Pistons Insider Omari Sankofa JOINS THE SHOW! | Off-Season Breakdown!
All the dirty work, all dog. I’mma dive on the floor, go try to block every shot, and I’mma be physical with you the whole game. You know, Ste going to be physical with you. When you think of the Pistons, you think of just hard work and just pretty basketball. That’s his identity you got to have when you put on that jersey. I’m not your average king. Not a good boy for life. I don’t care about no respect. Come in the lane and see. I don’t love you. If you retaliate, I don’t I walk in the top. You must come mess around. Mess around. for somebody with somebody messing around. What up though everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the Downtown Dude Show. Hope everybody is having a good night so far on this rainy Wednesday evening here in Michigan. Tonight we are joined by none other than Pistons beat rider and journalist for the Detroit Free Press, Omari Sanca. Omari, welcome to the show, bro. We finally got a chance to link up, man. Hey, happy to be here, dudes. Appreciate you having me on, man. Absolutely, man. First of all, bro, how is your off seasonason going? Have you had a chance to kind of disconnect from the world for a minute and kind of recharge your batteries before next season? Not yet. That’s that’s coming up. I’m off like three or four weeks in August and then a little bit of time in like early September, too. So, it’s like coming up. So, like you like, you know, those last few days are like the last days of school where you can just taste a break. Like, that’s where I’m at right now. Like I’m like right there. So, got on your calendar. I got it all checked off, ready to go. All checked off, man. For sure. Well, we appreciate you being here and appreciate all your great work, man. Um, appreciate that. For sure. This is your first time on the show, so I kind of want to just kind of go through some main storylines from last season and a couple things from this off season. I know you got a few engagements you got to take care of, so we’ll try to get you in and out quickly. Um, summer league. Let’s start with summer league, bro. Any summer league takeaways that you have had? Right. We we u we know the Pistons wrapped up about a week and a half ago. Um, for me personally, I’ll let you know there are a few guys who stood out to me. Obviously, Ron, but you got guys like Dennis Jenkins, uh, Bobby Clinton, Chaz Laneir, even Tou Smith at times having their moment. So, from your point of view, uh, what were some of the biggest takeaways that you had from summer league? I would say really just I think in any summer league, you want the I guess quote unquote summer league vets to look like vets. You want them to come in and set the the tone essentially and and and dominate. And I think that’s what they got from Ron uh first and foremost. Uh I mean he averaged it was around 24 uh eight rebounds, like four steals, like shot the three pretty well. So he more or less checked every single box you would want to see. Uh even had some nice playmaking moments even though they were turnovers too, but like I think he checked every box you would want to see. And then you mentioned Dennis Jenkins and Tulu Smith, uh you know, the two-way guys who were pretty good for the Motor City Crews last season. And then I mean they they came in and like I don’t think either of them had a single off night or even a single possession where they didn’t just completely bring it uh right to you know stuffed the stat sheet like I thought Dennis really locked in defensively did all the point guard stuff you want to see but I think most important offensively besides just his ball control was that he shot it pretty well. So, uh, those three guys specifically like stood out the most and like I said, like that’s what you want to see from guys who are there for the second time. For sure. Of those guys that you mentioned, other than Ron, obviously, um, who do you think has the the best chance of possibly carving out a role with the Pistons going into next season? If anybody, I would say Too just because I think they’re not like not quite as deep at center as they are in the back court. And I mean obviously I mean you have Kade, you have Ji, you’ve got you know Caris, you’ve got Sass. Even Duncan can handle the ball a little bit. So uh you know it’s just it’s just tough to see where those bits would come from for Dennis. But I think Tou being like a really solid like 610 611 uh just did everything pretty solid. Like rebounded like he’s got some touch around the rim. Uh like I thought he has some good defensive moments. uh you know if you ever have you know a stent where you know Par Reed or like whoever it is is is hurt and you need another third big then right uh you know I think I think Too’s probably shown enough that you know you could probably give him a go and and and see how he looks in those minutes. So I think just a matter of opportunity it’s just like I think things line up for Tou a little bit more. That’s a great point you made about uh the need, you know, because there are a lot of talented guys in this league, a summer league, but for this team, I think you make a good point because a lot of people have been clamoring for the Pistons, go get it big, things like that. So, I think a guy like that who has a skill set, who can do a lot of the things you’re talking about as far as just man in the paint, being that interior presence like you mentioned, I think that could be really really important. That’s a good good take for sure, bro. Let’s go to let’s talk about a few individual guys um on this roster that a lot of people are looking forward to watching next season. Let’s start with Kate, right? Um last season Kane officially arrived right from the national media perspective at least he he arrived he had a career year um averaging 26 9-6 all NBA 13 first all-star game top 15 player of the league um been a rough goal for him the first few years right but you know after three years of trying to really write the ship and not jumping off the boat like he always talked about um it seems like team success is really starting to finally catch up with and highlight his individual play so it’s it’s established now that he’s one of those guys right So, um, but with all of that though, bro, all of these young guys have room to grow, right? Um, are there any areas that you would like to see Kade work on to take his game to even another gear and the team to another gear next season? I think the big thing with Kade is just, you know, like I would say, and it’s it it it sounds bad. I don’t mean it in a bad way, but I think the conditioning aspect, like there’s a difference between being in great shape and like being in like, you know, you’re doing everything that’s being asked of you on both sides of the ball. And I think for a lot of players that are being asked to do a lot like obviously there’s sort of a physical limit that you hit but you know that’s what Kades even talked about uh you know just coming back next season uh you know stronger like just whatever you could do conditioning wise just to kind of hit that next level. Uh like I thought his shot looked a little bit flat in the playoffs. So I think some of that’s just I mean the Knicks are throwing their entire defense at them at the end of the season and like you’re being asked to do a lot right? So you’ve got to be in like herculan shape to kind of carry that herculian load which he like he’s in great shape but there’s like just this extra tier he can get to. And I think if that happens then I think that honestly kind of fixes a lot of the issues. Like I think some of the decision-m lapses he has are like you know fatigue related. Uh you know I think the shooting inconsistency is fatigue related. Um like beyond that like just his natural growth trajectory. uh like I think it’s pretty clear like he’s going to continue to shoot the ball better going to continue to uh you know figure out the correct reads and as the Pistons get more talent around him like certain things will get easier as well. Uh so I mean