sarr potentially has I think its an incredibly easy call to make given all the question marks the other players have in this draft.
We really need top tier talent, I get that people are sick of losing and so am I, but there’s no point in signing someone that’s not really going to help just to take even the slightest inch forward, and stop looking at draft picks when your roster is as bad as our. We need talent, bottom line. Weaver has messed up time and time again, creating a roster that doesn’t fit and players that probably won’t even become real impact players (Ivey/Duren) and overvalued others too long to the point we missed out on capitalising (Bojan and to an extent Stew).
