Pistons Remake the Roster Around Shooting as Camp Opens in Detroit

The remaking of our Detroit Pistons is officially underway, and the fingerprints are everywhere as training camp opened Tuesday at the Henry Ford Pistons Performance Center. This is a new-look group — Tobias Harris, Isaiah Stewart, and Marcus Sasser are gone, with John Collins, Isaiah Joe, and Taurean Prince brought in, three men who each shot 40.0% or better from deep for their respective teams last season. Why the facelift? Look at the drop-off. We finished with the ninth-best offensive rating and a 117.3 net rating in the regular season, averaging 117.8 points a night. Then the playoffs came, Cleveland sent us home in the second round, and the offense cratered: 110.4 offensive rating, 104.9 points per game, just 35.9% from three over 14 games. Trajan Langdon's answer is spacing and shooting. Cade Cunningham even ran a player-led minicamp out in Southern California this summer — nearly the whole roster showed up, with Jalen Duren the lone absence amid his contract dispute. A 19-man camp roster now gets to work.