The best thing about this just-concluded season of Detroit Pistons basketball is that it seemed to get so bad that it forced change. There was no clinging to some long-term vision that hadn’t yet come to fruition, there was no scapegoating bad injury luck, and it got so bad that it doesn’t appear that even a No. 1 overall pick and $60 million in upcoming cap space is going to save Troy Weaver’s job.
The season was a failure of ownership, leadership, and coaching. Tom Gores, Weaver, and Monty Williams all get Fs for this fiasco.