(Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr., The Detroit News)
The Pistons finished July with a good run in Summer League and some tweaks to the roster. They made some shrewd moves but most of the excitement was lost in the whirlwind of bigger trades and additions around the league in free agency.
On paper, the Pistons got better, with Derrick Rose and Tim Frazier as backup point guards, Tony Snell on the wing and Markieff Morris at power forward and Christian Wood as a backup center.
Still, without a significant improvement — as Russell Westbrook or Chris Paul might have been — the Pistons still look to be mired among the ranks of the fringe playoff teams in the East and many projections have them as the seventh or eighth seed, at best.