SVG was horrible and put us in this mess to begin with. I hate that guy. I will never go back. I know we are awful but there's no point in going 39-43 every year. It's meaningless
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Don't think it was SVG who traded Bullips, signed Ben Gordon, Charlie V, and Josh Smith. And he definitely wasn't the one who added Middleton as throwaway in a trade for Brandon Jennings.
Even if his tenure was mediocre for most of it, he's still responsible for the best record we've had in the last 15 years and making the playoffs that same season with some amount of hope for the future(at the time).
Van Gundy is where the organizational rot started
Back cut, down screen, ice ice
Everyone knows you never fire a Van Gundy. Espn about to learn next
Disney will have to sell ESPN because they didn't keep JVG
Celtics furiously drawing up lifetime contract options for their newest consultant while Dan Shaughnessy cackles gleefully in the background
Dumars cursed this team when he traded Chauncey for Iverson
And it wasn't even his first attempt. Iverson would have been a Piston in 2000 if Matt Geiger hadn't vetoed the deal.
Trading away Chauncey is always a bad idea.
It gave melo one of the two seasons of real pg play he had in his prime and he led them to the WCF and took the kobe lakers to six. The nuggets were the second best team in the league that year IMO, especially how melo was balling out in the playoffs, and they took more games off of and played the lakers much harder than the magic did in the finals.
So I was cool with it
Interesting. I grew in Orlando so the Magic were my first NBA team. Was a lot of fun in the 90s and 00s but I never really saw Doc or SVG as a factor in their success. Thought they both just got lucky with great players.
I mean isn’t it more that, recently anyway, both the pistons and the magic have drafted guys who can’t really shoot, or just haven’t turned out that great
Stan “Tom Riddle” Van Gundy
SVG got handles too
He’s a Diet Pepsi fan. I’d expect nothing less
I mean, the Pistons have only had two 500 or better teams since 2008. Hard to put that blame on one dude who was there for four years.
i miss stan van gundy's rants during interviews about lebron being the goat lol. lebron is definitely top 5 but the order is MJ, Kareem, Magic, Kobe, Lebron.
Seeing SVG draft misses during his tenure...
I don't think SVG even watched tape on Henry Ellenson when he picked him in 2016, based on reports from that time. Just the worst drafter.
Nah for the Magic it was more hiring 30 year old Rob Hennigan to be their GM. He tried, but when put under pressure ruined the team for the past decade.
Our new GM isn't perfect but given what Hennigan did I can admire that he is willing to take his time and let players grow.
Stan was just a young angel going through his demon phase
So the take away here is, never hire SVG.
“Rotund Rap Legend” 😭
I guess that's the curse of firing stan?
Brewin some crazy cursed potion in that diet pepsi can
Riley was right to make him resign instead.
It's because we stunk as organizations during those times, not just personnel but front office decisions too. It's more than a coach leaving
Stop bro the pistons already suck enough, I don't need to be reminded that he ruined the franchise even more with the Blake trade and everything he's done. That and troy weaver not getting any assets for our old players at all.
Fuck bro the pistons have no future, none of the guys develop unlike other teams where they seem to be instant hits
Man where is game of zones when you need that shit
Well... Detroit's had a bad roster.
Orlando Magic GM has been ass for the past 5 years. We have backcourt logjam with all non-shooters.
He left us a dumpster fire of bad decisions he made with us. Literally just now getting to base levels of talent and getting out from under bad contracts. You dont want to know how long josh smith was on the cap sheet after we cut him.
That pic belongs in the Louvre.
Stan “form a fucking wall” gundy