NYPiston wrote:bstein14 wrote:Diallo on many nights last year was our best player. He was our best(most efficient scoring) ISO player as far as points per possession goes. He's a great athlete. He's above average defensively. He's a cheap backup and still young and improving.
The biggest problem is he isn't a reliable shooter, and Hayes isn't a shooter. So playing two guards off the bench that can't shoot isn't ideal. You'd better have your 3/4/5 off the bench all be able to shoot if both your guards can't.
In an ideal scenario you have only one starter that isn't a good perimeter shooter and only one bench player that isn't a good perimeter shooter and your other 8 guys are 35+% from deep.
The problem is that some Pistons fans want perfection in every player which is especially unfair to young, developing players. If a player has a real flaw, it's time to ship him out.
Think about it...
Bey struggles on defense, trade him
Killian struggles to score, trade him (not even legal drinking age yet btw)
Bagley struggles to defend, trade him
Stewart can't stretch the court on offense, trade him (not even legal drinking age yet btw)
Diallo's game is too chaotic, trade him
etc. etc.
None of these guys are older than 23 btw.
I get the Grant trade talk because you wonder if he fits the timeline and if you want to commit big money to what will be a player on the back side of his prime. I get wanting to trade Olynyk because he's an older player that will likely be phased out of the rotation before long and I get maybe wanting to trade one of the young guys if the rotation gets too cluttered at some point due to talent overflow and they're due for a big payday but, right now, it makes no sense to deal any of the young players mentioned above just because they have a flaw or two.
You develop your young guys, build up a core rotation (which yes, does include bench guys like Diallo and Bagley assuming that they upgrade the starting rotation) and then make the decisions on them when the time for that comes which is not now because I hate to break it to some of you guys but.... the Pistons are still in a rebuild.
Bingo. Too many people here think it's realistic to build a team that has above average players, relative to their position, at EVERY SINGLE ROSTER SPOT. And that's just not realistic. Not to mention it's a constant "on paper" analysis that completely overlooks development of a true team dynamic.


















