We’ve spent many years stewing together in collective misery over the biggest mistakes Joe Dumars made (if any … are there still commenters out there defending Dumars? I’ve been out of the loop for a while … let me know), but the most pointless (and fun) of those revolved around players who were mostly glued to the bench in Detroit, were given away for little return and blossomed into productive players with proper development elsewhere.
For years, the topic centered on three players — Amir Johnson, Arron Afflalo and Carlos Delfino. All three were likable, seemed hard-working and had small but vocal proponents during their time as Pistons begging for them to get minutes before ultimately being shipped out to bring in higher priced luminaries such as Ben Gordon, Charlie Villanueva and Chris Wilcox.