The Detroit Pistons were eliminated in the first round of the Las Vegas Summer League playoffs because their best player didn’t play and the other team had an overqualified big man rampaging through everything.
...That sounds familiar, but I can’t place my finger on why.
Anyway, Summer League is always an opportunity to take stock of where a team’s young guys are heading into training camp, which is an eternity away. Here’s what we learned about the Pistons’ young guys:
Bruce Brown can contribute even if he’s not shooting
This was so apparent, I wrote about it two games in.