r/DetroitPistons • u/UnbiasedNBAFan_ • 15d ago
[Wojnarowski] ESPN Sources: After one season, the Detroit Pistons have dismissed coach Monty Williams — who leaves with five years and $65M-plus left on his deal. New President Trajan Langdon will move to make his own coaching hire now. News
https://x.com/wojespn/status/1803420205277679799?s=46942
u/Davetron-3030 The Palace Prince 15d ago
This is the second greatest Juneteenth of all time
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u/EatingFurniture 15d ago
Some pistons fans in the south may argue for 1st place!
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u/thomaspatrickmorgan Bill Laimbeer 15d ago
Hell, the north too. Take my word for it and do NOT open the comments on any MLive, News or Freep Juneteenth posts today. Good lord.
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u/MintyFreshBreathYo Hill 15d ago
I live in Traverse City. Every time I check the Facebook posts from our local news I lose a little more faith in humanity
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u/thabigQ 15d ago
Officially all in on the Langdon regime. This was so needed. There would’ve been a stale taste in the back of the mouth all season had we moved forward. As someone who has dogged the shit out of Gores, props to him for eating the money & progressing.
You smell that folks? It’s the smell of genuine optimism.
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u/DelayedNewYorker 15d ago
Praise Gores for this one. Not many owners would do this
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u/comeonmang126 15d ago
Yea he’s real asf for eating that cash but fuck how he earned it
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u/DelayedNewYorker 15d ago
100%. Private equity and prison telephone price gouging is a leech upon society
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u/MrJuanDuck Jaden Ivey 15d ago
this and he made the final call on this disastrous signing anyways. Didn’t earn plus points with me all he did was make a fat mistake and fire the mistake a season later. Mistakes were still made (again)
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u/which_association_42 15d ago
Agree but I think the Monty signing and firing are evidence Gores wants to win. you don’t do either of those if you’re just in this for fame and fortune.
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u/Superorganism123 Cade Cunningham 15d ago
Wanting to win and knowing how to win are 2 different things.
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u/Embarrassed_Ad_7825 Marcus Sasser 15d ago
Yeah but knowing how to win for us should never include monty Williams in retrospect . Happy we can start fresh
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u/MrJuanDuck Jaden Ivey 15d ago
true that, let’s hope langdon is truly in charge of future decisions now. Started off well with Vinson and firing monty for now
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u/itssosalty Dennis Rodman 15d ago
It was generally a well accepted signing when we got Monty. Sure in hindsight…
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u/AWokenBeetle Peton 15d ago
Saw Illitch lacking and decided to Sheila Ford Hamp this shit, well done Tom
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u/FailResorts 15d ago
I can’t help but notice the Lions started turning things around when the women began running things. Old Lady Martha still swung for the fences and missed. She knew the club could do better and made changes to try and push the team to expect more. Sheila was able to finally achieve that dream with Campbell and the current setup.
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u/itssosalty Dennis Rodman 15d ago
Since Mr I died and his jerk off of a son took over, it all went to shit.
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u/marcgarv87 15d ago
Probably means he’ll just up the price of those prison phone calls.
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u/yoyododomofo Rasheed Wallace 15d ago
No this is not worthy of any praise. See this is why we continue to let billionaire leaches ruin so many lives because we somehow thank them for spending what amounts to .9% of his net worth? If you had 100k in the bank (which the vast majority of people in the US do not) would you deserve praise because you paid 1k to repair your neighbors car that you backed into? This is nothing and doesn’t affect the cap like when he had to eat the rest of Blake’s contract cause of another stupid decision. Especially when you stole the 1k from your other neighbor while they were in prison for selling pot.
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u/cammjohn Saddiq Bey 15d ago
Gores is dumb and doesn’t understand basketball, but he’s willing to spend money. Have to respect that. Hopefully with Trajan in there now he feels comfortable leaving all basketball decisions to him
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u/bugab0010 15d ago
It’s the smell of genuine optimism.
I swear we say that every year
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u/YourRealName 15d ago
This sub loves the mystery box of the unknown: future draft picks, cap space, and coaching vacancies are all the idealized versions of what they could be until there’s an actual name attached.
