Detroit Pistons Season Success Rests In Young Core’s Hands | How Much Improvement Must Take Place?

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1. 1st Listen. Word up!!

2. 3 weaknesses. 1.) Need a quality PF. 2.) Need a backup point guard. 3.) Need a tall, seven foot, two-way center. Ron Holland is only 20 years old and will be 20 until July 2026. His best is still years away. I think we are going to see the beginnings of a nasty defense THIS year and this is going to be a fun year to watch.

3. 1st Listen. Ku I think you're spot on. It has to be both Ivey and Thompson. Losing Beasley is done…we need these 2 guys to step up and be exactly as you described. Anything less won't cut it. The East is open. We gotta take advantage and it start with Ivey and Ausar being available and effective.

4. you think we’ll see stew run w ausar N ron this year? maybe a way to utilize stews shooting improvements

5. So Ausar doesn’t necessarily have to improve just be healthy???

   What should Ausar averages look like next season to indicate he took a leap? For me he must improve his 3pt% and ft% from 20 and 60% and him creating offense for him self would be nice as well

6. Last season, Pacers game was a rivalry because they just hated each other. Don't need narratives to be a rivalry, just need beef and those two teams had it more than any other opponent we played. I also think history repeats and this has been one in the past.

7. I think its gotta be Ron, Ausar, and Ivey……more then likely Duren will be similar to last year IMO

8. The young guys definitely have less help than they had last year, that's for sure.

9. The person who needs to make the biggest jump this year is Trajan Langdon. Get the team a legitimate power forward. And pay Ivey and Duren. If Ivey and Duren make another jump, they won't be able to afford the power forward they need next year.

10. I think the Orlando Magic are the Detroit pigeons, rival team. They are the team that could be in their way to a champion

11. I don't consider the Rockets any sort of "rivals". I don't care about draft trash talking at all (that's for women and little kids on twitter). The Amen and Ausar thing is fun sure but that's 2 guys, not 2 teams. To me the only rivals the Pistons have are the Bulls and Pacers. I guess if you're too young, you don't view the Bulls as a rival but I don't see it that way. And it's sad to me that you can be too young to remember Malice at the Palace, but that's how it is these days. People want this artificial bullshit rivalry over stuff with real history.

12. Mid off is crazy 😂 but true

13. Silver blew it by not having the "groups" in the in season tournament just be the divisions so that they could build some rivalries. Silver has destroyed division significance and division rivalries. That was a golden opportunity to build them back up.

14. The jump Ausar would have to take to average what Ivey averaged or more is crazy KU the best bet is Ivey improving or both

15. …so the magic don’t exist now?

16. You must be sleep deprived. Talking about this team needs to wait another two years to find out where these players fit. If that's what turns out to happen and I was Cade, I would demand a trade like A.D. did with New Orleans. Any teams that know they have star for more than two years and do nothing to put players around him deserve to lose that player.

17. The Knick’s are the rival

18. Ku for real.. Knicks and Pistons are a Rivalry now.. Pistons beat them so often in the regular season last year and knicks won the playoff series in 6 games.. Rivalries do not exist just because the teams have beaten each other in the playoffs every year

19. Expect Holland to improve from hardly playing last season.

20. Just got that feeling that we took too big a jump last year and we're set up for a half step backward year!

21. Ausar barely gets 10 points a game but Ivey is the one who needs improvement 😭