Chapter 35: Sink the Pistons
On January 30, 2018, the Pistons quietly closed a big deal with the Clippers, sending Harris, Bradley, Boban, a 2018 first-round pick and a 2019 pick in exchange for Blake Griffin, Bryce Johnson and Willie Reed.
This deal has never been in the slightest bit of a storm before, and by the time the fans heard the news, the deal was done!
Willie Reid is a coolie blue-collar worker, changed three teams in three years, and ten days later, the Pistons sent Reed and a 2020 second-round pick to the Bulls in exchange for Dafan's former disciple Jamal Nelson, but Nelson is 36 years old this year, and he has long since lost his courage, only played 9 games in the Pistons, and completed the last NBA performance in the Pistons, and on the same day that the Pistons traded Reed, the Pistons sent Bryce Johnson to the Grizzlies with a 2019 pick. Got James Ennis, who is now playing for the Rockets and playing reasonably well. Ennis played the last game of the season on behalf of the Pistons, playing an average of 20 minutes per game and scoring 7.5 points, which is still quite good, but the Pistons don't say Ennis, even Middleton, Avralo still can't see the talent, and he did not renew his contract with Ennis at the end of the season, Ennis switched to the Rockets for 2 years and 3.4 million, and seized the opportunity when Anthony was not in good shape, and played a value.
I don't know if you have noticed that the Pistons gave away 3 draft picks in a row in Griffin's big trade and the subsequent clean-up player deal, especially this one in the first round, you must know that the Pistons have a bad record, and this first-round pick is likely to become a lottery pick, so it is obvious that for the Pistons' poor management for three consecutive years, Dafan, chose to gamble, take the future, and bet on the present.
Obviously, the Pistons' ultimate goal is not Reed and Johnson, but Griffin, Griffin is the champion in 2009, has been playing for the Clippers, and the ball style is explosive, is the team's box office guarantee, last year, Griffin just renewed a five-year contract with the Clippers with a total value of $173 million, everyone thought Griffin was going to end the Clippers, but why did the Clippers break it up and trade Griffin?
The overall reason is diverse, the Clippers formed CP3 that year, Griffin and Jordan Jr. turned Los Angeles into an empty city, the bench is still sitting on the Super Six Way, the team's expectations for the Clippers are guaranteed to the East, although after Griffin came to Los Angeles, the Clippers make the playoffs every year, but most of them are the role of playing soy sauce in one round, winning the first round twice, once shaved by the Spurs, once reversed by the Rockets 1:3, there has been no new breakthrough in the record for many years, the Clippers are determined to rebuild, off-court factors, Rumors of discord between Griffin and CP3 arose, after the Clippers traded out the older CP3, Griffin led the team alone with a miserable record, the court performance was unsatisfactory, and the off-court plot was even more bloody, Griffin abandoned Cameron who had two children after becoming famous, and fell in love with Jenner Jr., not only that, but also the gossip that the team's head coach and president Rivers Sr. has always wanted to train his son Xiao Li and finally gave Xiao Li a salary contract, the process is to gradually put CP3, Griffin, Jordan Jr., Lu Weiquan took ......
All in all, Griffin is here, and for the Pistons, they've been waiting for years to finally have a superstar!
Griffin can be inside and out, has strong physical fitness, and can control the ball, can organize, is not as dominant as the offensive end on the defensive end, and has a crispy body, with a career attendance rate of only 66.7%, and a serious history of kneeling, but Griffin in a healthy state is still the top three No. 4 position in the league, and he and Drummond form the most expensive interior duo in the NBA!
Okay, let's just say this, there's nothing to say later, anyway, I didn't make the playoffs this year, and I played like this year after year, which is really boring.
By the way, Dafan will be out of class after the end of the season......
Throughout the long history of the Pistons, it can be divided into four phases, the first stage is the ancient period, representing players Ranier, Dave Bing, and Tripka, the second stage is the Bad Boy Army, representing Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumas, Bill Lambier, Dennis Rodman, the third stage is the period when Dumas was in power, that is, the grassroots F4 period, and the fourth stage is the period when Dafan was in power.
The character of the Pistons players has been handed down, it is tenacious, unyielding, and the game is full of strong physical confrontation, after Dumas took power, the Pistons Five Tigers achieved success, won the championship, and reached the Eastern Conference finals for six consecutive years, becoming an important force in the East Before James was crowned, and later as the Five Tigers gradually left the team, the Pistons' management's team building plan was not online, and they began to want to correct Starkey, and found that their ability was far behind, and later they wanted to cultivate Monroe as a cornerstone, and cultivate you well. Got Smith, Jennings and Starkey grabbed the ball, and finally broke up with Monroe, the Pistons didn't get it, Bai cultivated Monroe for five years, Drummond is the only conscience of the Pistons in recent years, but until now, the defensive end still has a good dominance, and he has won two rebounding titles, but on the offensive end, he is still far from the peak Howard level imagined by Dafan, and then Jennings was accidentally seriously injured, Dafan waved his knife and directly cut Smith, laying the foundation for the development of the Pistons in the next few years*, You must know that in order to cut Smith, the Pistons have 5.4 million salary space squeezed every year, 5.4 million was almost a full middle-class contract at the time, if there is this 5.4 million, it will not be impossible to keep Pope, and then think about setting up Thunder Strike-Jackson as the cornerstone, but I didn't expect to have a urine sex with Starkey, and let Pop go for nothing, and now I have Griffin and Drummond's twin tower combination, but it is incompatible with the current small ball......
Sink, Detroit Pistons!