you’ve said it like he’s established now he’s got the allNBA under his belt and everybody knows who he is what he can do. So, you know, you’ve just got to come in next season and and, you know, just be tip top in every facet from from the jump, but then also figure out how to maintain that over the course of a season, which, you know, I think is a a process for any guy who’s being asked to do what he’s being asked to do. You’re 100% I totally agree, but like the conditioning piece, especially with him wanting JB saying that they want him to be a two-way player, two-way guy, right? So, like you mentioned that that’s going to be important in the fourth game in the in the fourth quarter of games, right, down the stretch. So, I think just him having that willingness to commit to the defensive end, it’s going to require him, like you say, to have that conditioning to still be able to perform offensively on the other end. So, totally agree with you there, too, bro. Good, good take, man. Um, let’s move on to Assar Thompson. Assar Thompson, man. Um, my nickname for him, bro, is Tasmanian Thompson because he just impacts the game. He wres havoc like all everywhere, all on the court and he just makes plays with athleticism that you just don’t see every day. And I’ve also called him the backbone of the defense. I think I feel like when when he’s out of the game, the defensive resistance is felt the most. You can just kind of feel the difference when he’s not on the court, right? So, what do you think are some realistic expectations for him going into next season, having now a full off season, not having to miss eight months, you know, of basketball activity with the blood clot like he did last year. What do you think is realistic for him going into next year? I mean, you kind of assume that he can only go out from here, right? like he’s had to overcome one of the more difficult things I think you could go through as an athlete which is not just an injury but a blood class situation that just kind of leaves you in limbo until it’s resolved and obviously the type of injury that or you know ailment that you don’t expect to ever have to deal with. So uh I mean you mentioned it but he lost all of last offseason his rookie season ended in March and then he didn’t get back on the court uh well back on the NBA court at least until the end of November. Uh, so that’s, you know, what, like, you know, six, seven months of just, you know, no basketball activity. Um, you know, like right when he was really finding his stride as a rookie, too. And I think by the end of last season, uh, once he got his win back, once he got the rhythm back and all that stuff since, I mean, he just dived right, you know, back into play, uh, you know, essentially three and a half, four weeks after he was cleared. Uh, you began to see like, I think that next level where, okay, like he’s an absolutely elite defender. uh you know just his activity around the rim like really on both ends the secondary play making and then you combine that with an entire off seasonason of I mean like you could just only imagine the growth from there whether it’s ball handling whether it’s being able to knock down a few more threes or even a few more free throws uh like it’s just all sort of directions this game can grow. Uh, I think it’s even tough to predict exactly what version we’re going to see of him next season. But, you know, that the defense is going to continue to be elite. Uh, you know, the athleticism, uh, you know, just the various ways he impacts the game with his playmaking and rebounding and like really anything else he can just add offensively, whether that’s, uh, you know, just finishing a little bit better or, you know, being able to hit free throws once you get to the line or like whatever it is. Like, you know, like I think with what he’s already done, it’s just going to, uh, grow exponentially from there. So, uh, I mean, it’s it’s it’s no telling what to expect, but again, you’re talking about a guy who’s just had very un ideal circumstances up until now. So, like, so you can only imagine what’s that’s going to look like that he actually has some momentum. It’s a it’s it’s I think he’s one of the guys where he he’s a guy where he hasn’t really mastered anything yet, but he still has a crazy impact. I don’t know many guys who haven’t really mastered any part any facet of the game, but still just elevates your team in so many different ways. And I think he’s one of those guys. You mentioned the shooting. We Everybody talks about the shooting. We get it. Um, but you’ve been up close and personal with him and for Benson. Have you seen any strides being made with him as far as just his mechanics or his consistency or even his confidence? Yeah, I mean I think like over the course of, you know, a season or two, you see adjustments. Uh, you know, you see that they’re trying to get his form more compact, you know, get it off quicker, all that types of stuff. Uh, you know, I think it’s tough to really kind of quantify the improvements until you see it in like live game action. Uh, you know, but I can say I’ve seen Assar, you know, take, you know, probably several hundred threes, uh, you know, just sort of oddly watching like after practices and whatnot if I had to just ballpark it. Yeah. And like it’s something he works on, you know, something that’s a big priority. Uh, like that’s just one aspect of the game. Like some guys could learn it, like for some guys it’s just you either have it or you don’t. uh you know I think with I think with the touch he’s shown like you know there’s enough for you to think that it’s something that he can build on but uh but we’ll just have to see. Yeah. Let’s get to Ryan Holland, bro. Um Ron Holland for me last season exceeded all expectations um coming into his rookie year. I said it often. He made a believer out of me very early. It didn’t take long for me to really see that this guy was for real. back in um back in January of this year, I said that the way he looked then was how I was hoping he would look by the end of the season. Just the way he was able to impact games so early in the season. You know, sometimes rookies, it takes time to get used to the 82 game season, the rookie wall, yada yada yada, right? But he came in like making an impact even though his shooting wasn’t there, he still found ways to be impactful for this team that they couldn’t keep him off the floor. Um, from your point of view, is it fair to say that um, Trejan Landon and JB Bigger Stab were surprised with how quickly he was able to kind of get up to speed to the NBA game? I don’t want to say surprised, but I think you know obviously you have a guy who came in at 18 years old and uh, you know, that that season he was coming off of the G- League Ignite was undeal for a lot of reasons, not because of him, but just because of the surrounding, you know, program and environment. So, you don’t set expectations on a guy like that, but you’re also not, you know, necessarily expecting that he’s going to be somebody that you’re leaning on for 15 to 20 minutes a night. And that’s what ended up happening. Uh, I think he only averaged really just around 15 minutes a night, but he played 81 of 82. And like you always noticed him when he was on the floor, which I think just speaks to why he continues to get minutes because he just kind of has like an innateness to his game where uh he just sort of appears in the right spots at the right times and his effort is relentless. like he could give he was already able to give you a little bit of something on defense just with his size and length and yeah uh sheer effort and then you kind of see glimpses of his ability to get downhill and his touch at the rim and stuff like that and uh yeah it’s like the more you watch him it’s like okay like he like it’s still figuring out what he’s doing right like it’s sort of like two things going on where it’s like he’s very clearly young and a rookie and figuring things out but he’s he also just keeps figuring things out. Yeah. And like and that’s kind of what it was. It’s like he’s, you