 What's the word, y'all? Trey Weaver did it again, man. And I'm excited about Detroit Pistons basketball for the first time in a minute. That's not true. I was excited when they drafted Kate. But I mean, like, this is like from a team aspect. More than just one singular player, the Detroit Pistons are about to be sneaky decent. See, I say decent because I can't really know. There's still a super young roster even with the recent trade, but there's a lot of things on this roster that makes me excited. So a couple of days ago, I woke up to two huge notifications on my phone. The first one was E-Mai Yudoka getting suspended for a season and the second was Bo-Yah Bangdanovich getting traded to the Pistons. Something nobody saw coming except for Troy Weaver himself. This man, Danny Angel, always talking like he has to win every single trade objectively lost. I mean, they say it's because they didn't want to take on more than one year of salary, but the fact that they got zero picks in this trade is crazy. You got Kelly Olenek, who in Utah might be kind of nice considering. I thought that the Miami Heat, the Phoenix Sun. There are a lot of teams. Miami Heat, Phoenix Sun, 76ers. These are teams that I thought really, really could have used Bo-Yah Bangdanovich and there's probably like five of them I thought he would potentially go to and Detroit wasn't on that list. Let's take a step back. Can I get one minute to rant about the first piece of news I saw on my phone? Like I said, it was the E-Mai Yudoka stuff. I'm amazed at how low NBA media has got. The original report came out that he had a whatever with someone within the organization and we had people on Twitter going to look up the female staffers of the Boston Celtics and tweeting out pictures of them knowing nothing about who was involved in anything. So now these people and their family are going viral on Twitter when they're just employees of the system and have nothing to do with the controversy. That's my rant. Be better, be better. Anyway, yeah, Trey Reaver in that. That resume is looking pretty good and that is one miss. I would say miss right now. This is a make and break season for Killing Hays. I think everybody that has watched basketball understands that. He has not been good and he was drafted with seventh, eighth overall. And I was just looking at people drafted after him. There's one guy that I think would have fit perfectly. But again, if you don't draft Killing Hays and there's this butterfly effect, you end up okay, kind of him with the first overall pig. Yada, yada, yada. This off season I thought was really good. The Detroit Pistons look extremely at the bare minimum fun. At the end of last season in a video it was just thrown in somewhere. I said, hey, out of the teams that are towards the bottom of the standings, I think that the Orlando Magic has the best potential to jump up as far as total wins go. And I still do really love the Orlando Magic. Don't get me wrong, especially with Palo there. But Detroit Bay moves this off season that made me think they can look a lot better this year. I think the over under for them was 27 and a half last time I checked. Now that was before the bouillon trade. So it might have been moved a little bit. So they won 23 last season. That's what K missed in about 20 games. And then Jeremy Grant, who was their best player only play like 47. If the line is to let 27 and a half, I feel pretty good. Obviously Jeremy's all the way out West right now but still I think that they replaced Jeremy Grant pretty solidly. I was thinking about doing a video about the 2021 NBA draft class. And I might still do this video, but I started video so often for this channel and decided to scrap them where I watched one random game of every single player drafted. And I did this for K-Con and then of course being the first overall pick and I put his total number of games. I don't remember how many it was into the random number generator and I landed on his career high game which is crazy against the Denver Nuggets. And boy, oh boy. Boy, oh boy. Like of course I've watched K the season but that game was not in the back of my mind. He was on a whole nother level. And if you look at his numbers for the second half of the season or the last couple months of the season where he really found his footing he's about to be crazy in year number two. Of course these players are not the same or in play styles are different but I kinda look at the way Lamello Ball looked in his rookie season and how he came back in year number two and made an all-star game. And I'm thinking to myself why can't K Cunningham do the same? Cause I'm assuming his overall production is about to go up because he's got more weapons around him. The spacing on the roster that he played with last season was terrible. They were one of the worst three-point shooting teams in all the basketball last year. What did they do this off season? This is why I like Trey Weaver. This off season he decided to get some veterans on the team which is dope. I don't really love teams that go young where everybody's young where the oldest player is a 26 year old and he trying to teach people about the league. So he got some vets within the organization and those vets are shooters. Alec Berks has been really good for the New York Knicks over the last couple of seasons and I think he shot like 38, 39% from three last year. Bojan Bogdanovich has been and basically 40% three-point shooter since he came into the league. They got him on the team now. And if you look at their projected starting lineup and I say projected cause you know things can change throughout training camp and stuff. It's Kate of course. I've read some things where like the shooting guard position is still up in the air. I know it's easy for me and you to look at them drafting Jaden Ivey and say automatically these two guys, Kate Cunningham and Jaden Ivey are going to be starting together. But I read something on the athletic and I'm pretty sure it's about James Edwards III where he was saying