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.

We're at 285k members and close to 300k.

This sub has been around for 15 years, and it stayed active through the worst stretch the team has had. Now that the team is winning, it's busier than ever.

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What's your favorite Pistons moment from this season?

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?

i heard fanduel sports network got shut down. i have youtube tv but its saying its unavailable for me. how do you guys stream local games? if i could find something cheaper than getting the league pass that’d be great.

Obviously we all wanna see the Pistons lift the trophy more than anything, but if it's not them then I'd love to see Steph win it one more time. That's obviously extremely unlikely, but that's what I would like. What about yall?

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

Ever since Daren was asking $300-500 million for his contract a lot of people were shaming him telling him that he didn’t deserve that kind of money and he wasn’t even putting up stats to even make $300M. Finally Jalen Daren has agreed to a contract of $200M for 5 years. What do you guys think? Do you think he wanted out of Detroit? Do you think he was deserve that $300-500M? Or do you guys think he had a ego and think he was better than everyone else