For the Pistons if there was anything to learn from the Greg Monroe contract situation last year, Stan Van Gundy and the rest of the Detroit front office seemed to have learned something.
That lesson? Don’t mess around with qualifying offers, at least not with your more vital pieces.
Prior to this past season the Pistons entered a stalemate with forward Greg Monroe and his impending contract situation. Ultimately that situation led to a qualifying offer from the Pistons, which Monroe obviously took but then led to the talented forward bolting Detroit for Milwaukee as an unrestricted free agent.