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[@skeet88]

Monty made 98 million in 2 years he’s good 😂

[@crazcray]

nba heist job

[@BrandonRuffin-tj1fs]

It’s not his fault they have no talent

[@donnymfdogg]

@@BrandonRuffin-tj1fscade cunningham, jaden ivey, jalen duren, ausar Thompson… thats 4 guys with high upside. The pistons lack direction, coaching, and identity. Not to mention players probably don’t care about playing in detroit either way lmfaoo

[@lukewenberg4271]

Rebuilding is so WEIRD in the NBA... "yeah lets rebuild! Fire their first year coach there.." wtf?

[@notqt1367]

The coach always go before the players

[@itztokeyo]

He didn't wanna be there. He was starting Hayes over ivey and livers over Thompson. They had to cut Hayes and trade livers for him to even play them right. Good riddance.

[@garfieldarbackle3363]

HE STARTED KILLIAN HAYES OVER JADEN IVEY, HOW THE FUCK WILL THAT HELP WITH THEIR REBUILD????

[@eternalgamers10]

He literally said he was only there for the money, look it up it came out of the horses mouth. So I don't blame them for cleaning house.

[@MvC93_chilling]

How long has that team been rebuilding? Rebuilding? LOL

[@pauljoseph3081]

Monty has $65 Million reasons not to be sad ngl

[@aznpikachu215]

Monty's problem is he develops odd grudges against players. He did it in PHX with Ayton and then in Detroit with Ivey. He held Ivey to standards he did not do with other players and kept him on such a tight leash I think it affected his confidence. In his defense he did not want to coach last year but Gores kept throwing more money at him with a godfather offer. Unfortunately, it showed when he obviously did no homework on his team and started Hayes half the year, a guy who can't even get an NBA job now.

[@brianking7757]

Exactly 💯

[@BoccaBeats]

At this rate they will be rebuilding until 2030 lmao

[@Impereaux]

…at least.

[@pablodelarosa4314]

detroit needs a develomental coach, like Kenny Atkinson or Mark Jackson

[@China2TXMan]

Or they can hire JJ Reddit and open a circuit

[@imajeburrell5098]

Mark Jackson would be fire 🔥

[@FinnishSportsGamer]

Idk why people keep saying teams should hire Mark Jackson. There’s clearly a reason he was fired in the first place and a reason why no one has hired him in the decade since despite thousands of people saying a team should hire him every year. I mean does he even want to go back to coaching?

[@chrisartis9585]

I'll pass on mark, like a lot of people have said there's a reason he hasn't tcoached in a minute. I'm down with a Kenny Atkinson or even JB Bickerstaff

[@coachsterling7124]

Who exactly has mark developed 🤔.. Steph? Klay? 😂 he didn’t “develop “ them.. they could alrdy shoot bruh.. he even said that’s the best guard combo he’s ever seen and that’s not because they were trash 5 years before they got under mark 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@jceeb3087]

Troy Weaver try to warn the owner that that Monty Williams was not the right coach!! But the owner kept pushing for him. People forget with the Pistons started off 2 and 0, on fire. The third game you saw a total different shift on how they were playing something More than likely happened in the locker room. People who watch the team seen the difference.

[@diegochavez6203]

They should send Steve Kerr to the Pistons so he can prove that he's an actually good coach

[@TheRonnieaj]

Nah. He’s got nothing to prove. He won 16 more games his first season with GSW with pretty substantially the same lineup as Jackson’s last year. Given that they had 51 wins in Mark’s last year, adding 16 to that is impressive. Besides, the man has 9 rings. Like he gives a hoot what people think.

[@3mrwright]

Real Pistons fan here. I have plenty of hope for the future.... can't get any worse! 😅 You can't have a season worse than the previous, when in the previous season they were tanking without Cade Cunningham. Monty made baffling decisions. Tom Gores (the owner) hired him, not Troy Weaver. Troy Weaver made plenty of bad decisions, but there were too many cooks in that front office. Weaver never got to choose his own coach but Weaver deserved to be fired and so did Monty. Good on Tom Gores for eating 65 million & admitting his mistake. Langdon has his work cut out for him. I'll be rooting for him.

[@joaquinmartinez341]

Love your take as one of the other 5 Pistons fans in the world

[@3mrwright]

@@joaquinmartinez341 I've been lucky enough to see the team win in my life. But like the Lions, once we start winning again we'll be taking over other people's arenas. Lots of people from Detroit all around the world.

[@johnnypreer5276]

“Can’t get any worse” I like your optimism

[@tyrismaxey]

The man selected KH over Ty Haliburton 😐 yeah, it can and will get much much worst.

[@nickhall1115]

Things can always get worse

[@hankanatorpoo8777]

mans got out like a bandit

[@4L103]

I feel soo bad for pistons fans honestly

[@Amir_3011w]

Me too😅

[@jackdamenace13]

Pistons fans are true fans.