know, figuring things out pretty quickly. And yeah, then you put that with a full off season and uh, you know, him getting older. Like he just turned 20 a couple weeks ago, so still pretty young. And, uh, I mean, that growth trajectory for him is going to be pretty big, too. So, I mean, that’s just the main thing that stood out last season is that like he just kept forced the issue and like he kept getting minutes just because he kept finding ways to make an impact. Yeah, I’m with you, man. It it seems like whenever they would continue to put more and more on his plate, he would just continue to to eat. you know, he never really seemed over even with and I know it’s just summer league, but even with summer league, you saw him getting more opportunities, more responsibility, things like that. Ball handling, initiating offense, making plays, and he seemed just fine. It didn’t seem like it was overwhelming. He wasn’t turning the ball over a ton. You mentioned he did it here and there, but it was it did he didn’t seem overwhelmed. And I think that just kind of speaks to what his ceiling could be. Certain guys are very good in very specific roles, and when you try to give him more, it’s like they start making mistakes and overthinking. He doesn’t seem like that kind of guy. He seems like he’s has the ability and the confidence to be able to say, “Okay, this is the task.” Much like JB with with Kate last year, given give him, you know, challenge him. Okay, I can do that. Okay, I can do that. Ryan seems to be one of those guys and I think that’s really what um for me has gives him so high of a ceiling. What do you think about that? Yeah. Um yeah, I mean again like and you look at at his build too, like 68 like he’s got good wings, man. Like it’s there’s just a lot of prototypical stuff. Like I think you want like a modern wing that he has and that he’s already shown. Uh I mean so you could throw out whatever comparison you want, but you’ve seen over the years the the trend of young athletic wings who come in and some of them don’t figure it out, but the ones who do like when they pop like they really really pop. So like that’s hope with Ron long term is that he can just continue to build on what he showed as a Ricky and you know and then once he really begins to figure things out and once he begins to knock down shots then you’re going to see that trajectory just go up even more exponentially from there. Yeah, absolutely bro. Let’s move to uh the starting and backup power forward position for a minute. Um obviously the power forward position the starting role has been a hot button for Pistons Twitter the last few months. Um, it’s clear as of right now that Tobias Harris is going to be the starting four. Um, but that does make the Pistons a little bit small up front. You know, Tobias is a warrior. He’s a vet, smart guy, great off the court guy. Um, but he’s 6’8. You know, when I look around the East, bro, I just I see the Cavs, right? I see the Knicks, the Bucks who just added Miles Turner, right? The Hawks, Scott Porzingis, the M. Like, I see all these teams who are likely to be in contention next year. I could see them kind of giving the Pistons a few problems with their size. But how do you how do you see it? How do you think the Pistons could stack up a matchup against those teams, especially in the playoffs as currently constructed? Yeah, I mean, and we saw it in the the playoffs obviously with, you know, Cat and Mitchell Robinson and just I mean, you’ve got two the legit seven foot guys who can just, you know, dictate the physicality of the game and that’s tough to match up against. I mean, and they didn’t have Isaiah Stewart, so that was obviously a big part of it. So, you know, that’s not a direct comparison to what it’ll look like next season. But overall, you’re right in that I mean, you know, the best teams of the East, you know, are for the most part pretty big teams. And, you know, that’s something that the Pistons are going to have to figure out how to solve. Uh, so whether or not you solve that with the backup four, like I think that’s probably for one, you kind of look at what’s out there and like there are guys who can check a few boxes for you. like you know Chris Buché can rebound he’s got some athleticism can knock down threes but we saw what Trey L could do a few years ago you know can knock down threes but now they’re those guys who are really going to address the size aspect of it right uh because you you know you still need shooting there too so they’ve got two two open roster spots and uh you know they’ve got to get to to to 14 players they’re at 13 now uh you know so uh like we we’ll see which way they go whether they decide they need a little bit more size or you know if they just go get a four and then figure things out. But the other thing too is that you have that trade exception. So, right. Uh, you know, so that gives you flexibility in the middle of the season if all of a sudden you’re like, yo, like we, you know, we can’t handle Pzingis, like we can’t deal with the Bucks, like we just need to get, you know, another big dude in here. So, uh, you know, they’ve got some flexibility, but I don’t know if you could, you could check that size box with that backup four spot. You’re probably going to have to do an additional move to figure that out. Yeah, you make a good point about um size. You mentioned the backup four role. So, we’ve been talking a little bit here and there. I’ve I’ve said this. I’ve voiced this on you your podcast with Bryce. Shout out to you guys. Uh, make sure y’all follow him. You got them guys over there for sure. Um, I’m a big Bobby Clement guy, right? I’ve been a big Bobby guy since uh the beginning of summer camp uh summer league last year. Um, and I feel like placed in the right situation, he could be effective putting that Simony Ponteo role as far as just being able to knock down shots, um, rebound the basketball, play solid team defense. Um, and then playmaking here and there in space when he gets the opportunity, you know, playing maybe, let’s just say, for example, he’s playing with Isaiah Stewart off the bench, right? We know Bobb’s not a guy who’s going to break you down top of the key. He he needs a screen or he needs a triple hand off to be able to get some space. I think playing with a guy like Stu, one of the best screeners in the league could really help his game as far as being able to get two feet into the paint. And once he gets there, his processing speed is great. He’s got great timing. He’s, you know, he’s on target, on time with his passing. I think he could be great in that role. How do you kind of see that potentially working? Do you think he could eventually work his way up to that backup four spot or what do you think there? I think he’s like I think with his skill set he could absolutely make a case for himself like you mentioned the the passing and like he’s just genuinely a really strong playmaker uh you know at at 610 and I think I agree that you put him uh you know with some some NBA players like some guys that can really shoot cut like you’re really going to see that aspect of his game blossom a little bit more than I think you could see it in a G-League or even in summer league even though it’s been evident in both of those settings as well. uh this I mean and he’s got like he’s a a legit 610 too. Uh like I do think he’s a guy that you know conceivably could give you some size up front. Uh if you’re lacking uh I think the swing skill for him is just the three. Uh like he shot not great in the G-League last season. He shot okay at Australia. He shot pretty well uh at Wake Forest. Like he has shot failed in summer league. But it’s just it’s kind of seesawed. So, if he can like get that pretty consistent, then, you know, like I think that’s probably going to be the the swing skill for him going forward. Gotcha. Gotcha. For sure. And we’ll keep an eye on that going forward into the the season, things like that. For sure. All right. Two more things, bro, and I’ll get you out of here. I know you got time constraints. Um, let’s talk about