Who is most to blame for the Detroit Pistons disaster of a season?

Monty Williams

We've been piling on Monty Williams all season, and while some of it is deserved criticism, this is not all on him.

Williams walked into a mess of a situation, and if you want to blame him for anything, it should be taking a job that he didn't have a passion or desire to take.

But we can point the finger at some of the ways he's used his roster, from his up-and-down relationship with Jaden Ivey to his fascination with Killian Hayes and Isaiah Livers to his inability to adjust his starting lineup to maximize the potential of his core players.

We're no closer to knowing how this roster and the eight players who will be on it next season fit together, which should have been the only objective after it became abundantly clear this team wasn't going to compete for a playoff spot.

It took Williams nearly 60 games just to settle on a starting lineup and his rotation has had no consistency and often no logic. Players have not fallen into consistent roles and there are more questions about how some of these players fit in (Jaden Ivey, Isaiah Stewart, Marcus Sasser) than there are answers.

While I don't put the Pistons' abysmal record on coach Williams, I do blame him for not plugging his players into consistent and defined roles so that they can work specifically on the things that will make them successful NBA players.