The Detroit Pistons: 15 Years of Failure

The Detroit Pistons, once a respected Franchise known for success within the NBA owning 3 Championships and beating some of the best players of All-Time to get them, and at one point going to 6 straight conference Finals appearances in the 2000s decade. The Current State of Detroit Basketball is nowhere near that and it has been like that for a LONG TIME. And as the Detroit Pistons start the NBA Season 2-25 and about to break the longest losing streak in NBA History. The Entire NBA Community is now taking notice that the Detroit Pistons have been on a consistent downward spiral ever since the remnants of the 2000 Pistons championship squad all got older and left for greener pastures. Since the 2008-09 season the Pistons have only been to the playoffs twice and won 0 games in those two series, have produced 2 All Stars, went through 7 Head Coaches, and the best record they could produce from this 15 year period, was a 41-41 season. In this video we will go over every misstep the Detroit Pistons have made since their Championship Days and see just how they tried to fix it, while failing at EVERY, STEP, OF, THE, WAY! Whether that is relying on a older Allen Iverson, Paying Josh Smith to save the Franchise, doing the same years later with Blake Griffin, or the many draft mistakes they've made.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00:01:42 Intro
00:01:42 - 00:09:17 2009 Season The Beginning of the End
00:09:17 - 00:15:10 2010 Season Joe Dumars makes a mistake
00:15:00 - 00:20:05 2011 Season The Pistons won't tank
00:20:05 - 00:24:51 2012 Season Frank Lawrence joins the Pistons
00:24:51 - 00:30:19 2013 Season Andre Drummond Comes to Town
00:30:19 - 00:38:45 2014 Season Josh Smith Joins the Pistons
00:38:45 - 00:44:55 2015 Season Stan Van Gundy Has a Plan
00:44:55 - 00:53:00 2016 Season The Pistons return to the Playoffs
00:53:00 - 00:56:57 2017 Season Stagnation from the Core
00:56:57 - 01:08:38 2018 Season The Blake Griffin Gamble
01:08:38 - 01:15:58 2019 Season Blake Griffin Saves the Pistons
01:15:58 - 01:22:34 2020 Season The Blake Griffin Gamble falls apart
01:22:34 - 01:30:08 2021 Season The Pistons Clean House
01:30:09 - 01:36:52 2022 Season The Pistons get Cade Cunningham
01:36:52 - 01:48:32 2023 Season Troy Weaver makes some moves
01:48:52 - 01:51:20 2024 Season How Can it Get Any Worse

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[levelupreports]

I live in Metro Detroit and have my entire life. I’m convinced that this year we made a blood sacrifice of the Pistons in order to make the Lions contenders

[GBsavant]

Brandon Jennings was progressing in Detroit. He was picking up his play all around until the career ending injury. He deserves more credit and that injury was bigger than people acknowledge

[crisfantom]

As a pistons fan, let me be very clear and stating that you’re 1 hour and 51 minutes of this deep dive meant more to me than we can be explained. It brought me back to all the years of errors they got us exactly to where we are today. Thank you for the painstaking detail that you put into this video. All the hours that you put into creating this was absolutely worth it. I don’t even log into my YouTube account because I hate the suggestions! But I wanted to login to thank you for what you did here. very dope! One-of-a-kind! Keep up the great work bro.

[PeterEBI]

having Josh smith, Andre Drummond and Greg Monroe in the same starting lineup is a great lineup if you hate the concept of spacing

[redluke]

My very first game I saw live when I moved to this country was pistons vs Utah Jazz just before stockton and malone parted ways and malone went to LA. I'll never forget that game 7 against San antonio the pistons really could of had multiple chips. Such a legendary run the pistons had.

[Romeo-qktk]

Incredible to see so much franchise depth in one production! Well done! 🔥🏀

[cjvaye]

been waiting for this one. it's incredible how the same organization that built a power house in the eastern conference in the early 2000s that won a championship, made two finals and pretty much made at least the conference finals all those years, that same organization has been this horrendous for the past 15 years. how does that even happen lol

[billblaski]

That's crazy now that i think about, that trade of Billups-Iverson was really the catalyst for the Pistons downfall. Ever since the trade, the Pistons have never regained there elite status

[mantisshrimp]

The Austin Daye draft was a bad spot. One note, I totally forgot about Kuester as a coach. The reason he benched those 7 players wasn't because they were late. It's because they were intentionally missing shootaround as a protest against him as coach. The shocking thing is it was the veterans on the team who organized it. you'd think it would be the young guys. But guys like Rip and Tayshaun doing it was definitely not a good look for anyone.

[DwayneIsKNG]

As a Bulls fan, I remember those Rip Hamilton days so damn fondly 😭. Especially in 2k 😂

[Joey_chi-sports]

2015-16 Season was actually their best going 44-38

[Wreagann]

I think the craziest thing in this video is Allen Iverson’s $19 million contract being the 3rd highest in the league.

[DemikBeLike]

I love the punchline "it gives somebody else room to grow" 😅

[VMAGTV]

Incredibly in-depth look into over a decade of this franchise's history. Very well put together.

[colinryan]

This video is great man, as a person who just recently got into the nba im learning a lot of the recent history i missed

[TheRb]

I truly respect the great work done on this video, but as a Pistons fan it's sad ASF 😫....

[jamespuso]

The Jennings for Knight and Middleton trade really goes to show how long it takes to build a championship team that's gonna compete for a while

[Joshavelli__]

I'm not gonna lie back in the day when I was a kid although im not Pistons fan I did enjoy watching the Pistons in the playoffs (when Ben Wallace, Chauncey Billups, Richard Hamilton were on the team). And after all that the Pistons have never been the same. This was a great video Alvini and hope you have a great merry Christmas bro (ik it's early) 💯🔥

[cadecrusader]

It’s been the curse of my Pistons trading away Chauncey Billups in 2008 that killed the franchise from being respectable contenders to a complete joke for a decade plus.