The Detroit Pistons’ season has started miserably, with the team winning just one game in six tries and only getting 19 minutes from rookie Cade Cunningham.
The entire team has started off cold and the Pistons’ offense has featured a roster’s worth of disappointment so far.
This is a tough way to start a season, especially after we spent a LONG offseason dreaming about the team making a leap and possibly a run at the play-in tournament.
Just six games into the season and I am already seeing the “tank” talk rear its ugly head on Pistons’ Twitter, which I understand given how things have started and the hope that future draft picks provide.
But I am not nearly ready for that yet, so let’s can the “tank” talk until much later in the season, shall we?
Don’t give up on the Detroit Pistons
If you want a reason for some amount of hope for the Detroit Pistons just look around the league. There are seven teams that have only won one game so far and three others that have only won two games.
Yes, the Pistons are a half game off the worst record in the league, but they are only 1.5 games back of the play-in as well.
We’ll see what this team is made of in November, as they have a brutal schedule and may not be favored in any of the games for the month.
If the Pistons can’t manage to sneak in a few unexpected victories, things could get ugly, but we’re not there yet.
The Detroit Pistons are a young, rebuilding team whose success won’t be measured in how many games they win but how much better their players get in the process, but it’s a long season and I do not feel like cheering for my team to lose, at least not at the beginning of November.
By the end of the month we may have all changed our tune but for now, keep the “tank” talk holstered until the Pistons are definitively out of it.
Things have not started the way we wanted them to, but the Detroit Pistons are not tanking at this point in they season, nor should they be. Come see me in December, but until then I’ll be cheering for this team to turn things around and go on a run.