Detroit Pistons: Pros and Cons of trading for Duncan Robinson

The Detroit Pistons will enter this offseason with a load of cap house however may not discover a lot to spend it on.

This free agent class isn’t significantly deep with “transfer the needle” expertise, so if the Pistons strike out on the highest guys, they may need to search for extra artistic methods to make use of their cap house.

That might embody taking flyers on unfulfilled expertise with guys like Marvin Bagley III, including a number of lower-cost veteran upgrades or making a commerce with a group that should clear cap house.

One such group I’ve heard floated round is the Miami Warmth, who’ve a top-heavy payroll with Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, Kyle Lowry and Duncan Robinson in addition to an enormous extension for Tyler Herro looming.

The Warmth could also be trying to reduce payroll to create space for Herro’s extension, and the surprising leap by Max Strus might have made Duncan Robinson out there.

It is sensible, because the Pistons might both ship again a participant like Kelly Olynyk, who would give the Warmth some added cap house and whose last 12 months shouldn’t be assured, or if the Warmth actually needed to clear some room, they might take again a participant like Hamidou Diallo or Frank Jackson, permitting the Pistons to soak up Robinson into their cap house.

The Warmth would solely be making this transfer to chop future cash and keep out of the tax, so this could possibly be one other method for the Pistons to amass expertise utilizing their cap house.

So what would a lineup with Robinson seem like?

Detroit Pistons: Buying and selling for Duncan Robinson

If the Pistons had been to commerce for Duncan Robinson, they might enter subsequent season with this beginning 5:

• Cade Cunningham
• Duncan Robinson
• Saddiq Bey
• Jerami Grant/Draft choose
• Isaiah Stewart

The Pistons would nonetheless have their 2022 1st-round choose, so would nonetheless have choices when it got here to Jerami Grant. In the event that they needed to increase him, this can be a fairly good group, nevertheless it’s positively not a title contender and could be extra financially encumbered.

If the Pistons did commerce Grant, they’d nonetheless have cash left over to make just a few minor free agent additions to associate with Robinson.

The purpose is that it’s not solely doable, however is sensible from Miami’s perspective, however what in regards to the Detroit Pistons? There would positively be professionals and cons to buying and selling for Duncan Robinson.