[@byronparker4088]

Me too because Detroit is a proud sports Town

[@robertpawelek]

KrispyFlakes been punching air for two decades now...

[@ivandragomiloff2356]

If their fans weren’t so arrogant and obnoxious, I would feel sorry…but sorry not sorry.

[@THEENERGYINHALER]

Suns fan here... I LOVE MONTY... it was dumb for Suns to let him go.

[@JKLauderdale]

Monty's probably going to take 1-2yrs off and spend it with his wife. She's going through chemo, he didn't want the job in Detroit to begin with but they just kept shoveling more and more money his way - Assuming she recovers, we'll see him courtside after that

[@TheRonnieaj]

And given how his first wife passed, he knows exactly how precious everyday is.

[@Fred_Die]

Monty Williams made out like a bandit! What an amazing situation for him, he got his bag AND rid of a crap team. The only better situation is Mazzula in Boston

[@BlueRevolt24]

Money is stupid. It's not about money all the time. Monty just didn't care anymore

[@AlldatJazz-rw9wy]

​@@BlueRevolt24why should he have cared, they gave him nothing to work with, a lot of young cats, that probably had a problem with him, because he was trying to make them work.😂 Detroit is rookie camp, just like OKC, but they have a good f.o..😂

[@Fred_Die]

@@BlueRevolt24 when you're talking about basically $100 million, it is all about money

[@chrisartis9585]

Nah this man quit on his team and didn't wanna be there. Ain't nothing sad about this as he's still getting the rest of the roughly $65mil left on his contract😂.

[@kingstonshacklebolt1431]

How do you know the coach quit on the team? How is it even possible for a coach to quit on a team? What did he quit drawing up basketball plays or something? If you ask me, most of these young players are just uncoachable

[@tonytooshort]

How'd he quit on his team?

[@kingstonshacklebolt1431]

The Detroit Pistons have been trash for about the last 19 years. That is an ownership and Management problem, not a coaching problem

[@AlldatJazz-rw9wy]

Well the f.o. quit on him. All those young cats and not one vet. They had no cohesion to begin with. They are rebuilding, and starting from scratch. What do you expect. Hopefully they'll get better but r.n. it is, what it is.

[@chrisartis9585]

@@AlldatJazz-rw9wy if Dwayne Casey had the same roster minus Cade for 70 and somehow managed to get 17 wins. Monty had the same roster and Cade for a majority of the season and got less wins. The team is no doubt built horrid, but when he's making the conscious decision to play Killian Hayes over Jaden Ivey there's a point when the coach is just doing it on purpose. Man constantly ran 11 man rotations and putting all bench lineups out. Man started giving a rookie ausar, arguably the best defender in the team, DNPs. FO quit on him but as a fan who still loves this team despite it being a disappointment it seemed like he quit on them during the 28 game losing streak. I didn't expect him to be a miracle worker, but I also didn't expect him to have the worst season in our franchises history.

[@TheGallant9]

No Team in the history of any sport drop from 1 to 5 3 years in a row. Every lottery for some strange reason Adam Silver.... we get the worst pick we can get

[@theadidaskid]

*These NBA Coaches bringing back the One-And-Done from college 😭😭😭*

[@saddiqbey9592]

He was a horrible coach and had bad rotations, we also have a new head of basketball operations who is probably looking to go a different direction, Monty had to go, Troy had to go, the whole coaching staff needed to be cleared out

[@eltoro_ttv]

Darvin Ham has entered the chat

[@itztokeyo]

​@eltoro_ttv ngl id prefer JJ. A new young coach for a young team. Plus he can teach them how to shoot better.

[@eltoro_ttv]

@@itztokeyo i understand, but a HC is something you can't mess up, ESPECIALLY wit the Lakers

[@itztokeyo]

@eltoro_ttv Monty would let LeBron coach. Yall would be fine. Us in Detroit just don't have a cp3 or LeBron or any of that type of player.

[@FinnishSportsGamer]

Anyone thinking this is rock bottom for the Pistons clearly doesn’t interact with Pistons fans or watch the Pistons at all. Monty and Weaver getting fired during the past few weeks are great and necessary moves that will likely benefit us in the short term and certainly will in the long term. People still acting like Monty was a great coach and that this season was not at all his fault are just plain dumb, like I’m sorry it’s not possible to be a great or even good coach as the head of a team that lost 28 straight games. If you think he somehow still deserves a chance as a head coach, I really hope your team hires him so that you can be immediately be proven wrong. Also shoutout to Tom Gores for realizing the mistake he made last offseason, cuz I know most owners would not be able to swallow their pride and acknowledge that they made a massive mistake after only a single season.