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u/AarunFast 15d ago
The "optimism" is that the billionaire owner fired the one of highest-paid coaches in the NBA after one season, which was also the worst in franchise history? Oh, and we have the 5th pick in a historically bad draft. Things are great!
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u/512fm Bojan Bogdanovic 15d ago
Yep after that last season I’m not getting any hopes up until I see the on court product
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u/bugab0010 15d ago
yeah that's exactly my point. especially after all the "aged like milk" threads from last year that we were reposting earlier this off-season
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u/comeonmang126 15d ago
I’ve never been more of a Langdon believer. This alone has earned him years of goodwill from me
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u/Found_my_username 15d ago
I feel bad for weaver. He never had picked his own coach, now his predecessor will get his in year 1, along with taking the credit for developing all of our lottery talent.
Weaver will be forgotten by most but I’ll never forget the cornerstones he gave us
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u/Relevant_Gold4912 15d ago
All time bag get by Monty. Took gores to the cleaners
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u/scoobydoobepop 15d ago
Seriously this was a heist by Monty
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u/Relevant_Gold4912 15d ago
Had no interest coaching here but you’d be a dummy to turn down 90 mil.
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u/EatingFurniture 15d ago
Hopefully hard for him to get a new job after this shit
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u/DrLee_PHD 15d ago
There's no way he will ever coach again. He's done. No sane team will touch him after this.
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u/Detroittigersfan1029 Peton 15d ago
the thing is most teams would take him as a coach but would Monty even want to coach at this point ? dude has the bag and he didn't really want to coach before he took the Pistons job, he was super wishy washy before he took it
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u/TempoMortigi 15d ago
I 100% guarantee he coaches in the nba again. If he did a horrible job with a good team it would be one thing. I’m not saying he’s a good coach, but he will absolutely get another opportunity.
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u/HarnessedInHopes Marcus Sasser 15d ago
lol people were talking about him going to the Lakers a week ago, he can definitely coach again if he wants to.
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u/kentbenson 15d ago
That’s the point for Monty though. He didn’t want to work. Now he has 90 million and doesn’t want to work.
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u/AWokenBeetle Peton 15d ago
He really did, bro took the money and absolutely sabotaged this season and this team so he could get fired with the bag in tow. Take notes ladies and gentleman
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u/Detroittigersfan1029 Peton 15d ago
ya know....I kind of respect the hustle even though it came at the expense of the fans' sanity
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u/dbinkowski Pistons 15d ago
LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS
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u/ASpartanLeopard Cade Cunningham 15d ago
I WAS GOING TO LOSE MY SHIT IF I HAD TO SIT THROUGH ANOTHER SEASON OF WATCHING THAT IDIOT NEVER CHALLENGE OR CALL TIMEOUTS AND PLAY KILLIAN HAYES OVER IVEY
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u/pressure_limiting 15d ago
Killian Hayes has to be the only player in NBA history to be a starter on a team (not due to extenuating circumstances like COVID lineups) and then be waived and subsequently not be in the league simply based on talent
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u/liam3265 Jalen Duren 15d ago
good guy, not so good coach. i wish him well
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u/Haselrig Bad Boys 15d ago
He took the money knowing he didn't give a shit. There's some dirtbag in there.
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u/512fm Bojan Bogdanovic 15d ago
How? He made it clear he didn’t want to coach and yet that absolute clown Gores just kept throwing money at him until he couldn’t refuse. This whole situation is on Gores.
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u/TylerDog3 Cade Cunningham🥵 13d ago
not a soul on earth would turn down that deal
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u/ObiwanSchrute 15d ago
Got to imagine Borrego would be the favorite
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u/NachoManRandySnckage 15d ago
Which is kinda funny since he was bad as a head coach lol
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u/bowlinginthedark 15d ago
he took a very young lamelo to the play in and then was scapegoated after their best season in 5 years (and they havent sniffed the play in since)
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u/TheBimpo Dennis Rodman 15d ago
Ready for the posts saying what an awesome owner Gores is for being willing to foot such a massive bill and admit to his mistakes.
