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Practice minutes will set Pistons rotation and final roster spot, Van Gundy says

The only real roster question for the Pistons is whether it’s Lorenzo Brown or Ray McCallum Jr. for the 15th and final spot. The starting five returns intact. Stan Van Gundy landed the two key pieces he needed for his bench in the first 48 hours of free agency.

That’s another way of saying there isn’t exactly a laundry list of questions to be addressed between Tuesday’s launch of training camp and the Oct. 26 season opener at Toronto.

But Van Gundy feels an urgency to maximize every minute of practice time available, not least because he knows for the Pistons to reach their goals – encapsulated neatly in their team mantra of “why not us?