1. What was your immediate reaction when the Pistons drafted Stanley Johnson?
Patrick Hayes: Words not even fit for the internet. Plain stupidity.
In other words, it further adds to the possibility that Stan Van Gundy might not be cut out for this whole “making personnel decisions” thing. They clearly liked Stanley Johnson, and that’s fine. They likely assumed he’d be the guy most likely to be available at eight and settled on him. Those are fine conclusions. But you have to build in contingencies in case the implausible happens. In this case, Justise Winslow was clearly the better player, he fell to them, but the front office had already made up their mind and fortuitous circumstance didn’t change that judgment.