todays Pistons roster who would you add

[Pistons888]

It would be cool to see Adonis Thomas get a shot at the end of our bench. I don't know if it happens because of Martin's guaranteed contract but I would rather see Thomas get a shot. He spent all of last year with the Drive and can finish and shot the 3 at a decent clip. It looks like he has been working out with Dinwiddie and Quincy also.

[bjones521]

I'd add Brandan Wright and Danny Green

PG) REGGIE JACKSON, Jennings, Dinwiddie
SG) DANNY GREEN, KCP, Meeks, Darrun Hilliard II
SF) STANLEY JOHNSON, Quincy Miller, Cartier Martin
PF) ILLYASOVA, Tolliver
C) DRUMMOND, Wright, Anthony

SVG would finally get the spacing he needs with two 40% 3pt shooters. The Reggie/Drummond Pick and Roll would be as lethal as ever now since you can't leave Illyasova or Green. Johnson would flourish with having a ton of space to operate and so would Drummond.

Anthony, Martin and Hilliard wouldn't suit.

[whitehops]

I'd add Brandan Wright and Danny Green

PG) REGGIE JACKSON, Jennings, Dinwiddie
SG) DANNY GREEN, KCP, Meeks, Darrun Hilliard II
SF) STANLEY JOHNSON, Quincy Miller, Cartier Martin
PF) ILLYASOVA, Tolliver
C) DRUMMOND, Wright, Anthony

SVG would finally get the spacing he needs with two 40% 3pt shooters. The Reggie/Drummond Pick and Roll would be as lethal as ever now since you can leave Illyasova or Green. Johnson would flourish with having a ton of space to operate and so would Drummond.

Anthony, Martin and Hilliard wouldn't suit.

I'd be stoked if that was our roster going into next season.

I think green would start at SF though, with Johnson backing him up. The guard rotation is already stacked, and a six guard rotation is overkill, especially when that leaves miller playing big backup minutes.

Then miller, Martin and Hilliard don't dress on game day.

[bkseven]

Rashard Lewis was a great shooter throughout his career, Harris shot league average last year and 32% for his career.

ill let the stats talk to you.

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/469/rashard-lewis
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/6440/tobias-harris

look at their fifth seasons for an even comparison. how are you about to compare someone who is turning 23 to someone's entire career (15+ seasons). lewis was a great shooter in his prime. harris has not even entered his prime. point in case look at lewis' early career and latter career stats.

you have lost all credibility with this someone

[bjones521]

Rashard Lewis was a great shooter throughout his career, Harris shot league average last year and 32% for his career.

ill let the stats talk to you.

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/469/rashard-lewis
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/6440/tobias-harris

look at their fifth seasons for an even comparison. how are you about to compare someone who is turning 23 to someone's entire career (15+ seasons). lewis was a great shooter in his prime. harris has not even entered his prime. point in case look at lewis' early career and latter career stats.

you have lost all credibility with this someone

I disagree with this post actually. Did you look at the stats. Rashard Lewis has been an avg 40% 3pt shooter since his 3rd season once he was given starter minutes. Tobias Harris hasn't sniffed anything close. Not to say he won't come close if he in in SVG system but I think the original poster is more accurate than you are.

[bkseven]

Rashard Lewis was a great shooter throughout his career, Harris shot league average last year and 32% for his career.

ill let the stats talk to you.

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/469/rashard-lewis
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/6440/tobias-harris

look at their fifth seasons for an even comparison. how are you about to compare someone who is turning 23 to someone's entire career (15+ seasons). lewis was a great shooter in his prime. harris has not even entered his prime. point in case look at lewis' early career and latter career stats.

you have lost all credibility with this someone

I disagree with this post actually. Did you look at the stats. Rashard Lewis has been an avg 40% 3pt shooter since his 3rd season once he was given starter minutes. Tobias Harris hasn't sniffed anything close. Not to say he won't come close if he in in SVG system but I think the original poster is more accurate than you are.

He only shot over 40% on 3 pointers in 3 seasons out of 16. His 3rd season had the highest 3 point percentage in his entire career. the other times he shot over 40% were in 04-05 and 07-08 (and he BARELY hit over 40% on threes).

And if you look at Lewis' three point percentages, he only started consistently hitting even close to 40% by his 7th season, not 3rd. That's when he was in his prime . Tobias is not even close to hitting his prime. And Tobias even shot better than Lewis in their respective 5th seasons.

[sc8581]

Rashard Lewis was a great shooter throughout his career, Harris shot league average last year and 32% for his career.

ill let the stats talk to you.

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/469/rashard-lewis
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/6440/tobias-harris

look at their fifth seasons for an even comparison. how are you about to compare someone who is turning 23 to someone's entire career (15+ seasons). lewis was a great shooter in his prime. harris has not even entered his prime. point in case look at lewis' early career and latter career stats.

you have lost all credibility with this someone

Lewis has shot 38.6% for his career even after falling off because of injuries the last few years, Harris 32%. GTFO

[PistonsDreamer]

I think we need to think long term, and not picking up Winslow wasn't a good start because he has potential and you cant really keep building slowly till youre a decent enough team to convince other high end players too come in when youre in Detroit..its not the most wanted destination to live.

[Webbdog]

Okay, I'll be "that guy" — Kevin Love.

No, seriously. I know there's < 1% chance he'd even agree to meet with us, much less sign with us. But part of SVG's job is recruiting, and as such he HAS to make his "due diligence" phone call and try to convince Love to sit down and listen to his sales pitch.

Then, after he's politely rebuked, you move on to Tobias Harris.

As for forwards, that's honestly my entire wish list. I don't want to commit big money to high-end complimentary role players like Carroll or Danny Green; our franchise just isn't at that stage yet, and we don't have to try to go from lottery to championship contention in one summer. For now, if we can't hit a home run (or a triple in Tobias' case), I'd prefer short term deals to "bridge" guys in order to maintain our flexibility to add more true core pieces in the coming years. In short, fill out our roster with more guys like Ilysova; improvements over what we've got, but nothing that ties our hands long term.

Back up center is a different story, 'cuz, well, it's a back up position and won't cost a lot (at most we're looking at MLE-level money, and that's current ~$6M MLE, not what the MLE will be after the cap spike). As such, I love the thought of Ajinca; think he's perfect to back up Drummond and probably even has the 18-foot shot to play some minutes beside him. If not Ajinca, I'd take a flyer on Biyombo if the price was right.

He could definitely fill the Laimbeer 2.0 role on the Bad Boys 2.0 Squad. Would be the perfect fit here.

[Webbdog]

Kevin Love
Gerald Green
Glenn Robinson III

[Webbdog]

We need to trade for Kyle Slo Mo Anderson as well.