NBA Free Agency 2018: 5 offseason targets for the Detroit Pistons

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5. Dwane Casey

First and foremost, the Pistons need a head coach. Having no head coach sounds like a cool idea, but then the blame will fall on the players. The players don’t want that. You think DeMar DeRozan wants to be blamed for the playoff failures of the Raptors? Of course not. That’s what Dwane Casey is for.

Dwane Casey is a good coach. He completely revamped the Raptors system and led them to the first seed in the East this past season. He orchestrated the best bench in the league. He did everything he could get to the Raptors over the hump. It didn’t matter because, LeBron, but that shouldn’t deter the Pistons from hiring him. If they spend their whole life afraid of LeBron, they may as well shut down their operation for the next five to eight years. Or convince him to sign out West.

Here are the pros for signing Casey: he’s available, he turned Jonas Valanciunas into a useful player so imagine what he could do with Drummond, he’s used to coaching players with no playoff success, Ish Smith would win Sixth Man of the Year, he is not Jason Kidd, Matt Rutkowski approves.

The cons: is a known associate of Drake, spells his name in a funny way, might not be able to convince Reggie Jackson that he’s not Russell Westbrook, has never encouraged a team to “build a wall” as a defensive scheme, has two first names.

By using jellybeans to weigh the pros and cons, the answer is obvious. The Pistons need Casey.

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