The hard questions don’t have easy answers. The easy questions aren’t worth asking at this point.
And the age-old question Pistons fans are left to ponder today — “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” — really is a loaded one.
Yeah, so?
That’d be the natural response, given where this franchise was and where its headed now that Stan Van Gundy is out as team president and head coach.
That long-simmering decision came as no surprise, really. The writing has been on the wall for weeks, if not months. And while it wasn’t terribly petty in the end — owner Tom Gores had plenty of praise for Van Gundy in Monday’s press release — this certainly isn’t pretty, either.