Winners and losers from the Detroit Pistons 2022 preseason

The Detroit Pistons start their regular season tomorrow and still have some big question marks hanging over the young roster.

They didn’t get a win in preseason, which is not the end of the world, but Detroit didn’t look very good doing it, as they turned the ball over a lot and shot poorly from long range.

You expect some growing pains from a team this young, and players and teams often use the preseason to work on different strategies and parts of their game that we might not see in the regular season.

We have to hope that guys like Cade Cunningham will find another level when the games get real and what what we saw in the preseason wasn’t a sign of things to come.

But it wasn’t all bad, as there were some players who emerged from preseason as winners whether it was through increased opportunity or showing that they have progressed in certain areas.

Of course, there were also some guys who came out with even more questions around them than when they went in, so the preseason had both winners and losers.

Detroit Pistons preseason winner: Kevin Knox

Kevin Knox only played one game in the preseason and scored 13 points on 3-of-6 shooting from long range. If he can shoot consistently, he will likely crack the rotation, though we’ll definitely need to see more than one game to make that determination.

Knox really won by default, as injuries to Marvin Bagley III, Hamidou Diallo and Alec Burks may have opened up some minutes in the rotation that Knox can claim. If Knox can grab a role early in the season, he might be able to keep it, as the Detroit Pistons need shooting and Hamidou Diallo isn’t likely to provide it.

Diallo is also on the final year of his deal and making more than Knox, so his early injury problems (though he should be back for tomorrow) could open the door for Knox to take his spot.