Detroit Pistons transactions
Front office
none
Draft
Drafted Cade Cunningham at #1.
Drafted Isaiah Livers at #42.
Drafted Luke Garza at #52.
Drafted Balsa Koprivica at #57 (acquired from Charlotte).
Trades
Traded Mason Plumlee and #37 for #57.
Traded Sekou Doumbouya and Jahlil Okafor for Deandre Jordan, 4 2nds, and cash
Free agency
Waived Cory Joseph ($2.4M guaranteed); re-signed 2/$10M.
Waived Rodney McGruder ($0 guaranteed); re-signed 1/min.
Re-signed Saben Lee, 3/$5M.
Signed Kelly Olynyk, $3/37M.
Signed Trey Lyles, 2/$5M.
Signed Frank Jackson, 2/$6M.
Offseason Thoughts
I mean, they get an automatic win for winning the draft lottery and getting Cade, right? Ignoring that, I think the Plumlee trade was kind of a loss but replacing him with Kelly Olynyk on a pretty good deal is worth it. Saben Lee and Frank Jackson being re-signed is good as well. My biggest qualm is all of the stretched money they're accruing. They may be the first team that pushes the limits of stretched money.
Grade
B+ lots of just decent after Cade with some bad, and some okay things being their offseason.
2022 Prediction
Worst in the East
Offseason in gif form

K_Chile22's offseason grade:
Detroit Pistons transactions
Front office
none
Draft
Drafted Cade Cunningham at #1.
Drafted Isaiah Livers at #42.
Drafted Luke Garza at #52.
Drafted Balsa Koprivica at #57 (acquired from Charlotte).
Trades
Traded Miles Plumlee and #37 for #57.
Traded Sekou Doumbouya and Jahlil Okafor for Deandre Jordan, 4 2nds, and cash
Free agency
Waived Cory Joseph ($2.4M guaranteed); re-signed 2/$10M.
Waived Rodney McGruder ($0 guaranteed); re-signed 1/min.
Re-signed Saben Lee, 3/$5M.
Signed Kelly Olynyk, $3/37M.
Signed Trey Lyles, 2/$5M.
Signed Frank Jackson, 2/$6M.
Offseason Thoughts
Not sure how much credit to give to a team for winning the lotto, but they didn't get cute with it, so I will give them some credit here.
The Plumless trade is rough, they JUST stretched guys to sign him and now dumped him at a negative price. I know their cap space is worth less because of the market, but that doesn't excuse terrible cap management. Not docking them much because that was a misstep from last year's off-season, not this one.
The Cory Joseph signing just makes no sense. Like the Kelly O deal for them, but again, the path there was ugly. Did alright to grab 4 seconds for taking Jordan I think, but I'm in the "Doumbouya has no, or negative value", but that seems to be more of a fringe position than I thought.
If Grant's value is as high as some on this board think it is, they should have capitalized and traded him, but I really doubt it is
Grade
B. Nearly all the stuff I didn't like was the result of previous off-seasons, so felt weird docking them too much on that.
2022 Prediction
They'll be very bad, but that's good!
Offseason in gif form

bondom34's offseason grade:
Detroit Pistons transactions
Front office
none
Draft
Drafted Cade Cunningham at #1.
Drafted Isaiah Livers at #42.
Drafted Luke Garza at #52.
Drafted Balsa Koprivica at #57 (acquired from Charlotte).
Trades
Traded Miles Plumlee and #37 for #57.
Free agency
Waived Cory Joseph ($2.4M guaranteed); re-signed 2/$10M.
Waived Rodney McGruder ($0 guaranteed); re-signed 1/min.
Re-signed Saben Lee, 3/$5M.
Signed Kelly Olynyk, $3/37M.
Signed Trey Lyles, 2/$5M.
Signed Frank Jackson, 2/$6M.
Re-signed Hamidou Diallo, 2/$10.8M
Offseason Thoughts
Kind of odd for a team with the first pick, but reading back through this given the assets they started with, it felt fine. The Plumlee trade was a little surprising after a solid year, given they moved back to trade him. The Olynyk deal is fine, people smarter than me seem to love the fit with Cunningham but a little odd to salary dump a big man to turn around and sign another to more money (granted not nearly what I'd initially read that tweet as

Diallo's 2nd year is a team option or NG I believe, so I thought that was fine. The Joseph contract was another weird one, having a PO in the 2nd year after waiving him is a choice. And the trade w/ Brooklyn was fine, no issues with cutting losses if they are out on Doumbouya.
The draft was the main talent infusion and they had the first pick, so it's weird to try to grade it but as K_Chile said they didn't get cute. Don't love the big men taken later but they're late 2nds so whatever.
Grade
This was actually hard, but think B-, they got Cunningham but the rest fel blah at best. Nothing else was terribly consequential but they burned through some money.
2022 Prediction
Bottom 3 in the East
Offseason in gif form