Jaylen Duran and Jaden Ivy. Hot topic as of right now. Both of those guys are extension eligible. Um, they’re both up for possible rookie extensions. a lot of speculation um about which of those guys is going to sign, who’s not, or who’s going to better themselves and play the season out. Um I know no one truly knows yet. Nobody can nobody knows for sure. But what do you think the likelihood is that possibly both of those guys are extended this off seasonason going into next season? I think there’s a good likelihood. Uh I think you can just look around the league and how teams have kind of handled restricted free agency and more often than not, teams have preferred to extend their own guys. uh you know, especially players like, you know, Ji and and JD who aren’t going to command the max, but you can still probably find some number in the middle that can make both parties happy, right? We saw Houston do it with Cam Whitmore. Uh and then we just saw him do it with Jabari Smith Jr. as well. Uh also with J Oh, I’m sorry, not not Cam Whitmore, Jaylen Green. Um right, you know, with the with that three-year deal that he he he was extended to and Shen like I I think Shenun signed for all five years. I don’t know if he got the backs, but um but you can kind of thread the needle with that. And I think you see, you know, with guys who probably weren’t as valued with their teams that end up in restricted free agency like, you know, Cam Thomas and Jonathan Kaminga and Josh Giddy, like these guys are still in the market and it’s almost August. Like it’s just a bad spot uh for a player to be. And you know, if you’re a team and you really value that player, uh, you know, I think you’re probably less likely or less inclined to want to go through that process unless the negotiation is just extremely rigid and you can’t find any any negotiating room. But I think there’s like I say all that to say I think there’s a good chance that they both end up getting extended. Like I think that’s just uh rationally like that’s just the better outcome for both parties. uh you know maybe one or both of those guys it’s like you know what like I think I I want to bet on myself and you know then that would be that but just based on league trends uh you know just based on the feeling I think there’s a good chance that they end up signing those extensions so we’ll see you made a yeah sorry I’m going to cut you off you made a great point about how you know a lot of guys who are still kind of holding out is because the situation is so rigid we heard Cam Thomas saying he feels like he’s really being undervalued right now coming out and say so the frustration is there for sure um and then we’ve heard Tan Langden say over and over again, the core, the core, the core, the young guys. We’re investing in the young guys. We’re believing in the young guys. We’re building around the margins. Everything he has said up to this point has been about the core. So, with that being said, I don’t see how he isn’t going to be willing to try to meet these guys in the middle, you know, and then you got guys like Jaden who who’s who’s got roots here. He loves to be here. You know, it it just makes sense, I think, for both of those guys to resign at a reasonable price. I think somewhere between 20 25 a year will be reasonable considering their injury history and things like that, which isn’t their fault, but it is what it is. Um, yeah. So, I’m I’m hoping both of those guys are here cuz I really think that, you know, this young core has really still just kind of scratched the surface with injuries and not getting the consistency and all that. So, yeah, I’m with you. I definitely think it’s possible and I hope it happens. All right, let’s go to our last uh point here and then we will we will get you out of here, bro. Um, we talked about a little bit already, but the Pistons roster is going to look a bit little bit different going into next year. Um, they lost some key guys, right? Malik Beasley, at least for now. Um, Tim Hardway Jr., Dennis Schroeder, Simony Fontio, those guys are gone. And they p the Pistons have added Caris Levert and Duncan Robinson this offseason. So, I know we didn’t add the same amount of guys that we lost, but I also think that addition by subtraction can kind of play a role here. Do you think the Pistons got better this off seasonason compared to where they were last offseason? I don’t know if they clearly got better, but like I think, you know, if if anything, they probably stayed about even. Um, you know, just as far as role players. Uh, you know, like I like I think Duncan Robinson like he’s an elite shooter. Uh, you know, I think he could replicate a lot of what you got from Malik Beasley. Uh, you know, Caris, like I think he kind of addresses some of the needs for shotmaking in that second unit and then some ball handling as well. Um, you know, like people can debate if these players are better or worse than the role players they had last season, but like I think overall, like they checked the same boxes with the players they went got this off seasonason. Um, and none of these guys were going to like swing the season by themselves anyway. It was always going to be about Cade and the growth of the other guys. So, I don’t think they got worse, you know. I don’t think they got substantially better. Uh, you know, I think they’re just right where they were, um, in a position where they’re trying to get better and they’re going to need need their young guys to carry them to that point. Right. You can push back on this um, if you feel you need to. I I feel like at least for from Tan’s point of view, it was mission accomplished because one thing I heard him say, I think you actually were the one that asked him this question, but he he was just talking about the importance of having size number one and defensive versatility number two. And I feel like with those two guys, even though we know Duncan Robinson is not a great defender or anything, he has the size and we know that Caris Avert has that versatility on both sides of the court at 66, right? Duncan 67 as opposed to Bees is 6’4, you know, six, I think he’s got a 67 wingspan. Not bad, but you got car 66, 610 wingspan, you know, so you can’t teach those measurables. Um, so I feel like at least he felt as if he accomplished what he wanted to accomplish as far as how this team looks. What would you say about that? Yeah, I would say so because the other take away from the Knicks is that they’ve got those long wings. So, you know, it’s tough to be, you know, a small team against a big team like that. So, uh, you know, they didn’t get bigger necessarily at center, but they got bigger overall and and that was something that they wanted to do. For sure. Last one. You dropped an article today, um, which talked about Tim Hardways Jr.’s conversation with Caris Levert and how that kind of influenced him to sign here, but you it also mentioned how Caris Levert had a familiarity already. We talked about this a little bit in our last show. I’d like to get your take on that as far as what really sold Caris on the Pistons. And make sure you guys go read this article, too. I’ll put a link in the description. You guys can go check it out. Yeah, I mean, I think just the familiarity uh you know, Tim Hardway Jr. obviously was a big part of the team last season and uh he ended up going for it with different opportunity, but like he could vouch for what took place here and uh you know and Caris I think fits that personalitywise like he fixed he checks a lot of boxes on the court and uh you know and then JB you know he played for JB at Cleveland as well so you know I think he comes in with familiarity and that made it a good fit for him for sure. Listen bro, we appreciate you um coming on for a few minutes man to keep us up to date with the latest Pistons news. We are looking forward to yet another year of great work from you. Got to have you back on the show at some point before the regular season. Um, if you’re game for that. Um, and for those who are not already tapped in with you, how can we kind of keep up with