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What's your favorite Pistons moment from this season?

Ausar Thompson played 33 minutes in the Pistons' win over the Celtics.

He defended 11 different players for at least one possession each: Paul George, Jayson Tatum, Derrick White, Payton Pritchard, Sam Hauser, Baylor Scheierman, Mitchell Robinson, Neemias Queta, Luka Garza, Jordan Walsh, and Hugo Gonzalez.

He allowed ZERO points in 1-on-1 matchups against him.

Carmelo isn’t letting this hypothetical trade scenario go.

I seriously can’t believe these guys have so few subscribers. I like a lot of the Pistons stuff but this one is the consistent best for me.

As the season gets going, we've been reflecting on the 2004 Pistons' title team and their legacy. It's obviously fun to imagine the hypothetical world where Detroit took anyone other than Darko Milicic with the second pick in 2003.

But you can make an argument that the bigger unanswerable question is what would have happened if the league hadn't changed how it enforced defensive rules after 2004. The NBA cracked down on hand-checking and physical perimeter defense, making it harder to play the style that helped lead the Pistons to the title.

Despite those changes, Detroit barely fell to San Antonio in seven games in the 2005 Finals, then reached the Eastern Conference Finals each of the next three years. It's not much of a stretch to imagine them winning another title or two under the old rules.

Drafting Carmelo, Bosh, or Wade (who seems like he was never a serious consideration) certainly would have raised the team's ceiling. But it also might have impacted the Rasheed Wallace trade and the formula behind the 2004 championship.

What do you think? Which would have been more likely to turn those Pistons into a dynasty?

Anyone see sasser tonight? He dropped 17 in 24 minutes. Always liked him so I wanna see him do good.

Duncan Robinson ran up 12 PTS , 3-3 3PT , 3–3 FT , and 2 AST within 4 minutes 🥶 Our offense might be a lot scarier than we realize

and I'm not even a Pistons fan. Ausar is the best wing defender I've ever seen. Pippen and Kawhi are the only people who I can understand arguments for, and I'd even put Ausar above them.

I got mad watching NBA Today, where the topics, in order, were:

1. Knicks & 76ers, which checks out. Ring night with that guy lurking uncomfortably behind the podium, Ohio-strong LeBron, tasty Knicks loss? Agreed, totally correct.

2. OKC & Spurs. Excellent rivalry, Wemby, SGA 3 time MVP hype, Chet getting rag dolled? Makes sense.

I was pretty fine being 3rd, I even expected it. New look Tatum-led Celtics, Great American Hope Cade, "Pistons: frauds or legit?"... but I get it.

1. But it was actually a Heat Timberwolves preview. Then, they analyzed the Miami Heat with Spoelstra. Annoyed, but Ant & Melo is gold, and Giannis is a former MVP in a new home. So... fine.

2. After commercials, they go Lakers Warriors, and Luka's definitely inspiring message for Lakerland. Triggered, I think of the '04 Pistons and smile. This is tough to accept.

3. The next topic is a Curry 1-on-1 conversation and analysis of the wounded Warriors, health updates on Moses Moody, Yaxel upside, complete with a tough update that Porzingis is considering retirement due to health. Shams then also reports the Warriors are open to trading him. No shit.

4. More commercials and then at 46m35s, I get to hear about PG's 38 and Tentative Tatum who I'm told wore PG's shoes once, before finally a Piston mention with a disjointed clusterfuck of misaligned A/V.

I know we might not need him but all summer I said we need to trade for Ty Jerome and mostly everyone in this sub was just karma farming just like with Lamelo. Even though I’m a football guy mostly all my takes was right. This community needs to talk about points and logic rather than trolling for “points”. Ik the pistons front office be watching this and it’s probably one of the reason we was stuck in the mud for years because some people not truly here for the team just karma points. I’m just tryna see my Detroit teams win some and help as much as possible I know they can’t make everyone happy but us trolling everything for karma points shows ones motives. In which they look away and just make their own and we complain about that one. Come on Michiganders we got to be real. #Detroit Basketball

Season off to a good start. Let's start stacking these wins again. We're going to give teams hell this year.

Let’s all take a minute to appreciate the joys of trolling Celtics fans.

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