An anonymous Detroit Pistons front executive says the team would’ve won their first-round matchup if Jaden Ivey had never gotten hurt “Look, if we have Jaden last year, we win our first playoff series in forever. We believe that 100%.”
July 24, 2025
An anonymous Detroit Pistons front executive says the team would’ve won their first-round matchup if Jaden Ivey had never gotten hurt “Look, if we have Jaden last year, we win our first playoff series in forever. We believe that 100%.”
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Ngl I thought we were lucky he wasn’t playing especially with the way all those games were tight
Cool
And if Mitch was healthy, we beat the Hawks in round 1. Them the breaks.
and if i had wheels, i’d be a wagon…
Is this trash talk? I mean that’s what you want a team to believe, I don’t fault them for believing that
lol ok. Detroit putting together a nice team, may get another crack at us in the second round this year so let’s see if they can back it up.
Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve…oh well hold that L
And what if they also had Jokic on their team?
Ok. Cool man. He wasn’t.
Anyway.

lol sure
An anonymous New York Knicks fan says, Suck mah Balls
What a stupid thing to say. No wonder he works for the Pistons organization lol
Focus on winning a playoff home game first

the pistons started becoming a good team when ivey got injured btw lol
Bull. We still would’ve beat them
if my grandmother had wheels, she’d have been a bike…
I have to believe that the same person who said that then snorted something off of a mirror right after
hang it in the rafters
We’ll beat them again next year if they want. The fuck is this delusion, it wasnt even a 7 game series ffs. No, you wouldn’t have beat us, Detroit played well but they were not at our level.
Beasley would’ve still thrown bricks
And then Beasley would’ve just put more bets down against himself. Sorry Detroit, you weren’t winning regardless.
At one time in my life, I believed in Santa Claus, but it never made him real….😳🤔

Motor city got that boy some wheels cause he was skating 🛼 I don’t think Ivey helping with that 🤷🏾♂️
Yeah, maybe. We’ll never know. Oh well.
Just knew this would bring out Knicks “fans” that are gonna agree with this lol. Detroit lost all 3 of their home games that series and blew a significant lead in game 1, Jaden Ivey wasn’t gonna change much if any of that. But they gotta build up their young guard, I get it
People also believe in the Easter bunny. Doesn’t make it anymore real 🙄
Nothing wrong with saying that and believing it.
If thibs would’ve started Mitch from game 1 we would’ve went to the finals. Theres a lot of small things that change what happens


That’s cute. I remember playing the could have, should have, would have game when we couldn’t get out of the 1st round.
Team executive says team would have won if player wasn’t injured. Wow.
Coping mechanism
If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, then Brunson still would’ve kicked their ass
I would imagine they were anonymous for different reasons because it would be pretty crazy if anyone in Detroit felt otherwise.
Also why that Cam T rumor doesn’t make sense for me. I would be way more nervous about a full potential Ivey than Cam T.
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Ngl I thought we were lucky he wasn’t playing especially with the way all those games were tight
Cool
And if Mitch was healthy, we beat the Hawks in round 1. Them the breaks.
and if i had wheels, i’d be a wagon…
Is this trash talk? I mean that’s what you want a team to believe, I don’t fault them for believing that
lol ok. Detroit putting together a nice team, may get another crack at us in the second round this year so let’s see if they can back it up.
Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve…oh well hold that L
And what if they also had Jokic on their team?
Ok. Cool man. He wasn’t.
Anyway.

lol sure
An anonymous New York Knicks fan says, Suck mah Balls
What a stupid thing to say. No wonder he works for the Pistons organization lol
Focus on winning a playoff home game first

the pistons started becoming a good team when ivey got injured btw lol
Bull. We still would’ve beat them
if my grandmother had wheels, she’d have been a bike…
I have to believe that the same person who said that then snorted something off of a mirror right after
hang it in the rafters
We’ll beat them again next year if they want. The fuck is this delusion, it wasnt even a 7 game series ffs. No, you wouldn’t have beat us, Detroit played well but they were not at our level.
Beasley would’ve still thrown bricks
And then Beasley would’ve just put more bets down against himself. Sorry Detroit, you weren’t winning regardless.
At one time in my life, I believed in Santa Claus, but it never made him real….😳🤔

Motor city got that boy some wheels cause he was skating 🛼 I don’t think Ivey helping with that 🤷🏾♂️
Yeah, maybe. We’ll never know. Oh well.
Just knew this would bring out Knicks “fans” that are gonna agree with this lol. Detroit lost all 3 of their home games that series and blew a significant lead in game 1, Jaden Ivey wasn’t gonna change much if any of that. But they gotta build up their young guard, I get it
People also believe in the Easter bunny. Doesn’t make it anymore real 🙄
Nothing wrong with saying that and believing it.
If thibs would’ve started Mitch from game 1 we would’ve went to the finals. Theres a lot of small things that change what happens


That’s cute. I remember playing the could have, should have, would have game when we couldn’t get out of the 1st round.
Team executive says team would have won if player wasn’t injured. Wow.
Coping mechanism
If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, then Brunson still would’ve kicked their ass
I would imagine they were anonymous for different reasons because it would be pretty crazy if anyone in Detroit felt otherwise.
Also why that Cam T rumor doesn’t make sense for me. I would be way more nervous about a full potential Ivey than Cam T.