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1. Who are your free agents and what percentage would you put on them re-signing?

2. What are your team needs and the overall short term goals of the team?

3. Is there any reason your coach may not be in place next year?

4. Who are you willing to trade?

1. Ish Smith, Zaza Pachulia, Jose Calderon and potentially Glenn Robinson III (Team Option)
Ish is probably the only one we consider bringing back and it will depend on cost. He's making $6M this season - we have $15M under the tax, probably use Tax Payer MLE of $5.3M, so have $10M to spend on three FA roster spots.

Ish 50%
Pachulia 5% Vet minimum again
Calderon 5% I hope not, but Casey likes the guy.
Robinson 0%

2. Team needs is a PGOTF, a current PG starter upgrade and wings, wings, wings. Short term goal of the team is to get out of cap hell while still pretending to "compete".

3. None. Barring health issues.

4. Everybody. Though Blake Griffin is probably NOT going to be moved, and ownership believes he's BFF's with Drummond so he's probably not being moved.

1) What Kilo said.

2) Smith- 25%- He's a solid backup point guard who I could see getting an offer to be backup for a better team. We'd certainly like to keep him though- he's a good guy to have around in general.

Pachulia- 5%- Yeah, he probably moves on after this season. You never know I guess.

Calderon- 0%- I don't see Casey having enough pull to keep him around, and he no longer belongs on an NBA roster. I expect him to retire.

Robinson- 0%- Hugely disappointing signing- good thing we didn't commit to a second year with him, he's been the worst of an extremely unimpressive group of wings. We definiltely move on.

3) He'll definitely be back. You don't fire a guy after one year after giving him that contract, and I doubt they blame him for the struggles. Stefanski knows what he inherited.

4) You're really asking 2 questions here. 1) Who do the fans think is movable? 2) Who is the FO willing to trade.

I'd say everyone except (most likely, barring a major offer) whoever we draft in round 1 this year is probably readily movable in the eyes of fans. I think whether or not we'd consider moving Blake in the offseason is a valid and open question. Fans are open to it, not sure what the brass thinks, but it's very possible they consider him untradable. I think anybody else is up for grabs no matter who you ask, though. I disagree somewhat with Kilo and think we're probably pretty willing to move Drummond.

Snakebites wrote:1) What Kilo said.

2) Smith- 25%- He's a solid backup point guard who I could see getting an offer to be backup for a better team. We'd certainly like to keep him though- he's a good guy to have around in general.

Pachulia- 5%- Yeah, he probably moves on after this season. You never know I guess.

Calderon- 0%- I don't see Casey having enough pull to keep him around, and he no longer belongs on an NBA roster. I expect him to retire.

Robinson- 0%- Hugely disappointing signing- good thing we didn't commit to a second year with him, he's been the worst of an extremely unimpressive group of wings. We definiltely move on.

3) He'll definitely be back. You don't fire a guy after one year after giving him that contract, and I doubt they blame him for the struggles. Stefanski knows what he inherited.

4) You're really asking 2 questions here. 1) Who do the fans think is movable? 2) Who is the FO willing to trade.

I'd say everyone except (most likely, barring a major offer) whoever we draft in round 1 this year is probably readily movable in the eyes of fans. I think whether or not we'd consider moving Blake in the offseason is a valid and open question. Fans are open to it, not sure what the brass thinks, but it's very possible they consider him untradable. I think anybody else is up for grabs no matter who you ask, though. I disagree somewhat with Kilo and think we're probably pretty willing to move Drummond.

What would the Pistons look for from a Drummond trade?

NYG wrote:

Snakebites wrote:1) What Kilo said.

2) Smith- 25%- He's a solid backup point guard who I could see getting an offer to be backup for a better team. We'd certainly like to keep him though- he's a good guy to have around in general.

Pachulia- 5%- Yeah, he probably moves on after this season. You never know I guess.

Calderon- 0%- I don't see Casey having enough pull to keep him around, and he no longer belongs on an NBA roster. I expect him to retire.

Robinson- 0%- Hugely disappointing signing- good thing we didn't commit to a second year with him, he's been the worst of an extremely unimpressive group of wings. We definiltely move on.

3) He'll definitely be back. You don't fire a guy after one year after giving him that contract, and I doubt they blame him for the struggles. Stefanski knows what he inherited.

4) You're really asking 2 questions here. 1) Who do the fans think is movable? 2) Who is the FO willing to trade.

I'd say everyone except (most likely, barring a major offer) whoever we draft in round 1 this year is probably readily movable in the eyes of fans. I think whether or not we'd consider moving Blake in the offseason is a valid and open question. Fans are open to it, not sure what the brass thinks, but it's very possible they consider him untradable. I think anybody else is up for grabs no matter who you ask, though. I disagree somewhat with Kilo and think we're probably pretty willing to move Drummond.

What would the Pistons look for from a Drummond trade?

Detroit is not moving Drummond. It was reported SVG tried to trade him twice and both times the owner blocked the trade. Gores has always been in love with Drummond, so Kilo is correct in what he said. Everybody else should be very available tho.

Ish Smith has been a journey man his entire career, I even remember I posted a video some time ago abou him and how many teams he played in his career and how many times he got traded.

He has finally been with a team for the entire length of his contract and our record this season without Ish Smith is brutal (yes I know we had a rough stretch of games while Ish was out but still we were really bad without him)

So I believe we know how important he is to the team and I also believe he really want to stay in the same place, some players value that a lot, Lou Williams is a good example, he signed a very cheap contract because he didn't want to continue to bounce back from team to team like he did his entire career, Ish is no Lou, but I think he want to be back and our pathetic front office want to bring him back, so I think there's a 99% chance he will be back.

Also I disagree with Kilo about the team needs, last offseason we drafted 2 wingers (Brown and Thomas) and we spent our MLE to sign Robinson (a winger) and both 2nd rounders. 2nd rounders are always a long project and a crap shot, and Ed Stefanski said as much after the draft, I think both Thomas and Brown has shown enough to prove they're worth a roster spot, but they didn't show enough to prove they'll fill our wing needs any time soon. GRIII was just a disaster sign.

Luke missed the summer league and training camp, and early in the season he had a shoulder injury and a hand injury if I'm not mistaken, so he is not where everyone expected him to be in his development. He has shown enough to make people believe he might be a solid NBA rotation player but he is not even close to be a reliable starter at this point and he might never be one.

We gave away the only competent wing player we had and we given up on Stanley Johnson (way too late but at least we're not bringing him back) So our wing situation next offseason should be worse than it was last offseason, when we already dedicated all our assets trying to find a player to fill that void.

So the FO probably believe we need to find competent wingers and Reggie Jackson and Ish Smith are fine for now at the point (even tho they're not great and I would love to see Reggie Jackson gone asap).

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