As your humble servant running this website, my duty is to provide you with unbridled optimism, healthy skepticism, and reasonable pragmatism regarding your Detroit Pistons. Sometimes that is a tough needle to thread. But how does this one hit you?
The Detroit Pistons should expect to improve by more than 10 games this season. In fact, it wouldn’t be unreasonable for them to double their win total compared to last year. If and when they accomplish this feat, they will still a bottom-10 NBA team hovering around the 5-8th worst record in the NBA.
Yes, we can see better basketball on the court, a big increase in win totals, and still root for a team that has a 40% chance at a top-4 pick in a stacked NBA Draft.