There's good candidates out there and not many openings, let's go!
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u/Haselrig Bad Boys 15d ago
Scumbag spends money on nothing is a headline that ain't breaking my heart.
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u/draymond_targaryen 15d ago
Trajan got Fred Vinson in a gym with Ivey and Vinson came away saying he could fix him so Monty had to go.
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u/PremierLovaLova 15d ago
When you can get fired and still receive a significant portion of 65 million dollars, knowing that if you want to, another company would hire you: that is the American dream.
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u/PaoloBancheroFan 15d ago
I don't believe that Monty is a bad coach. But I also believe that the Pistons' roster is not that bad to only win 14 games.
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u/MedicalBoardTA 15d ago
Comparing this roster to the horrible 76ers or Charlotte teams, you’d think this team would win 35-40
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u/deuce313 15d ago
Langdon is not fucking around. I hope he becomes like Sheila and turn this team around. Monty never wanted to be here anyway.
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u/NomadicNematode128 Isaiah Livers 15d ago
This is the real reason Dan Hurley turned down the Lakers job.
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u/Sportsfan97__ Cade Cunningham 15d ago
One of the worst coaching performances I’ve seen from any coach in any sport
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u/Murrrtits 15d ago
At least they are letting Trajan have complete control it looks like. Thank god ur gone Monty but good for you bagging 70 million for nothing lmao
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u/marcgarv87 15d ago
This front office is serious. Has a lions rebuild feel to it and I’m all aboard.
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u/AdamSliver Rip Hamilton 15d ago
Idk that I’ve ever been so happy to see someone get fired 😅 what an amazing day. This is a new start for this team with Weaver and Monty gone.
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u/Defacto_Champ 15d ago
Almost makes me sick how much money he’s getting to do nothing. I bust my ass at my job and won’t make more the 15 % of that in my entire job career. I clearly picked the wrong career.
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u/ShippingNotIncluded Ausar Thompson 15d ago
Credit to Gores for not letting the money be the deciding factor here.
This new regime has a legit fresh start
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u/Raticus9 Doumbouya 15d ago
Thought it would either happen earlier or not at all. Pleasantly surprised. Good for Langdon!
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u/keefsaturn Hooper 15d ago
I really thought he was gonna coach this team again.. but thank god we got him out of here 🥹
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u/KingTranquilo 15d ago
Im happy Gores is the only one who loses something from this and not our team’s salary.
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u/Embarrassed_Ad_7825 Marcus Sasser 15d ago
Casuals really think detroit didn’t give him a chance 🤣 Monty didn’t even fucking TRY!!!!!
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u/QuickKillings 15d ago
I think Monty would be a good coach with a vet roster built. The way he is with young guys he cant do a rebuild.
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u/PizzaTastesGoodToMe 15d ago
Damn! Can we get Mike D’Antoni? He needs to coach Jaden Ivey. Or Adrian Griffin.
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u/LevelDosNPC 15d ago
Hawks fan, here. Why did they wait so long into the offseason to fire him?
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u/ObiwanSchrute 15d ago
Guessing Trajan is building his staff talking to everyone he still hasn't even had an introductory press conference yet
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u/cindad83 15d ago
Imagine if for Trajan Langdon evaluation of Monty he asked him to breakdown several different playoff series and possible adjustments, etc...
And he bombed on enough of them he just said thanks for your service.
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u/gurknowitzki Rasheed Wallace 15d ago
Fuck man, hope this doesn’t set us back like the Josh Smith situation.
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u/PrettyBigMatzahBall 15d ago
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but I actually just gained some respect for Tom Gores
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u/funguy6019 15d ago
I’m available for half of Monty’s salary haha. Great move, new sheriff is in town. 💪
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u/aTROLLwithBlades 15d ago
Eh he was setup for failure. Didn't hate him. I do think he made mistakes though
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u/DiligentAsshole 15d ago
Wow...big move, and the right one. Williams was NOT the coach the Pistons needed.
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