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Durable Drummond still on the ascent as Pistons anchor in the middle

(Editor’s note: Today continues a five-part series on Pistons.com looking at the Pistons at each of the five positions for the 2019-20 season. Today: center. Coming Thursday: power forward.)

For all the talk about the diminishing value of an NBA big man, there is and always will be a place in the game for the likes of Andre Drummond.

Even as the game gets smaller, you’d always take more size at a position in a race between two players of relatively equal talent. The reality of today’s NBA is that defenses need to cover a few hundred more square feet than they did in an era when the 3-point shot was something taken only to beat the shot clock or to spur a comeback in the waning minutes – and, more often than not, that’s a tough ask of 6-foot-10 and up athletes, even the ones good enough to get to the NBA.