GAME 72 : Heat @ Pistons 8PM

[Manocad]

I think there are posters who want to see the Pistons fail just so they can yell "Ah hah! I was right!"

[The Moose]

The worst seasons in our history were 2010 to 2019.
Greg Monroe -> Knight -> Andre Drummond -> KCP -> Stanley Johnson -> Ellenson -> Kennard draft picks
Ben Gordon + Charlie V + Josh Smith + Brandon Jennings Free agents and then trading for Blake.
A decade of mediocrity.

To me, finally bottoming out and hitting the reset button on this franchise is far from our worst season.

lmao the saddest part about this post is the fact that 2009-2010 were the first years I was actually old enough to properly follow the team.
10 year old me was taking those final few ECF for granted.
Safe to say that was a rough decade, zero playoff wins and zero top 6 picks. 2020's is our time to get back on track

[NYPiston]

it wasn't possible until they changed the lottery odds last year. But nobody dropped 4 spots, some teams dropped 3 spots like the Cavs dropping from 2 to 5.

we have a 20% of falling 4 spots though

Thanks.
I know the percentages but I was just curious. I forgot that they changed the odds before last year, never really thought about the lottery much before last season as far as Pistons interests are concerned.

Dropping 3 spots is pretty much 50/50 so that's basically a coin flip between finishing top 4 vs. 5 or 6 and I'm ok with 5 as I feel Kuminga is part of The Big 5.

[The Moose]

it wasn't possible until they changed the lottery odds last year. But nobody dropped 4 spots, some teams dropped 3 spots like the Cavs dropping from 2 to 5.

we have a 20% of falling 4 spots though

Thanks.
I know the percentages but I was just curious. I forgot that they changed the odds before last year, never really thought about the lottery much before last season as far as Pistons interests are concerned.

Dropping 3 spots is pretty much 50/50 so that's basically a coin flip between finishing top 4 vs. 5 or 6 and I'm ok with 5 as I feel Kuminga is part of The Big 5.

Would've been great if we had these new odds back in all the years we were picking 7/8/9.

[NYPiston]

The worst seasons in our history were 2010 to 2019.
Greg Monroe -> Knight -> Andre Drummond -> KCP -> Stanley Johnson -> Ellenson -> Kennard draft picks
Ben Gordon + Charlie V + Josh Smith + Brandon Jennings Free agents and then trading for Blake.
A decade of mediocrity.

To me, finally bottoming out and hitting the reset button on this franchise is far from our worst season.

Agreed. The 2010s were the absolute worst. No direction, no real exciting young players outside of Drummond in the early years, lots of "me first" players and ugly basketball even when they had their decent seasons. It was NBA purgatory, not good enough to be a playoff threat, not bad enough to fully rebuild.

We're finally in the midst of the rebuild most of us have been begging for since the end of the Dumars era and most of the draft picks exceeded expectations on a team that was competitive most nights until the recent death march to the finish all while securing a top pick. Far from the worst season, as you said.