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Stan Van Gundy plans to watch the playoffs, not to beat himself up for missing them in his first season as Pistons coach or to motivate him for next season but to glean as much about players he might pursue as free agents in July as possible.
The biggest priority between now and the mid-May NBA draft combine will be steeping himself on the lottery prospects the Pistons will be sorting through from then until the June 25 draft. But the Pistons also need to prepare for the July 1 start of free agency and that means viewing their targets from as many perspectives as possible.