After five years at the head of the Pistons, on the sidelines, Dwane Casey felt it was time to change hats. The coaching veteran, who started his coaching career as an assistant at his college in Kentucky (in 1979), will stay in Detroit, but in the “front office”.
At 65, Casey is certainly beginning to feel the fatigue of a career almost half a century long… and a certain discrepancy with the new generations arriving in the Great League.
“I told the guys it was my last game”Casey explained to yahoo. “I’m going to join the director’s office. We are going to have an official meeting at the end of the week. [pour l’annoncer] but they were forty-four fine years. Tom offered me the opportunity to move into the front office. I talked about it with Troy [Weaver, le GM], and I look forward to working with him and preparing for the next stage of my career. It’s time for me to be more with my family. It is the right time. »
Recruited by Tom Gores, the owner of the Pistons during the summer of 2018, after being sacked from the Raptors just after winning the trophy for best coach in the League, Casey will have managed to bring the Pistons to the playoffs in 2019 (for a short tour and then leaves).
Udoka, Kalamian or Stackhouse to succeed him?
But, after a season wrapped up at just 17 wins, and a floor-to-ceiling rebuilding movement that’s being thrown around Cade Cunningham, plus Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren (even bets James Wiseman and Marvin Bagley III), the Pistons needed with a new voice in the locker room.
“It’s completely my decision. Tom gave me this opportunity and I appreciate being able to make this decision as I wanted. Few coaches have this option, but now I can’t wait to open this next chapter. »
On the market, Ime Udoka is already tipped as a serious candidate to succeed Casey. Unless the Pistons favor an internal track with assistant Rex Kalamian, or the former local All Star, Jerry Stackhouse who is still making his mark in the NCAA (at Vanderbilt)…
“I hope our fans will see and appreciate the evolution of the team”, Casey concludes. “Troy has done a good job of bringing in some good guys, to help keep the locker room together for the past two seasons. We haven’t seen our players in the news section or anything. He brought in guys with character and he worked well to form a dressing room that lives well and can progress in the future. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Bojan Bogdanovic | 59 | 32.1 | 48.8 | 41.1 | 88.4 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 21.6 |
| Cade Cunningham | 12 | 33.4 | 41.5 | 27.9 | 83.7 | 1.0 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 19.9 |
| Jaden Ivey | 73 | 31.1 | 41.7 | 34.4 | 74.7 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 5.3 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 3.2 | 16.3 |
| Saddiq Bey | 52 | 28.8 | 40.4 | 34.5 | 86.1 | 1.1 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 14.8 |
| Alec Burks | 51 | 22.0 | 43.6 | 41.4 | 81.4 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 12.8 |
| James Wiseman | 23 | 25.2 | 53.4 | 16.7 | 70.9 | 2.1 | 5.8 | 7.9 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 12.8 |
| Marvin Bagley III | 41 | 23.7 | 53.2 | 27.4 | 75.0 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 6.4 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 12.0 |
| Isaiah Stewart II | 50 | 28.3 | 44.2 | 32.7 | 73.8 | 2.3 | 5.8 | 8.1 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 11.3 |
| Killian Hayes | 75 | 28.2 | 37.5 | 27.7 | 81.7 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 6.2 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 10.1 |
| Eugene Omoruyi | 17 | 21.9 | 42.5 | 29.3 | 72.3 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 9.7 |
| Hamidou Diallo | 56 | 17.8 | 57.3 | 23.8 | 58.8 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 9.3 |
| Jalen Duren | 66 | 24.8 | 65.1 | 0.0 | 61.1 | 3.4 | 5.3 | 8.7 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 9.2 |
| Rj Hampton | 20 | 19.3 | 42.3 | 36.5 | 66.7 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 7.7 |
| Cory Joseph | 61 | 19.5 | 43.4 | 39.9 | 80.3 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 6.9 |
| Isaiah Livers | 52 | 23.0 | 41.7 | 36.5 | 82.1 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 6.7 |
| Rodney McGruder | 32 | 16.4 | 40.8 | 42.3 | 81.8 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 5.7 |
| Kevin Knox | 42 | 14.1 | 46.9 | 37.1 | 78.8 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 5.6 |
| Jared Rhoden | 13 | 12.5 | 38.9 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 2.9 |
| Nerlens Noel | 14 | 10.8 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 70.0 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 2.3 |
| Stanley Umude | 1 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Buddy Boeheim | 9 | 8.9 | 20.8 | 18.2 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.8 |
| Braxton Key | 3 | 3.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 |
