Weavers letter to the fans.

[Manocad]

I for one think the pistons are doing it right. We have only sucked for 3 years and have acquired some good assets in that time. If we don't get screwed with the draft and at least get a top three pick this team will have a lot of potential moving forward. You can't be good and acquire good young talent at the same time. Your either Dallas and find a superstar and struggle to put pieces around him or OKC (Durant era) way and get 3 to 4 years of high draft picks and groom them.

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Look, if people in this forum say that Weaver is doing it all wrong then he's doing it wrong and should be fired, period. No one knows better how to run an NBA team than the posters in this forum.

[A_dub06]

Weaver = Hinkie.

If Casey isn't fired the day after the season it's time to abandon ship.

Why do you want VW to Portland?

Yeah, wtf?

[bstein14]

I for one think the pistons are doing it right. We have only sucked for 3 years and have acquired some good assets in that time. If we don't get screwed with the draft and at least get a top three pick this team will have a lot of potential moving forward. You can't be good and acquire good young talent at the same time. Your either Dallas and find a superstar and struggle to put pieces around him or OKC (Durant era) way and get 3 to 4 years of high draft picks and groom them.

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Look, if people in this forum say that Weaver is doing it all wrong then he's doing it wrong and should be fired, period. No one knows better how to run an NBA team than the posters in this forum.

The method of getting out of the fight for the 8th seed, and being really bad for a few years to get top talent in the draft is correct for sure. FA spending, trades, and the actual picks made have been pretty hit or miss.

We've clearly hit rock bottom this year with a 16 win season.... so its got to be nothing but up from here.... its just a matter of how high we can climb. It's got to be pretty linear from this point we can't afford to have next year be a 32 win season, and the following be back to 25 again. We pretty much need multiple years of going up in wins now or we're in a really bad spot as a franchise and the young guys aren't developing into NBA level talent.

The worst thing is, as others have mentioned... unless we hit VW and/or do really well in FA we're still going to have a hard time next year putting ourselves out of the bottom and into the hunt for the play-in games.

[DBC10]

“Please still buy season tickets for next season.”

That said, if we get wembanyama then those tickets will sell themselves.

Pretty much this. If VW is half as good as his hype suggests, season tickets will fly off the shelves primarily due to him. People will quite literally fly to DTW to see him

Really can't be underestimated here, how palpable his hype is

[Kilo]

Weaver = Hinkie.

If Casey isn't fired the day after the season it's time to abandon ship.

Why do you want VW to Portland?

Didn't tank. Love Lillard not going the super team route and wanting to be in Portland and win and lose there.

[flow]

Weaver = Hinkie.

If Casey isn't fired the day after the season it's time to abandon ship.

Why do you want VW to Portland?

Didn't tank. Love Lillard not going the super team route and wanting to be in Portland and win and lose there.

In our defense, we'd be in pretty much the same position even if we hadn't tanked.

[vege]

Weaver = Hinkie.

If Casey isn't fired the day after the season it's time to abandon ship.

Why do you want VW to Portland?

Didn't tank. Love Lillard not going the super team route and wanting to be in Portland and win and lose there.

Lillard was an **** tampering on Grant and kinda forcing us to donating him to Portland tho.

[zeebneeb]

Why do you want VW to Portland?

Didn't tank. Love Lillard not going the super team route and wanting to be in Portland and win and lose there.

Lillard was an **** tampering on Grant and kinda forcing us to donating him to Portland tho.

It was not a Donation. That ended up landing Duren.

[Spider156]

I for one think the pistons are doing it right. We have only sucked for 3 years and have acquired some good assets in that time. If we don't get screwed with the draft and at least get a top three pick this team will have a lot of potential moving forward. You can't be good and acquire good young talent at the same time. Your either Dallas and find a superstar and struggle to put pieces around him or OKC (Durant era) way and get 3 to 4 years of high draft picks and groom them.

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Look, if people in this forum say that Weaver is doing it all wrong then he's doing it wrong and should be fired, period. No one knows better how to run an NBA team than the posters in this forum.

The method of getting out of the fight for the 8th seed, and being really bad for a few years to get top talent in the draft is correct for sure. FA spending, trades, and the actual picks made have been pretty hit or miss.

We've clearly hit rock bottom this year with a 16 win season.... so its got to be nothing but up from here.... its just a matter of how high we can climb. It's got to be pretty linear from this point we can't afford to have next year be a 32 win season, and the following be back to 25 again. We pretty much need multiple years of going up in wins now or we're in a really bad spot as a franchise and the young guys aren't developing into NBA level talent.

The worst thing is, as others have mentioned... unless we hit VW and/or do really well in FA we're still going to have a hard time next year putting ourselves out of the bottom and into the hunt for the play-in games.

Because we can’t make the jump defensively without a big acquisition. If we don’t get VW or Scoot I can see us being a bottom 8 team next year. Which unfortunately is improvement but it’s negligent because our talent still needs to grow and it means we didn’t hit right in free agency either. If we don’t hit in lottery and free agency I really hope we can hit on a trade. I’d trade pick 4-5 down to get two picks or lower pick and good free agent sign and trade like with Toronto for OG.

[vege]

Didn't tank. Love Lillard not going the super team route and wanting to be in Portland and win and lose there.

Lillard was an **** tampering on Grant and kinda forcing us to donate him to Portland tho.

It was not a Donation. That ended up landing Duren.

It wasn't Grant for Duren. A very small piece of the part of the package for Duren was the awful 1st we got from the Grant trade.

[Spider156]

Weaver = Hinkie.

If Casey isn't fired the day after the season it's time to abandon ship.

Why do you want VW to Portland?

Didn't tank. Love Lillard not going the super team route and wanting to be in Portland and win and lose there.

And get paid 50m a year. I would love that too. With no pressure to win a championship? That's the best deal you can get.

[Mr Peanut]

Lillard was an **** tampering on Grant and kinda forcing us to donate him to Portland tho.

It was not a Donation. That ended up landing Duren.

It wasn't Grant for Duren. A very small piece of the part of the package for Duren was the awful 1st we got from the Grant trade.

The unprotected 2025 Bucks pick we got for Grant was the most meaningful aspect of the trade to get Duren. We also had to eat Kemba's contract. But you don't get a late lottery pick for just eating 9M of salary.

[Kalamazoo317]

If this roster was healthy this season (Cade included) I think they win 25 games. I think they could get to 30 next year just with injury luck and internal improvement. Add in a top 5 pick and possible free agent acquisitions and we'll see.