Detroit Pistons: 5 takeaways from their chaotic and bizarre offseason

The Detroit Pistons started off with so much promise in the draft, but their offseason has gone off the rails since then.

The Detroit Pistons have had an offseason in two chapters so far. They started off with a surprising splash that should have been a warning of things to come when they traded Bruce Brown to the Brooklyn Nets for Dzanan Musa in what was a clear talent downgrade, and for a player who was slightly more expensive.

The implication was that nobody was safe on this roster, which is certainly true. But there was also a lingering concern that the moves to come might be less logical than expected. New general manager Troy Weaver and his newly-hired vice president of basketball strategy David Mincberg had no track record together, so certainly the plan was hard to divine from the outside looking in.

After that, the Pistons acquired the 16th overall pick in the draft from the Houston Rockets, and then they traded Luke Kennard and a host of second-round picks to the LA Clippers for the 19th overall pick. Shortly thereafter they acquired the 38th overall pick and Utah Jazz center Tony Bradley, and it seemed like the plan was to take advantage of a draft with a lot of question marks by getting as many bites of the apple as possible in the hopes that one of these players pans out in a big way.

That was chapter one, and that’s where we’re going to start our evaluation of the chaotic offseason the Detroit Pistons have brought upon themselves so far.