Anything to be excited for this season?

[bstein14]

Seems like once again my excitement for this team is at an all-time low. Last year there was at least a small amount of excitement because of a full year of Blake for the season. But now we've already seen how that was just enough to keep us mediocre and in the 8th seed.

This year there is literally nothing to be excited for. Not a new coach. Derek Rose and Joe Johnson don't do it for me as new FAs I would have been more excited to see a younger player with potential to break out. It seems like our draft pick won't be good enough to contribute right away.

Am I missing something? Am I just getting more depressed about this team after a long decade plus without a playoff win? Are you guys excited about anything this season? Best part of this season for me is that it is hopefully the last for some Pistons who have been here for too long.

[GreekAlex]

While the rest of the league “zigs” with pace and space, Gores and Stefanski are going to “zag” with the teams ultra deep bench.

The Pistons will shock the world and put the NBA on notice. Watch out... YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!

[DetroitPistons]

Yeah, I think we are better than most people think. We got better and mostly everyone else in the East got worse. We also have assets to get even better. It will also be fun to see if the young guys like Kennard, Doumbouya, Brown, Thomas, and even Wood can develop into good players.

[Spider156]

Worth a poll

1. Derrick Rose (Former MVP, incredible talent to watch every game)
2. Blake (The best talent I've seen wearing a Pistons uniform)
3. Joe Johnson (Give him the last 5 mins of the game, can't wait to watch him take over the end of games)
4. Doumbouya
5. Dre (contract year = the most effort we're going to see coming from Dre. Biggest knock on him is motor. Well, it's contract year, no excuse. He might dominate the NBA. I've sen 6-10 games he dominated last season. Looking forward to him becoming a beast)
6. Kennard (Is he a hidden incredible talent? He's proven to be good in the playoffs. Let him develop!)
7. Second year into Playoffs (more experience, better standing? Better chance)
8. So many expirings, so many assets, who are we going to get next? Trade coming
9. Brown, Maker, Wood, Svi, and Thomas. (At any point, any one of these players becoming a legit role player will in my opinion drastically change the depth of the team)
10. The rest of the NBA. Stop obsessing over this one team. Enjoy basketball. Watch other talent. Watch Westbrook and Harden. Appreciate it. Watch Lebron with the best player he's ever played with, he's about to retire. No Giannis will not become half the player Lebron is. Don't take him for granted. Enjoy the season for everything it's about, win or lose. Love the sport!

[GreekAlex]

Worth a poll

1. Derrick Rose (Former MVP, incredible talent to watch every game)
2. Blake (The best talent I've seen wearing a Pistons uniform)
3. Joe Johnson (Give him the last 5 mins of the game, can't wait to watch him take over the end of games)
4. Doumbouya
5. Dre (contract year = the most effort we're going to see coming from Dre. Biggest knock on him is motor. Well, it's contract year, no excuse. He might dominate the NBA. I've sen 6-10 games he dominated last season. Looking forward to him becoming a beast)
6. Kennard (Is he a hidden incredible talent? He's proven to be good in the playoffs. Let him develop!)
7. Second year into Playoffs (more experience, better standing? Better chance)
8. So many expirings, so many assets, who are we going to get next? Trade coming
9. Brown, Maker, Wood, Svi, and Thomas. (At any point, any one of these players becoming a legit role player will in my opinion drastically change the depth of the team)
10. The rest of the NBA. Stop obsessing over this one team. Enjoy basketball. Watch other talent. Watch Westbrook and Harden. Appreciate it. Watch Lebron with the best player he's ever played with, he's about to retire. No Giannis will not become half the player Lebron is. Don't take him for granted. Enjoy the season for everything it's about, win or lose. Love the sport!

No poll needed... I love all 10!

My glass is definitely half full of something

#11. The board will have life again and we can look forward to Dulcers “hard game day facts”.

[MrBigShot]

Since I've been watching this team I can't remember a season I was less excited for than this upcoming one. Only saving grace is that the rest of the NBA looks promising.

[Manocad]

No matter how I think the team will finish, I'll always start the season watching them. That being said, the only specific thing that I have increased interest about is seeing what Rose will do. Sure, I hope I'll see some good things from players other than just Rose but he's the only one I can honestly say I'm feeling increased anticipation about.

[Redeemed]

I'm excited about the development of young guys like Brown, Maker, and Kennard.

I'm excited about the addition of a healthy chip on his shoulder less reckless Derrick Rose.

I'm excited about having Reggie Jackson healthy for the first time in like 2 1/2 seasons.

I'm excited about the addition of Markieff Morris and the toughness he brings because he embodies the toughness Pistons' are supposed to have.

I'm excited to have developmental pieces that solidifies our future in Sekou and Bone.

I'm excited about the potential Svi and Khyri have to break into the rotation.

I'm excited about Iso Slow Mo Joe & Christian Wood.

[Billl]

Excited as in "we might contend"? No. I'm excited for the season to start though. Even a bad pistons game is better than no pistons games.

[The_Irony]

This is the most talented team we've been able to see this decade and people are at an all time low with excitement.

[DBC10]

Since I've been watching this team I can't remember a season I was less excited for than this upcoming one. Only saving grace is that the rest of the NBA looks promising.

Yep. Kind of where I'm at.

It looks largely like the previous season, except Blake's minutes will likely go down so he won't have such a transcendent season as last. Adding Snell, Rose, and Markieff isn't hugely game changing, but I do like what we have in younger pieces. I hope they get a lot of burn as the season progresses.