you with and what you’re doing? Yeah. Uh, if you can follow me on, uh, Twitter, uh, like my handle’s right here, first and last name. And then, uh, my work’s on freep.com and then podcast is the pisses Post with Border City Hoops. Uh, and that’s on the the main podcast networks. Okay. So, y’all make sure y’all go check him out, man. Stay tapped in with everything Pistons, this is your guy. So, like I said, man, I appreciate you showing up um giving us a little bit of your time and kind of giving us a little bit of a deeper look from your perspective at what we can expect next season. Yeah, I appreciate you for having me. Absolutely, man. Have a good one. Talk to you soon. All right. Talk soon. All right. All right, guys. So, that was Omari Sof. We’ve been We’ve been trying to do that for a while. Um so, it was good to finally get him on. uh very insightful, does his homework. Um yeah, gonna give you nothing but the real. So, it’s good to have him on. Before we get out of here, guys, I want to shout you guys out for being here as always. Um didn’t get a chance to do that in the beginning as I usually do. So, my apologies for that. But, um let’s get to some comments here and then we will call it a night. Detroit Drew says, “What up?” What up, dog? What’s going on, Drew? Devon says, “What up, Erica? We talked about this last time. Conditioning hard.” Yeah. Yeah. That’s the And and uh Ashton is definitely um been campaigning for that. He’s been saying that he uh he said it’s gonna be scary hours next season. So definitely obviously Kate is in the lab. You guys are probably in the lab right now as we speak. Um just getting ready for next season. So I’m looking forward to seeing um Kate’s progression as well. Detroit Red says, “Dud, what’s going on?” Detroit Red Sports Time says, “Zack Low has been showing a lot of love to Assar and also Ivy lately. It’s nice to see Pistons getting more and more.” Yeah, you would. It’s almost like they’re listening to us, you know, um, you know, because, you know, we have our ear to the street as far as understanding and paying attention to this team, right? So, it’s it’s just nice to see that, you know, that they’re getting the respect they deserve, they’re getting the attention they deserve, and they’re getting the love they deserve. And hopefully that plays a part into those guys wanting to stay here. We know Jaden Ivy already has roots here, right? His father, Javin Hunter, um, played he played football. His mom, you know, Neil Ivy, played for the Detroit Shock. his grand uh JD’s grandfather. Uh James Hunter played for the Detroit Lions. So there’s a lot of history. A lot of history. Um at least for Jaden and JD, too. I think JD is a guy who now understands who he needs to be for this team. And I think, you know, guys can get a little spoiled playing with Kade, right? We know they’re great point guards in this league, but I don’t know if there are too many guys out there that can get J and keep JD involved in the offense the way a Kate Cunningham can just because of how big Kate is, his vision, and his unselfishness once he, you know, once he’s able to make a move and run the pick and roll and find JD. He’s looking for him. So, I really hope that things like that really play a part into those guys wanting to stay. And like I mentioned and like Amari mentioned, um, a lot of times rookie extensions go sour or talks go sour because of the rigidity in, you know, of of the organization not wanting to really be reasonable or meet them in the middle, right? Or or sometimes it’s the other way. Sometimes guys think they’re worth more than they really are based on market value and not and they want to bet on themselves and they regret it later and things like that. So, a lot of different things can go into it. But I think that because Trajan is publicly saying over and over again that he wants to have these guys as basically the core. He wants to run with his core and he wants his core to be uh the focus. I think he’s going to demonstrate that by doing his best to at least try to meet these guys in the middle. And these guys don’t seem like greedy guys. They don’t seem like selfish guys. They’re they’re team first guys. So of course they want to take care of themselves and their family, but they’re not going to try to put the team in a bad spot, especially if they’re trying to win. And and these both of these guys want to win. So, I think it’s going to work out. I think both of these guys are going to be on this team going into next season. Um, I think they are going to be locked down. I think they’re going to come to an agreement and it would it would be it would go a long way, I think, for this team um if they were able to do that. So, great point by Sports Time. Let’s go to the next comment. What’s going on, Shannon? Shannon says, “Ron Holland um the second is a true Piston. You can tell by the way he carries himself.” Yeah, all all of at the ripe old age of 20 years old. Shannon, you know, I think a lot of time we forget that. I forget that sometimes. We had Charles Hill, his trainer and developmental coach, um on about a week ago. We were talking about that just how he’s so young. You know, his ceiling is so high, but he carries himself like a grown man. You know, he’s very much um sure of who he is and what he wants to be and he’s very quickly understanding what he needs to be for this team. So at 20 years old, just seeing him continue to be given more responsibility like we talked about in summer league like last year we know um he was kind of in the Jimmy Butler role Chicago Jimmy Butler role last year, right? Just being that defensive dog that eventually is going to build out their offense and polish their game offense. Tool’s already there. Now it’s a matter of you know letting your defense be your bread and butter and along the way season over season add this add that and while maintaining the defense because that’s who they are at the core right Jimmy that’s who he is he wants to defend Ron at the core wants to defend he can score right with the we see he can score but for him it’s just going to be a matter of season over season just building building the offense out and then being given more opportunity to do so because we know last year he didn’t really get a lot of opportunity to have the ball in his hands and to make plays. it was more so just defensive defensively just you know making sure that he’s locking down he’s bringing it every play and he did a great job with that. So that along with his shooting um improving is going to make him a very very dangerous player for a long time in this league. Great comment Shannon Devon says trade deadline is when they should make a move for size in the future. That’s that’s where I’m at Devon. That’s exactly where I’m at. I don’t think it’s going to h I don’t think anything’s going to happen between you know well be I’ll put it this way. I think the Pistons will more more likely to make a move as we get closer and closer to the deadline. I think what we have right now is kind of what we’re going to go with. Um and I think that’s okay. I think that’s fine for sure. But I do think they have flexibility now if they want to to be able to go out and make a move. And I think we it it would make more sense for them to kind of just stand pat and just evaluate what they have unless a deal falls in your lap that you just can’t turn down, right? I think it would make more sense for them to kind of stamp going into the season and then seeing how everything looks, evaluating these guys cuz you have until February 6, I think, is when the trade deadline is, right? So, you have time, you give yourself time between the start of the season and let’s just say October. That gives you four or five months, you know, going into going to the trade deadline to kind of see what you have over a big enough sample size to say, “Okay, we got to make this change. We got to do this. We’re too small up front. We got to do this. We got to do that.” I think going into the season as of right now, currently constructed, gives them a better opportunity to know what they