What will the Pistons do with the Number One pick in the 2021 draft?

[MotownWebGuy]

What do you think the Pistons will do with the number one pick?  Will they keep it and draft someone (if so, who will they take), or will they trade it for additional assests?

[RedRamage]

My bet is on them drafting Cade Cunningham.

[MotownWebGuy]

On 8/1/2021 at 2:26 PM, RedRamage said:

My bet is on them drafting Cade Cunningham.

I'm with you on that one! 

I wonder if at any point there was serious consideration to trade the pick, or was Cade the choice all along, assuming no red flags were found.

[djhutch]

On 8/4/2021 at 1:47 PM, MotownWebGuy said:

I'm with you on that one! 

I wonder if at any point there was serious consideration to trade the pick, or was Cade the choice all along, assuming no red flags were found.

I take Troy Weaver to be the kind of guy who will kick the tires on a few ideas before settling on one.  I'd be surprised if it was "This is our guy" all along.  You never know what someone will offer up. That said, I think they made the right move.

[casimir]

4 hours ago, djhutch said:

I take Troy Weaver to be the kind of guy who will kick the tires on a few ideas before settling on one.  I'd be surprised if it was "This is our guy" all along.  You never know what someone will offer up. That said, I think they made the right move.

That’s my impression as well.  Probably just doing his due diligence and all that should be done with a #1 draft pick.

[RandyMarsh]

Speaking of Cade I find it funny how quickly the narrative changes after we get him. All year all we heard was how he was a borderline generational talent and at the very least one of the top 3 or 4 guys to come into the NBA the past 10 years. Now all the sudden of no fault of his own he has turned into just another early draft pick.

Case and point on ESPN the other day they actually asked who would you take between Cade and Anthony Edwards and one of the talking heads picked Edwards. A year ago people said Edwards was one of the weaker number 1 picks in recent memory, then he goes out and has a so so rookie season and now people are picking him over the "cant miss prospect" in Cade? What changed people's perception other than him becoming a Piston?

Edited September 22, 2021 by RandyMarsh

[pfife]

Lol