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Detroit Pistons: 5 goals for the 2018 offseason

By Matthew Hallett

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3. Strengthen the shooting guard position

Last summer the Detroit Pistons parted ways with the troubled but talented shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. He chose to play with the Los Angeles Lakers after the Pistons renounced their rights to him.

In July of 2017, Detroit traded Marcus Morris to the Boston Celtics for Avery Bradley, who proved to be quite serviceable for the first half of the season. He averaged 15.0 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.2 steals per game.

He was then traded to the Pistons with Harris for Griffin. This meant the starting shooting guard position was shared between Luke Kennard, Langston Galloway, Reggie Bullock, James Ennis and Stanley Johnson for the rest of the season.

This is never going to be a successful formula, especially as most of them do not have the talent to be starters in this league. Luke Kennard is the exception to this rule, as he is a rookie and has yet to show his true potential.

As the Pistons do not have a pick in the first round of the draft, they will have to trade an asset or hope they can pick up a free agent at the veteran minimum to fill this hole.

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