need when they get to the trade deadline, but they have the option. They definitely have the option to go do it. And we’ll see what happens with that. Devine also says if they lock down Ji and JD, all they have to do is lock down Assar and then the sky is limit for this team. This team could be nasty. Really could be nasty really soon. The talent is there in the mentality. Yeah, 100% Devon. Yeah, absolutely. I think they should do their best to keep all of these guys. I really do. I really do. And I think you figure out the rest later. It’s like you get the talent and you figure out the rest later, right? If the talent isn’t meshing, you have such an abundance of talent that you can go and pick and choose, you know, what makes the most sense. You know, what’s kind of where we kind of topheavy at this position for? Are we topheavy at the guard and we’re a little light, you know, as far as our front court? Okay, we have the assets and we have the depth to be able to make a move, a bigger move while still not gutting our roster because we have depth that has the talent, right? So, I think lock all these guys in. I think you lock all these guys in if you can do it. Of course, you want to stay away from the sec second apron, but I don’t think that they will be anywhere near that if they still try to lock all these guys down based on their market value. I really don’t think so. So, I could be wrong. I’m not I’m not a guru or genius when it comes to contracts, but I know a little bit here and there. So, I’ve been paying attention to it and I really do think that they have an opportunity here to build something special if they lock their core down. So, we’ll see what happens with that. But, Devon, I agree with you. Knight says, “Great stream. Appreciate you, bro. Got a few more comments and then we’ll call it a night, guys.” Mega Hustler 31 313 says, “Caris Levert underrated signing.” Bro, I just I just dropped a video yesterday about Caris Levert and how I think he is the most important addition to this team. You guys make sure you go check that out. But a few things I was just saying is that just looking back at what Tan Langden always says, he said it over and over again. He wants size. He wants defensive versatility. He said it over and over again, right? Pretty much any interview any interview you’ve seen in the offseason, he’s he said that. So you look at guys like Caris Levert. Duncan Robinson. Carris Levert 66 1610 wingspan, right? Duncan Robinson 6’7, right? Bigger guys, bigger guards, bigger wings. The league is kind of going in that direction. Look at the Thunder. Look at the Pacers. The two teams in the finals, right? They have depth and they have size and that defensive versatility is what allows them to be able to do a lot of things defensively. So I really do think that Caris Levert is going to be very, very important for this team next season. also offensively giving the Pistons three guards who can do multi-dimensional things as far as being able to score the basketball and facilitate for others, playmate for others, right? All three of those guys can do that. The last last season the Pistons only had two. They had Kade and Jaden or Kaden Schroeder and Schroer was only here because Jaden was was not right. So we but it was just those two. It was always those it was K Jaden and Be’s or Kade Schroeder and Be’s. But now we have three guys, Kade, Jaden, and Levert, who can play either guard position, who can make plays for others, and who can make plays for themselves. And offensively, that makes you very hard to guard because you are very unpredictable. So that is why I think he is going to be very, very important for this team because he brings something that we didn’t have last year. He’s not the shooter of a bees, right? Bees at 41%. Levert at 37%, but 37 is nothing to sneeze at. He still makes the defense have to respect him if he’s open, and that creates for others, right? So, I really do think both of those guys are going to be important, but more so I think Caris is going to be more important than Duncan Robinson for that two-way that two-way reason we talked about. So, Devon says, “Did Lee get banned?” We don’t know yet. We don’t know yet. Devon, there’s been some footage of him working out, getting in workouts, things like that. Um, but I don’t think anything has been said as of yet as far as legally. So, I don’t really want to comment on that cuz I’m I’m not 100% sure. But he put on his Instagram story, I think it was yesterday, that I think I think and you can quote me, he says, “Best belief I’m coming back better.” So, I don’t know if I don’t know if that I don’t know if he’s if if that’s just cap. I don’t know if if there’s something to it cuz it could be something to it to where we don’t know about and he’s just waiting for his name to get clear. He just can’t speak on it. I don’t know. We don’t know. So, we got to wait and see. Hopefully, we get some news on that soon. But, if he is able to come back, guys, and the Pistons are able to bring cuz he’s been wearing Pistons gear. every time he’s posting is Pistons gear. Pistons, Pistons, Pistons. So, I think if he is able to come back, if he is cleared, I’m not saying he will be, but if he is, I would imagine the team that he would likely come back to is the Pistons, even if it’s on a discount, right? So, I do think that would be a possibility. And if that happens, it makes you so much more deep. It makes you so much deeper. Your bench just got a lot deeper. Now, you got Malik Beasy to go along with Caris and Duncan Robinson. Like, that that really adds to your your wing group off the bench. And I think that may give the Pistons options as far as what they may want to do going forward if they want to go get that big guy because even with Duncan Robinson’s contract, I think the second and third year are player options or something of that nature to where if it goes south, they can still move him if they need to, right? So, we’ll see. But the point is that the Pistons have a lot of flexibility. Um, and they’re they’re in good position right now moving forward. And the States don’t need to rush anything. When the right move comes along, they’ll know it and they’ll execute. All right, let’s go to a few more and we are out of here, guys. Far gone says uh unspoken salary dilemma paying a sergeant. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we have, you know, he still has that’s still that’s that’s next offseason though. That’s next offseason. You know, this offseason is about JD and Ji, right? Because obviously they came into the league year before he did. Um so the rook extension eligible this summer. Um my star is next summer, right? So you’re right. It’s it’s not something that the Pistons I’m sure are going to just dust under the rug, but right now the focus has to be the guys on the table. And that’s Jaden Ivy and Jaylen Durren. And I’m sure that Tan Langden and JB Bigger Staff and everybody in the front office is kind of planning for how to handle that cuz Assara is definitely a guy you do not want to lose. Period. 