[MrBigShot]

This is the most talented team we've been able to see this decade and people are at an all time low with excitement.

That says more about how garbage we've been for the rest of the decade than it does about this current team. It's just tough to get excited to watch a treadmill team.

I'm sure we'll have some really great entertaining games throughout the season, but as a whole we will be an irrelevant mediocre squad maybe good enough to sneak into the playoffs but not bad enough to get a franchise changing talent in the lotto.

[theBigLip]

I think many of us forget we were better than an 8 seed. If Blake had been 100% down the stretch, we would have been 6th? And wouldn't have had to play the Bucks in the first round and maybe got us a couple of playoff wins. Buts and ifs...

That being said, a healthy Blake, and bizarrely a healthy RJ, a more experienced Kennard, a second year from Casey, all add up to an interesting year. Playoff bound (regardless of what Zach Lowe said today) and some playoff wins this year!

And regardless of how this season turns out, unless we do something stupid mid season, we will finally have some cap flexibility next summer.

[DetroitPistons]

I think many of us forget we were better than an 8 seed. If Blake had been 100% down the stretch, we would have been 6th? And wouldn't have had to play the Bucks in the first round and maybe got us a couple of playoff wins. Buts and ifs...

That being said, a healthy Blake, and bizarrely a healthy RJ, a more experienced Kennard, a second year from Casey, all add up to an interesting year. Playoff bound (regardless of what Zach Lowe said today) and some playoff wins this year!

And regardless of how this season turns out, unless we do something stupid mid season, we will finally have some cap flexibility next summer.

Yeah, we had 6th pretty much locked up with a healthy Griffin. We could've played the Raptors as a 7th too, who we swept in the regular season. Had it been us playing TOR instead of ORL and gave TOR a tough series the narrative would be very different about us. We also added some great depth and will have internal improvement with Jackson's health and Kennard's development like you mentioned and the East got worse almost across the board.

[Drwho17]

I want to see how that guy at pick 30 we picked up for taking on an extra year of Tony Snell does, Kevin Porter, nice project with some upside, oh wait, nevermind I guess.

[The_Irony]

This is the most talented team we've been able to see this decade and people are at an all time low with excitement.

That says more about how garbage we've been for the rest of the decade than it does about this current team. It's just tough to get excited to watch a treadmill team.

I'm sure we'll have some really great entertaining games throughout the season, but as a whole we will be an irrelevant mediocre squad maybe good enough to sneak into the playoffs but not bad enough to get a franchise changing talent in the lotto.

If you only are excited for a title contender then I dont know what to tell you. Only one team wins the chip and we’ve had complete incompetence for the entire decade. We finally have a coach and front office that has interest in investing the future while trying to win as much as they can now. That works for me since tanking is not an exact science. the idea is to root for a progressing team. A team trying to build an identity and get better.

Svg era set this franchise back 3-7 years and takes patience to deal with the pure idiotic moves jeff bower and svg made.

[Manocad]

This is the most talented team we've been able to see this decade and people are at an all time low with excitement.

Not a single person who was posted in this thread said their excitement level for the upcoming season is at an all time low. A lot of people, including me, have posted that there wasn’t much that RAISED their level of excitement. The all time lows came when we KNEW the season was opening with a 20-something win team.

Forgive us if we’re not getting fully masted over opening the season with a team whose cornerstone players are an oft-injured power forward and a center with motivation/ego issues, and whose key offseason addition was a one-legged former All Star guard. Is major improvement possible? Sure. But as I’ve stated before, possibility and likelihood are not the same.

[Snakebites]

As pessimistic as I generally am in theory, in practice there's always some level of excitement for the season starting, always a sense that this year COULD be different, even if most objective analysis says it won't be.

Heck, there's sometimes even a stretch where it really looks like things are different, like we had at the beginning of last year.

I'll be watching every game for a while. Usually as the season drags on I typically switch to every other game, then one game a week, etc, but yeah, I'm always excited to watch NBA basketball again. There's also plenty of intrigue this season outside of the Pistons that'll be interesting to follow too.

[The_Irony]

This is the most talented team we've been able to see this decade and people are at an all time low with excitement.

Not a single person who was posted in this thread said their excitement level for the upcoming season is at an all time low. A lot of people, including me, have posted that there wasn’t much that RAISED their level of excitement. The all time lows came when we KNEW the season was opening with a 20-something win team.

Forgive us if we’re not getting fully masted over opening the season with a team whose cornerstone players are an oft-injured power forward and a center with motivation/ego issues, and whose key offseason addition was a one-legged former All Star guard. Is major improvement possible? Sure. But as I’ve stated before, possibility and likelihood are not the same.

Seems like once again my excitement for this team is at an all-time low. .

Read the thread sometimes before you talk out of your ass, manocad.


And you definitely can feel however you want to feel. most of this forum are lions fans and give those losers a million chances of hope and they never done anything For anyone but your grandfathers. I see progress in the identity and team that i havent felt in a long time. Im going to enjoy the ride because i know nothing was worse than having a whiney incessant coach and gm that didnt care to develop players or draft the right ones or didnt give a damn about the city or what it takes to win in this smaller market.

[mattao313]

For me not really, its the same team from last year that has the worst wing rotation in the league and got abused by the Bucks in the playoffs. We'll be battling for the 7/8 spot again.