The 2019-2020 NBA season was full of surprises, especially for fans of the Detroit Pistons. If the season is officially over, what did we learn?
With lofty expectations of winning over the predicted 38 wins before the season, us Detroit Pistons fans quickly realized that might not be possible. There was a lot of issues that plagued this team early, the primary one of course being one that’s been the bane of the Piston’s existence as of late, injury.
As I unfortunately predicted in my 5 reasons the Pistons won’t make the playoffs article, the Pistons relied a lot on injury prone players heading into the season.
I really thought that Derrick Rose would have been the one to miss serious time but after Reggie Jackson’s “first healthy offseason” he showed his true colors and only played 14 games for Detroit this season before being bought out and signing with the Los Angeles Clippers.
After last year, we were fortunate enough to get the most games played in a season since 2013-14.
Of course, the silver lining to that was that the reigning “Blake of the Year” literally gave Detroit his all, playing his heart out with a torn meniscus against the Bucks in the first playoff series in the Little Caesars Arena.
Blake, as we all know did suffer an injury this season and only played 18 games this year. From the first game of the season, it was clear that Blake was a shell of himself and wasn’t close to 100 percent to start the year.
That makes me worried about the treatment of our player’s health, but I imagine that Blake Griffin said he was fine as he demanded to play at the end of last season.
While the season has not gone as planned, both in the win-loss column and the current suspension of the NBA season due to COVID-19, I’ve found some positives and five things that us Pistons fans learned this otherwise bad season.