Stan Van Gundy hired Jeff Nix (pro scouting) and Brian Wright )college scouting) as assistant general managers before the season. They report to general manager Jeff Bower.
Now, the crew is preparing for its second offseason.
The mission remains the same – find the best players that fit – but the way the Pistons are asking their scouts to go about it has changed, Bower said.
“We’ve asked them to step out of their comfort zone and to write reports that were not only the narratives of what they saw, with descriptive language, but also to grade and evaluate some very, very specific things on a night-by-night basis,” Bower said.