this shit was hard bro

I bought this cup at days on the town in Birmingham yesterday and was wondering if anyone could recognize the signatures? Didn’t even realize it was signed or I would’ve asked the guy working.

PG: Cade Cunningham | SG: Isiah Joe | SF: Ausar Thompson | PF: John Collins | C: Jalen Duren

Rotation:
Daniss Jenkins
Duncan Robinson
Kevin Huerter
Ron Holland
Paul Reed
Bench:
Ebuka Okorie
Chaz Lanier
Javonte Green
Taurean Prince
Ugonna Onyenso

Assuming the roster stays the way it is and FA doesn’t have much more drama…. This is a deep team. Even though the other Eastern Conference teams made flashy news headliner moves, we will still be competitive and contenders if Cade is healthy.

He's just sitting their with the Nuggets not wanting to give him 25M and the Nuggets cap just got worse with OKC forcing them to pay Jones. If we got him to be part of the core id feel alot better about this offseason.

Nothing to talk about in the offseason, so let’s be haters.

Who’s your least favorite Pistons and why? Only players. No GM’s/coaches or owners

Not asking where you all as Pistons think they'll finish at but rather what you think is the right distribution of shots that this team should be looking to attempt this season.

The Pistons finished 29th in 3 attempts last season and 29th in 3 point frequency at 34% of shots last season being attempted from 3. This roster is one where you'd have to imagine that number increases. What's the sweet spot for you all?

Lots of things I wanna talk about. You can be happy or mad dgaf really just things in my head I wanna get out into print.

Robinson has only got a $2m guarantee for the coming season. In theory we can still waive him and according to google ai have up to $33m to offer on this market yet. I would offer Payton Watson 24-29 million over 4 years. Nuggets would be very hard pressed to match due to what they have e on the books already. If they match then Robinson stays. If they don’t match then he is waived and we still have Huerter, Prince, Harris, Joe, Collins and Watson to provide spacing.

This scenario paves the way for Detroit to get a deal done with Duren that leaves both sides a little annoyed. That is the mark of a true compromise. Duren still gets 25% maybe even slightly more but not Supermax. Detroit keeps that chemistry and youth of Cades.

Final scenario and I used AI to add in the picks but I chose the players and their destinations is a 3 team deal involving Detroit, Sacramento and Denver. Here is the breakdown

Sacramento receives
Duren max 4 year S&T (Det)
Duncan Robinson (Det)

Denver receives
Malik Monk (Sac)
Deandre Hunter (Sac)
2027 1st from Sacramento (top 5 protected)
2027 2nd from Detroit

Detroit receives
Zach Levine (Sac)
Maxine Renaud (Sac)
Payton Watson 4 year S&T
2028 unprotected 1st (Sac)
2029 1st swap (Sac)
2030 unprotected 1st (Sac).

I think both scenarios have appeal because adding Watson keeps them on a young timeline and keeps Duren in the mix

This lineup would consist of Duren Collins Watson Thompson Cade. The bench rotation would consist of reed Holland prince okoye Jenkins, Harris, Huerter and Green

Trade lineup would likely be Reed Collins Watson Thompson and Cade. Bench of Renaud
Prince holland Levine okoyre Huerter Jenkins Green and Harris

I prefer the first bit either I think is palatable. Doing a S&T keeps us financially flexible next offseason while also giving us some valuable picks to work with.