AUBURN HILLS – The Pistons go into the off-season with a few different horizons at play for their future at point guard.
Jordan Bone probably isn’t a candidate to address the first of those, but he could be a part of solving the second.
The most immediate Pistons need is to replace Ish Smith with the second unit. Free agency is the most likely means to do so with Smith – himself a free agent – among the candidates in the mix.
If the Pistons can find someone who can take on Smith’s role for 2019-20 with the possibility of shouldering more of the burden going forward – perhaps someone capable of starting if Reggie Jackson, a free agent in 2020, signs elsewhere – so much the better.