that he thinks that the Detroit Pistons might look to add Alec Berks to that starting lineup south of season and see how that looks. And again, for space and purposes don't really hate the idea. Listen, Jaden Ivey is going to be fine if he's coming off the vents for the first 20 or so games he's getting his foot under him. Like he will be a starter in this league. You don't have to immediately come in and jump into that spot unless you legitimately earn it. And if you've been around the channel for some time you know I love the idea of no matter where a person is drafted I'm not immediately giving him the keys to the organization you still have to work for. So if Alec Berks has a better training camp start Alec Berks, may Jaden Ivey come in and work his way into that starting lineup. I don't know if that's going to be the case but either way, I like both options. And then you guys to Dig Band 3 don't forget he put up a 50 piece earlier this season. He took a step back this year when it came to his efficiency and the games that I would just watch like the K. Cunningham career high some illivized shots in there. And you would expect we're having more weapons around him. He won't be looked at to be more of a shock creator cause I don't know if that's really in his games just yet. Bojak Bogdanovich been a pro. You are, you understand that. And then you guys is Stuart which is interesting because he plays summer league this season and I watched a couple of those games of summer league. I was legitimately in the Thomas and Max Center and I think the first shot he took in that first summer league game he had like all backboard on the three and the crowd was like, ooh. And then the second shot he took was like a great release, bruh. Splash. And I guess he did some shooting in some of his previous stops at Washington or high school, but when he got to the Detroit Pistons they needed him to be a real center. So it became a real center. And now there's some people on the roster that's like maybe we need Isaiah Stewart to shoot the ball a little bit more from the perimeter cause he extended Marvin Bagley and then they brought in Jalen Durand which I completely forgot about until this exact second. Oh my God, what a great trade that was. And with Killian Hayes, bro, I don't even know what to expect. Like I was on the hype train too. I don't watch any college ball. I don't watch any international ball. So like when the draft came around I didn't know much about Killian Hayes other than the things that I've read or other than the things that I've heard in podcasts. And I was listening to Kevin O'Connor return and he had me on the hype train. Kevin O'Connor made me think that Killian Hayes was the perfect pick. He ain't done nothing. He's done nothing. You know what I'm saying? So this is a make or break season for him. They also signed Kevin Knox. Guess a make or break season and a half to season for Kevin Knox because Bro ain't really been on nothing. Came to the league as a shooter and last year I think it shot 27% from three. So there are still a few projects and people to worry about, I guess, but overall I think they're about to see some super competent basketball. And a lot of that is at the helm with Kay Cunningham taking the next step. They also got Isaiah Livers. And I like Isaiah Livers' game. I think it's gonna be a real rotational piece this season. And I don't know what to expect, but like, that guy can who? Kay with spacing can be a different monster. And that's the way I'm looking at this roster. Kay with spacing can be a different monster. I like how Trey Weaver saw what they lacked last season, which is spacing for their star player and went out to get some of that without really dedicating a ton of their cap for the next couple of seasons. Cause if I'm not mistaken, Alec Burch's contract is up after this year. Bojan Bogdanovich is a one-year rental. Neurology Noel is making a small amount of money and is not under contract for a long time. So they made some trades to get future assets because they got more assets in the Jeremy Grant trade. I think it's a Milwaukee Bugs pick for 2025. So maybe not a huge asset, but they got more assets and they got cheap and expiring deals to help them for the right now. Because if Kay Cunningham is as good as a lot of us think he is and Jaden Ivy is as good as a lot of us think he can be, I feel okay with everything else falling into place. Yeah, maybe I would want one of my front court players to be like a super duper core untouchable piece. I don't think Isaiah Stewart is that right now. Maybe Jalen Durand becomes that. Kimmel Walker is technically selling the roster. I'm sure he'll get bought out, but like training camp isn't like a day, ain't it, or media day or something? Like, what's going on with that? What if Kimmel Walker actually stays? Kill him. Go fight against Kimmel Walker for an actual rotation spot. I don't know. Kimmel Walker, guess what he can do? He can shoot. That's more spacing. You know what I'm saying? We just had Cory Jo playing a ton of minutes with Kay Cunningham. Who's better? No, no, no, tell me, who's better? At this point, I really don't know. That's it. If you only care about basketball, this is the cue that you can get out of here. But for the rest of y'all, I want to apologize for the lack of uploads throughout the off season. I know we did a ton during free agency and stuff like that. Sometimes as a YouTuber you get to bog down with the algorithm and growth and things like that. And I think it can be healthy to an extent, this channel became unhealthy where I will have ideas of videos and I'll be like, nah, that's not gonna hit the recommended page. When in reality, I'm at the point where I shouldn't care. Let's just talk some hoops. So my apologies, we're gonna be better. Leaving a like does help though. I'm just saying. I'm just saying it helps me get there. Just even if the video is not really made to hit the recommended section, if you left a like, I'm just saying it hires the chances, but it's up to you.