Troy Weaver doesn’t like to sit still. On Friday, he made another move in his effort to ‘restore’ the Detroit Pistons. Svi Mykhailiuk, the longest-tenured Piston with two years, one month and six days with the club, was dealt with a second-round pick to Oklahoma City Thunder for 22-year-old Hamidou Diallo.
The move means Detroit is bringing a long (6-foot-11 wingspan in addition to a 6-foot-5 height) and athletic wing in place of taller player (6-foot-7), but one with T-rex arms (6-foot-6 wingspan) and less agility. But it is also a change in more basketball specific terms: the addition of a playmaking wing who has skills allowing him to use his premier athleticism to penetrate the arc and attack the basket in place of a perimeter-oriented wing who was developing some secondary ball handling ability to penetrate the arc.