We should all be rooting for Stanley Johnson to succeed moving forward. He owns all the crucial features to be not only a fan favorite but a staple of this team and on a larger scale the city of Detroit. With Marcus Morris shipped off to Boston, it’s time for Johnson, now entering his third year, to leave his mark on this team.
Defensively, he still gets lost on too many team concepts but can hold his own checking twos and threes throughout the league. Defense was his calling card coming out of college and remains so today.