100% not. So yeah, but but it’s a good point, Fargon. We definitely can’t overlook it and act like it’s not there because it is. I just have confidence that they are already looking at it the same way we are for sure if not at a totally different level. Ray Floyd says, “Iivevy is a clutch player. So many buzz beaters.” You know what’s crazy, Ray Floyd? By the way, I love the love the picture right there for sure. Shout out to Ji. Um, it’s crazy because the games where he had gamewinners, I believe in both of those games, he made the shot before the shot before the gamewinner. I think the game against the Raptors, I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the game winner against the Raptors, right, the floater. I think he made the bucket before that to put them in position and the game against the Kings when he had the four-point play. I think he made the shot before that to put them in position. So, it’s not even just the buzzer beating. It’s just the late game clutch play. Jaden is not afraid, man. If you need to put the ball in somebody’s hands, if if it’s not Cade, I’m putting it in Jaden Ivy’s hands and letting him go and getting out the way, right? He’s not always going to make the right play. He’s not always going to hit the game winner, but he has that fire, but he’s he’s fearless. He loves those situations. Trust me on that. He loves those situations. So, you know, I I think that kind of gets missed because of the actual game winner, but go back and look. He actually hit some key buckets and did key bucket before the key bucket, right? So, the boy’s a gamer, clutch player, like you mentioned, Ray Floyd. He’s um Yeah, I hope they get these extensions done. That’s all I’m going to say. I’m going leave it at that. F. Appreciate you for the the super chat, bro. If you got another question, um, definitely throw it in the chat and I will get to it if I can before we end the stream. We got a few more comments we’re going to get to, um, and then we will call it. Dwayne, what’s going on, bro? Ray Floyd says, “There are a couple of great forests coming out of the next draft, but we won’t be able to get Yeah, I mean, yeah, unless we get some crazy trade that allows us to get a high draft pick and we have an asset on our team that we just aren’t using, right? Um, maybe a contender or something like that. Who knows, right? But yeah, it’s and honestly, I’m okay with that, bro. Because there’s there’s always going to be great players and great drafts. We have our great players from our great drafts, right? At some point, you got to move the ship forward. I’m not saying that you don’t understand that cuz I’m pretty sure you do, but you’re making the point. But K Cunningham, Jaden Ivy, Jaylen Duran, Thompson, Ron Holland, Isaiah Stewart, I’m good. We’re good. Like, the point of the draft is to eventually get out of the draft, right? The point of getting lottery picks is to eventually not need them anymore, right? If you if you needing lottery picks every single year, what are you doing in the front office? Right? So, um yeah, I definitely think that that’s a possibility, but I think at this stage, there’s no need for it. We have enough young guys on his team. Tan has said he wants to build around that now, and that means adding bets, right? So, at this point, Ray Floyd, you make a good point. They’re probably not going to be there for the Pistons. And for me, that’s a good thing. That’s a good thing. So, let’s move on. Ethan says, “I don’t want to lose any of those any of the core five.” Okay. So, I usually say core four, but I hear you. Or I say core six because I include Ron and Stew along with the starters in Kade, Jaden, Assar, and JD. Right. But Ethan says, “I don’t want to lose any of the core five. Kade, Ivy, Assar, Duran, Holland. Dumb that it’s a concern for players that we’ve drafted. That’s a design flaw in the salary.” Yeah, I mean the sal the the the CBA is now kind of geared toward guys or teams keeping their own guys if possible. Like the days of top heavy teams of getting three, you know, getting three superstars or three max slots and then getting a bunch of mid-level exception guys to go like those days are over. But those days are over at least for now for the foreseeable future until the CBA changes again. Maybe the second apron isn’t as impactful at the you know for the for when the rules change again for the CBA. But as of right now, you know, it makes sense if you if you have confidence in your guys that you have, right, that you’ve drafted that potentially be stars. You just keep those guys and write those guys out and invest in those guys and then add around the margins. We’ve seen, like I mentioned, the the Thunder have done that. I know Shay wasn’t drafted by, you know, by the Thunder. He was drafted by the Clippers, but they got him when he was very, very young. Very, very young. And you see the guys they drafted around him, right? The Jaylen Williams, the Chedongrrens. You see how when you do it the right way with your homegrown guys, it can really be it can really be fruitful and it can really be sustainable for you for a long time. But it takes time to build it. I think this was six this was uh Shay’s sixth season I think this past season. So he wasn’t like he was third year just coming into success, right? It took time for the organization to get right to build the foundation and to eventually be able to manifest it as we’re kind of seeing with the Pistons. So yeah, I think the trajectory is very similar. Dwayne Pierce says, “I like it better this way where teams can Exactly.” We just talked about that, Dwayne. 100%. I do too. I do too. Like, I’m not mad at play mobility and being able to go where you want to play, but I just like homegrown guys. I like homegrown guys. I I’ve always been a fan of that. I feel like it makes contract negotiations easier, right, from the perspective of the front office and the player. Just having that relationship, taking a chance on a guy, bring him to your team, growing him up. I think those are all things that are beneficial and that that can kind of endear players to the organization and vice versa, right? So, totally with you, Dwayne. Um, Ray Floyd says, “Can we afford our core?” I really hope so. I don’t know the numbers right now, Ray. I’m not going to lie to you. I’m not going to cap up here. Um, I do think it is possible if the Pistons are able to um work their cap properly at the end of the season to be able to be in position to still keep Assar and and sign him to a rookie um extension as well. But a lot of it’s going to depend on what happens this coming season and what happens with the negotiations with Jaden and Ji or with Jaden and JD. But I do think they can. I think it’s possible. It may put them close to the apron, the second apron, which I know they want to avoid at all costs cuz the apron is no joke. Like that’s like the grim reaper of the CBA. Like you don’t you do not want to be there. We saw the Boston Celtics pretty much just shed $200 million in contracts including Chris Apps who’s now with the Hawks, right? Just to get away like they won a championship. Bye. Bye. They didn’t even waste They didn’t even think about it. They just they knew the importance because it affects things like um draft picks. It affects things like one for one trades and you got it’s it’s a lot that goes into it other than just having to pay a bill, a extra bill like it has been in the past. Right. So, we’ll see how it plays out, but I think they can do it. Ray Dwayne says, “It took time for us to get right when we drafted a Zeke.” So, I Exactly. That’s That’s a taking us back a little bit, Dwayne. taking us back a little bit, but I wasn’t around for when Zeke got drafted, but I did do my homework. I did watch him play, but you’re 100% right. They were bad for a while. They were one of the worst teams, if not the worst team when he got drafted. So, it took time for them to go get the Bill and Beers and to draft the John Sally and the Dennis Robbins in the same draft, right? It took time and to get Joe Dumars. It took time to go get those guys. And those guys were not all big names coming out of college either. So, you build it the right way, you get the right guys, it can definitely work and it can be um sustainable. Last one from Dwayne says, “Got to figure Tobias will come back for less after his contract, so it’ll be interest.” Yeah, I think Tobias is going to start, guys. I’m not going to lie to you. I think I I have no information on this, but it seems like there was an understanding that Tobias was going to sign a two-year deal and play out that two-year deal, right? I don’t know for sure, but it just I just have that feeling. And I think and I think that’s okay. you know, $26 million a year. That’s not a bad contract for him. Especially now with the salary, the contracts booming and we’re like cuz it’s it takes time. It takes time sometimes to adjust to how much money these guys are making cuz this is it happens in waves. It happens in waves. Like 25 million now is not that bad at all. A couple years ago even like but with the you know when things change