If you’re searching for an Eastern Conference team which may make an important leap contemplate the Detroit Pistons.
Though Detroit yields the vast majority of a roster which won just 29 games per year ago (also Jodie Meeks, D.J. Augustin and Caron Butler), Stan Van Gundy’s arrival as commanding officer will add structure and discipline.
We understand SVG wins that he sees a way by fitting playing style to be successful and wherever he moves. It’s him if anybody can sort out backcourt ineptitude and the mess in Detroit.
That’s not to say there will not be major hurdles, according to Zach Lowe of Grantland.com:”Stan Van Gundy is a top-five coach. This team will probably be frisky, however the Brandon Jennings–Josh Smith combination–even when they perform fewer moments together–has reached’don’t hope until you see them do good basketball things standing.'”
Jennings and smith are harmful commodities . Both can take on their team from games if not precisely managed. For the Pistons Van Gundy will need to rein those two in while also getting more from the rest of the roster–Greg Monroe and man-child Andre Drummond particularly.
If Drummond provides Van Gundy a passable Dwight Howard impersonation (circa 2009), this team will be in company. And by company, I mean somewhere at or marginally above .500.
Let’s not get too crazy.
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