Detroit Pistons: 200-1

Contemplate the Detroit Pistons if you’re searching for an Eastern Conference team that might make a significant leap up the standings.
Although Detroit yields the great majority of a roster that won only 29 games per year ago (plus Jodie Meeks, D.J. Augustin and Caron Butler), Stan Van Gundy’s arrival as controlling officer will include structure and discipline.
We understand SVG wins where he goes and he sees a way to succeed by matching playing style to personnel. If anyone can sort out backcourt ineptitude and the frontcourt jumble in Detroit, it is him.
That is not to say there won’t be significant hurdles, based on Zach Lowe of Grantland.com:”Stan Van Gundy is a top-five coach. This group will probably be frisky, but the Brandon Jennings–Josh Smith mix –even when they play fewer minutes together–has reached’do not hope until you see them perform great basketball things standing.'”
Smith and Jennings are dangerous commodities . Both can take on their staff out of games if not handled. For the Pistons to make noise, Van Gundy might need to rein both in while also getting more from the rest of the roster–Greg Monroe and Andre Drummond that is man-child in particular.
If Drummond gives Van Gundy a passable Dwight Howard impersonation (circa 2009), this team will be in company. And by company, I mean somewhere at or slightly above .500.
Let’s not get too crazy.

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