When Stan Van Gundy was hired into the Detroit Pistons organization in 2014, he brought in a small analytics team with him. This was considered to be a long-overdue development for the franchise.
The new regime is looking to continue that development with the hiring of Sammy Gelfand.
Gelfand is well-known in the analytics community for his work with the Warriors. The Warriors now-famous benchmark of hitting 300 passes per game was largely spearheaded by Gelfand.
When Steve Kerr took over the team after a disappointing 2014 season, it was the addition of Gelfand that enabled them to create those standards.