Detroit Pistons: How the Pistons can be next year’s Atlanta Hawks

Detroit Pistons: The final step to becoming the Atlanta Hawks

The Detroit Pistons have the complementary players and secondary star, and will soon hopefully have their superstar, but they are still missing one of the elements that helped the Hawks make a leap.

Atlanta went out and got Danilo Gallinari, Bogdan Bogdanovic to add to Kevin Huerter, giving them a trio of shooters who offer a variety of looks to defenders.

Gallinari is a stretch-four who is brilliant in the pick-and-roll, Bogdanovic is more of a spot-up shooter and Huerter showed that he can score from all over. Having three players who can stretch the floor is important when you have a  point guard with a high usage rate like Trae Young, as they opened up space for him to operate and made the Hawks very difficult to defend.

There are some good shooters in the draft, but they are unlikely to make the type of impact that veterans like Gallinari and Bogdanovic made for the Hawks.

I think this is the big thing that will hold the Detroit Pistons back from making a leap this season, as they just don’t have the cap space to go out and land a veteran shooter and right now they don’t have one on the roster.

I think the Detroit Pistons are one more season away from really making noise in the Eastern Conference, as they just won’t have the wiggle room to add the type of veterans they need to complete their roster.

But the Pistons are getting close, and the addition of Cade Cunningham will put them one step nearer their ultimate goal, which is to be in contention for titles consistently.