You have 2024’s basketball knowledge about players. For this exercise say it’s at the beginning of the 2019 NBA draft. You have the sole decision making power on the team.
How confident are you to make the Pistons the 2024 NBA Champion? How would you do it?
Sign me as gm for one year and I’ll make them champs
Not gonna say how, since there would be no reason to hire me then
- Use my knowledge of time travel and have Tom Gores invest into time travel technology to bring Rose and Griffin back into their primes. 2.Sign Guru from the planet Namek to unlock Thon Maker’s true potential.
- Hire Bill Laimbeer as head coach. He’s going to teach the team that if we take out the teams best players, we’ve got a shot every night.
- Capture the guy in Wuhan and threaten the league that we’ll let Covid happen if they don’t rig every game.
- Championship secured by 2020.
If you give me 2018 maybe
Trade for all of the lower value guys. They might take a lot, but with the number one overall pick you have plenty of amo.
Gets sga, dort, Lauri, Chris Paul, hart, Caruso, the Wagner bros, Jalen Williams, Harenstein, bruson if you want, maybe trade and flip to try and get one of the high draft picks, sengun, Naz Reid.
You could probably flip some players like Westbrook for the Lakers Westbrook trade. Or Kelly olynic in free agency could probably get a first rounder somewhere.
In 2019 at the beginning of the season could you trade a bunch of picks and get Jokic or Luka? You would think not but worth a call.