The Pistons, a team that played 37-year-old point guard José Calderón in 49 games and a total of 632 minutes, were in desperate need of better guard play off the bench after last season. Insert Tim Frazier, the guard from Penn State who has proven in his five year NBA career that he is capable…
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Derrick Rose is a Successful Coup for the Detroit Pistons
Let it be known that the Detroit Pistons have become the new hub for reviving injury-riddled NBA superstars. Well, at least this is the narrative Pistons’ fans are hoping for at the conclusion of next season. Joining Blake Griffin in pushing for this narrative to become a reality is Derrick Rose. The youngest-ever league MVP…
Reports: Ish Smith to Sign with Wizards, Wayne Ellington Agrees to Deal with New York
A pair of key free agents for the Detroit Pistons have signed away in the first day of free agency. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, Smith has agreed to sign a two-year deal worth $12 million with the Washington Wizards. Free agent guard Ish Smith has agreed to a two-year, $12M deal with…
Podcast: Previewing Free Agency & Summer League for the Detroit Pistons
Brendan Johnson, Aaron Johnson, and Ryan Paye are back this week with a full preview of the 2019 NBA Free Agency period for the Detroit Pistons. They dive into the free agents the Pistons will have such as Ish Smith and Wayne Ellington, while looking at free agents Detroit could sign like Derrick Rose, Isaiah…
2018-19 Season Review: Ish Smith, Detroit’s Jitterbug Off The Bench
The 2018-19 campaign was one full of ups and downs for the Detroit Pistons’ backup point guard Ish Smith. However, one thing is for certain: the man likes to push the ball on offense and get his teammates involved. The Pistons finished their 82-game regular season with a .500 record of 41-41, however, Smith would…
Pistons Should be All In on Dennis Smith Jr
Sometimes you have to take a swing. The Detroit Pistons are 18-24, 10th place in a bad Eastern Conference. They have big money allocated out to Blake Griffin, Andre Drummond, and Reggie Jackson. By gurus around the league, Detroit was widely projected to make the playoffs before the season began. But, now past the mid-way…
Ish Smith’s Return will Help Pistons, But Won’t Solve All Issues
To say the Detroit Pistons are struggling would be a kind understatement. In their last 19 games, they have gone a brutal 4-15. In that stretch, they have beaten just one current playoff team, the Boston Celtics. Performance across the roster has been sporadic outside of Blake Griffin. While he has led the charge on…
2018-2019 POP Season Preview: Ish Smith is a Model of Consistency for Detroit
Although Detroit has not fared well with Reggie Jackson out of the lineup the past few seasons, it is not because the player who filled Jackson’s void in the starting lineup, Ish Smith. In fact, Ish Smith has played the best basketball of his career in his past two seasons with Detroit. But behind Smith,…
The Ish Smith Problem.
Reggie Jackson has been cleared for light activities which put him (hopefully) a week or two away from a return. How important is his return though? The biggest improvement will be that he will not, in fact, be Ish Smith. Here’s why that is so important. To start off with I want to make something…
2017-2018 Season Preview: Ish Smith
When initially acquired from the Philadelphia 76ers in the summer of 2016, Ishmael ‘Ish’ Smith was seen as a prototypical backup point guard for Reggie Jackson and the Detroit Pistons. Since entering the NBA as an undrafted free agent in 2010 out of Wake Forest, Smith has bounced around between 10 different franchises but has…
Palace of Pistons 