Detroit Pistons depth chart after trade for Noel and Burks

Detroit Pistons’ depth chart option #2

There are certainly more than two options for Dwayne Casey, and as I said, it’s likely the Pistons aren’t finished making moves.

One possibility is that Casey makes rookies Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren earn their spots, and also tries to distribute the shooting more equally, which could mean moving Ivey to the bench.

I really don’t think this will happen, but if Detroit wants more shooting in the starting five, they could switch out Ivey for Burks.

Another option would be to move Kelly Olynyk or Isaiah Livers to the starting power forward spot and push MBIII to the bench, which might be more palatable and would give the Pistons a starting five/bench that looked like this:

• Cade Cunningham/Killian Hayes
• Jaden Ivey/Alec Burks
• Saddiq Bey/Hamidou Diallo
• Kelly Olynyk/Isaiah Livers-Marvin Bagley III
• Isaiah Stewart/Nerlens Noel/Jalen Duren

This puts a little more spacing around Cade Cunningham and makes for a very fun bench unit that is super athletic and would try to run and lob teams off the floor.

Dwayne Casey certainly has more options than he did last season, but the Pistons may still have some of the same problems, namely a lack of 3-point shooting and spacing.

But the offseason is far from over, so these possible rotations may be blown out of the water by the end of the weekend.