RealGM

What do you think SVG and Co's best move so far since they took over? The beautiful part about this poll is every player has potential and we don't know which player will become the next star of the team. I mean we have Johnson and Harris now, the potential is up there specially with Johnson. In my opinion, the best short term move was waiving the loser and the best long term move was getting Stanley Johnson. He's going to be the player that takes us to contention and we'll see it happen sooner than we think. He's growing up fast on the court and his mindset is there. Surround him with a harder worker in Harris? They might become best friends. Drummond is right there following the lead of his teammates. This team's potential is up there next Golden State. Granted we don't have as much talent but we're young and bouncing and we have these players guaranteed for at least another...3 years! Incredible considering we still have a draft pick haha

Gotta be RJ. A long term starting PG for peanuts?

Waiving team destroyer. Easy. I know it's sexy to say any of his other moves but this one signaled to Piston fans;

The buck stops here, and the bull is over.

I think even Stan was emboldened by that move and has been ultra aggressive since that time.

zeebneeb wrote:Waiving team destroyer. Easy. I know it's sexy to say any of his other moves but this one signaled to Piston fans;

The buck stops here, and the bull is over.

I think even Stan was emboldened by that move and has been ultra aggressive since that time.

Agree. I picked that as well, half jokingly (just glad to see him gone), half serious. Sure it might not be as tangible a move as adding a future star to the team for peanuts, but I think this is the move that set everything else in motion and signaled an organizational attitude change.

waiving who most not be named

Waiving Smith was excellent, and something Dumars at the end of his tenure would have never done. That's what you gotta love about SVG...his activity. Him/Bower are actively trying to improve the team through trades rather than just being content to draft and develop, or hope a big name FA signs with us.

Anyway, I have to choose the Reggie trade. DJA and Singler are end of the rotation guys...we gave up nothing and got a top 10 PG in return.

I said Reggie because you have to fleece another team to do it. Waiving the loser was unilateral. I also recall he'd have been able to move him for a couple guys from the Kings who'd have been less money to stretch or usable bigs, but waited too long.

id say probably cutting away the fat and letting josh go but letting monroe walk was close to that. imo, those two moves are completely different from trading for rj or tobias.

I voted Reggie, but there's lots of good stuff there.

One thing for sure: SVG and Bower have gigantic balls.

Hiring Bower & the scouts

I said the waiving, because I honestly think most newly-hired GMs wouldn't have the balls to flat-out cut a guy making $14M per season. He didn't attach assets to remove him and he didn't accept another team's trash, he just showed him the door. Has any high-profile cutting ever resulted in such immediate on court improvement?

SVG's best move was convincing the world he didn't exist.

(wait a minute, that doesn't work, he's not the devil)

SVG's best moves are convincing other teams to trade with him. Everything trade-related has worked well so far.

Voted Reggie but it's too early to tell. Tobias or Dmo could easily end up being the best move. That's what's so crazy about what SVG has been able to doin less than two years.

Jackson easily imo. We got our franchise PG for nothing.

If we go on a tear to finish this season SVG should be the executive of the year.

I picked Jackson, but looking at all those choices, it has to be Gores hiring SVG in the first place and giving him total control.

Yup, I've got to go with Reggie. I really wanted to say SJ, but there's a lot that has to play out first, though I love the potential there. I also considered dumping Smoove, but I wanted to go with something that was tangibly positive, not addition by subtraction, though I do agree, that was obviously the turning point for our franchise. Now, I'm just curious/excited to see how SVG fits it all together on the court. Buckle up!

Stupifying Lord Voldemort.

tossing Josh Smith defined an era, as great as these other moves were. I think every Piston fan would point to the Josh waiving as the start of the era we're currently in.

SVG doesn't f with anyone now build an fing wall.