The greatest Detroit Pistons of all time by height

Detroit Pistons: Greatest player at each height

7’0′

Greg Monroe

Before Andre Drummond there was…well, Greg Monroe.  Moose had a nice rookie season, averaging 9.4 points and 7.5 boards while establishing himself as the center of the future. He was even better in his sophomore campaign, raising those numbers to 15.4 and 9.7. Detroiters felt they had something in the one-time 7th overall pick.

But come that June draft, the Pistons couldn’t resist selecting Andre Drummond with the 9th overall pick and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how logjams are made. Not with logs and jams but with two 7-footers in the year 2012.

The Twin Tower experiment wasn’t even felled by injury; it was victim to the ever-changing beautiful game of basketball and the fact that neither Drummond nor Monroe could be counted on to stick a jumper anywhere further than 15 feet from the basket. And Drummond couldn’t even do that, as his free throw percentage attests.

One could wonder, what might have happened had the 2012 NBA Draft gone differently, and Greg Monroe had been left to continue growing into the role of starting center. Had the Detroit Pistons a shred of luck, emerging with the likes of Damian Lillard or Bradley Beal, maybe the last 15 years or so wouldn’t be so hard to swallow for Pistons fans.