Ranking the 7 worst Pistons starters of the Andre Drummond era

Ranking the 7 worst Pistons starters of the Andre Drummond era

#1: Jon Leuer

Of all the horrible signings that Stan Van Gundy made in his tenure in Detroit, Jon Leuer has to be the worst. He was one in a long tradition of Pisotns overpaying players that no one else wanted, essentially bidding against themselves. See Bagley, Marvin for a current example.

This was another case of the Pistons looking for a stretch to put around Drummond and instead getting a mediocre player who couldn’t defend or stretch much of anything but the band of his underwear.

Leuer, the “stretch” four, shot 29 percent from long range, couldn’t defend a traffic cone and this was his best season with the team, as he at least averaged 10 points per game. He’d be on this list more, but this was the only season he got enough starts to be eligible. This season seemed to end whatever confidence Leuer had in his shot, as he mysteriously just stopped shooting 3-pointers after this as if he were traumatized. It would make sense, as we were all traumatized watching him play on a mediocre team that won 37 games, just bad enough to miss the playoffs, but not bad enough to get a good draft pick.

That was the story of the Drummond era, as the team leaned too heavily on a one-dimensional player who was just good enough to keep them in NBA purgatory. Couple that with a bunch of egregious draft misses and some of the worst free-agent signings in team history, and you have the Andre Drummond era.