and you know the money goes up and the contracts go up and the TV deals go up, you know, they’re going to naturally make more money and as they should. But it just takes a while for us to get used to that jump, right? We got to see it with other guys getting signed and then we kind of get some relativity, right? But I think I definitely think he’s going to start next year. I think they’re going to honor that contract. I don’t think he’s going to get moved, anything like that. I think he’s earned that because last year he played his he played up to his contract pretty well. At least last year he was solid on and off the court. He came on late, started slow, had a great finish to the season, right? Played big, battling cat every game. You know what I mean? Like not getting bullied. He played he played very very well for this team. Getting the guys ready for the playoffs who they where they never been before, right? Getting them fitted for their suits and just the whole professionalism aspect. I think he’s earned the right to play out his contract. And I think he does. I I think he I hope he does. So, we’ll see. Same. I just know my OG’s told me before that we were hor. Yeah, don’t listen to it, Dwayne. That’s that’s a thing of the past. Ethan says, “I want to buy to retire at Piston. He can play the backup 41C.” Okay, that’s interesting. That’s kind of what Okay, so that’s kind of what Dwayne was saying. So, you guys think after this season, they’ll sign him to a very reasonable deal and then he can be that backup for I like that. I like that. We don’t always look ahead past next season or past this coming season, but looking ahead, if he’s open to that, we know he’s going to stay in shape, right? He he takes care of his body. He’s a consmate pro. I would not mind that at all. It would still be kind of small for even for a backup for it’s still kind of small, but because of his skill level and his experience and what he means to this team, I would live with that. I would live with that. And I would I would love to have him here and have him retire here cuz he’s just he’s just a good guy. He’s a good guy to have on your team, in your locker room, on your bench, all that. All right, y’all keep commenting, man. I’m trying to get the I’m trying to get these all out. Let’s let’s do a few more. Um, and then we’ll call it Giddy Kaminga Thomas asking for 30 million is crazy to me. Yes, even with the jump in salaries, that’s that’s that’s still like, come on, bro. I’m not giving Josh Giddy $30 million, bro. I’m not doing it. Kaminga is the more talented player, but I’m not giving him $30 million. I’m not giving Cam Thomas $30 million. If I’m not giving JD and Jaden $30 million, I don’t know if the Pizzards are going to. But if they don’t, there’s no way I’m giving these other guys that. Absolutely not. And that’s no shade to them. But come on, bro. Come on, man. Everybody got to Everybody has to get paid. You know, everybody on the roster has to get paid. It’s not just about one individual guy, but there’s no way I’m doing that. I remember when Isaiah asked for 2.5 million and it was a problem, right, William? And it took time, William, right, to get to to to adjust to a guy like Isaiah. That was the whole point I was making back then. 2.5 million was a lot, right? But but eventually as the game grew, the popularity grew, the jersey sales grew, the attendance in games, all those things happened, and you saw this the money start to increase for these guys. They earned it, right? So, it took a while, I’m sure, for you, William, to adjust from 2.5 million from Isaiah being a lot to now Josh Giddy, Kaminga, and Kemp Thomas ask for 30 million season. That’s crazy. That is crazy, man. All right. Ray Floyd says he retired Piston. Yep. Okay, last one. Dwayne, and if Bobby is what we believe he is, he he could be he could have we could have a nice fourman rotation. It or four rotation. It’ll probably just be smaller than I like to be. Yeah. I mean, Bobby’s 610 like like uh Omari was saying, he’s 6’10. He’s a legit 610, not 69 with shoes on. He’s he’s 6’10. I’ve seen him in person. He’s he’s 610. Um big big and he’s he’s got a lot of talent. So with me, I think he could be the backup for um I think once again guys, when he’s placed in an individual specific role, cuz we talked about it earlier with when Amari was here, guys, real quick and we’ll call it a night. Certain guys just have a skill set to where they they can be good. They’re good at a lot of different things when given the opportunity. You just don’t know because you don’t see them given the opportunity. But once they get it, you’re like, “Wow, he can do that, too.” Well, the game really comes easy to him. Wow, he can do a lot. You know what I mean? Like certain guys like Ryan, you see they just have the ability to do a lot of different things well, right? But other at the NBA level, but other guys are not built like that. I think Bobby is one of those guys who is going to be a very specific player in certain roles, knocking down shots, playing solid defense, playmaking when it’s there, because you mentioned he’s not a guy who’s just going to get past his guy. You got to you got to kind of build around him and put him in those positions to be able to be successful in that Simony Fontio role. That’s literally all I see for him is doing a better job of that. Knocking down shots more consistently, which he has to work on, right? Playing solid defense. He plays good help defense. He plays good team defense, right? Um, and when he has the opportunity, being able to put the ball on the floor, attack and close outs when there’s penetration and the ball skipped to him or like I mentioned before, having Isaiah Stewart, who was one of the best screeners in the league, we seen Isaiah Stewart last season just eliminating defenders with screens, just eliminating them, right? So, you got that that can get Bobby into space. Once he gets into space, what do you do? You got to pick your poison. He’s going to find the right guy or make the shot. or also dribble handoffs when Steu’s bringing the ball to him and then setting a screen and then Bobby has the momentum to get downhill in space with the defender is getting screened. So, there are ways to get him the basket. There are ways to put him in position to be successful and I think the Pistons are going to find out how to do that and that’s why I think he’s going to be the backup for going into next season, but we’ll see what happens. So, we will call it there, guys. It’s been a great stream as always. I appreciate Amari as always coming on, showing love, bringing the knowledge, man. Um, make sure you guys go follow Omari um on Twitter and make sure you guys go check out his articles with the Detroit Free Press. I’ve checked them out myself. Just like what I said with Eric Vincent, like these guys are really good. They really know what they’re talking about and um they’re about their business. So, make sure you guys go support them as always. Go follow them and all that. So, we will end it here, guys. It’s been a great show with you guys as always. And y’all know the drill, man. Until next time, Detroit first everybody. Peace. me down. I’m getting back up. Cuz when I step on the floor, you know your time’s down. I’m on my way up and I’m not going to stop. We headed straight to the top. And I know I got to waste it. I got no time to waste it. Everything with everything we hear with We’re done. Here we go. Here we go.
Downtown Deuce is Joined by Pistons beat writer for the Free Press, Omari Sankofa to dissect the Pistons off-season moves.
They look ahead to next season, and discuss realistic expectations for the Pistons, who are looking to build on their success from last season.
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Was able to come in and provide an energy infusion!
Klintman gets a little lost sometimes on the court! Still needs some pt and experience! May be up and coming 4 for Pistons!
The Pistons shouldn't touch Josh Giddey with a 10 ft pole. There's a reason OKC traded him, who wants to deal with that distraction.