[@funnyface_plays4385]

As a pistons fan I don’t even know what the end is because we can’t get a good pick when we’re bad and I believe this roster could be around a 30 win team with what they have but we’re not even close to that

[@taylorsilver2566]

Bro you are on fire today keep it up

[@sloth610]

I get confused how the coach gets fired, the players are on the court

[@jerryalexander8803]

Anybody who actually followed the Pistons last season knows why Monty was let go.. All these guys like Stephen A and other media have no clue what they are talking about and never sat down and watched a Pistons game last season to even be able to have an opinion

[@Vadimony]

We need to go back to that 4 centers lineup that was really good a few years ago.

[@JrRanks]

What a joke of a franchise! If people are going to be obsessed and hate on the lakers for firing coaches when they aren’t coaching up to expectations with LeBron being on the team, they better hate on DET for firing Monty after one year, when he literally has nothing to work with but a bunch of young players. Trash franchise and I feel HORRIBLE for the loyal pistons fans. Seems it won’t get better anytime soon

[@gstew114]

Yea lakers fire coaches for over performance pistons fire a guy who quit on his team on game 3 and lead them to a historic losing season

[@jarrettchristensen_music]

The pistons have cade Cunningham and that's pretty much it

[@3mrwright]

No need to feel bad for Pistons fans. We've seen more winning than a lot of franchises...just not in the last 20 years 😅 We'll be alright though

[@Scarecrowbear6724]

Ye

[@JrRanks]

@@3mrwright you’re the optimistic part of the pistons fans lol

[@TheeRomantic]

65m for a year of work. I'm going to retire

[@mariobautista8294]

Jeanie Buss learn from detroit if you want a headcoach badly offer him the moon not a picture of it.

[@AlldatJazz-rw9wy]

Well the only viable coach available now is Monty🤣. Lmao!!! They better snatch him, or make their problem bigger by hiring JJ.🤣🤣🤣🤣. Man the Lakers ain't no better, their f.o. is crap too.🤣

[@lengendaryfettygaming2709]

As a pistons fan, him being gone is hope, the year before he came we won 17 games and had Cade miss 70 games that season and with a healthy with Monty as coach won 14 with a healthy cade…..he sucks

[@yettitube4785]

No he doesnt

[@lengendaryfettygaming2709]

@@yettitube4785 he does

[@MrOfficialscotty]

Bro still gets paid though 💰

[@Jon-dx1sz]

Mike we always see eye-to-eye. You are a smart guy

[@KKOPPONG]

I don’t understand why that contract was that long in the 1st place😂

[@nuggiesss6193]

Pistons fan here. I feel bad doe Monty for his personal issues, but god damn did he need to be let go, he was actively sabotaging this team

[@montana.3137]

The piston are trash Mike I from Detroit I stay less than 15 mins from the area went to one game this season. Go Lions 🦁 2024-25

[@bd1zzle]

“Ha ha ha… I…I didn’t know where you were going with this one” 😂😮

[@jackieclark2004]

I didn’t abandon the Lions when they were getting clowned and I won’t abandon the Pistons! There is still hope for them……Detroit Basketball will be back!!!!

[@atlricanprince4202]

You got this story all twisted young book.He didn't want a coach there.The money that he was offered anybody would a coach that team.Trust me, you still get all that 60 plus million

[@TheTruthSeeker462]

According to Monty's Contract the Lakers really lowballed Dan Hurley 😅

[@lakerfan2874]

Sounds like the time he was head coach for the Hornets/Pelicans. You can't blame the coach every time a roster doesn't work in practice when it could work on paper.

[@jasonsasan6821]

All time finesse by Monty, kudos to him

[@user-xr1xs1zy2z]

Monty's agent is a genius.

[@worldbfree4u]

Monty is now the highest paid NBA coach and he is unemployed. WOW!

[@seancramer1096]

Tear it down and start fresh it doesn’t matter who coaches the Pistons Believe in the process part two

[@BrandanTheBroker]

The weirdest this with the Pistons is watching those games, Detroit was competitive the first 2 quarters, sometimes 3. Always somehow fell apart in the 4th quarter. They would be up on Boston or LA or someone else then blow it in the end.

[@jerryalexander8803]

That is on the coach

[@johncarlodelacruz2617]

Thank you for posting vid on my Pistons. Idc if its positive or negative 😂

[@balancedwoah6374]

I still don’t understand how Hayes was starting over Ivey.

[@MTezTurner]

Sup Mike. I'm a BIG PISTONS FAN!! Also born and raised here. Basically, we were robbed by Monty Williams and his supporters. The supporters of Monty Williams, are happy about supporting this man and getting him here, and took advantage of an NBA franchise that was considered the "Siberia of the NBA". Is criminal activity anywhere, promoted and supported, when a plethora of business and entertainment professionals can eat from the plate of food being offered for services? Lastly, only the toughest and hungriest NBA players can play here, and the lot of NBA athletes are pretty spoiled these days. We need the hungry guys this league needs to offer, and they will have to be ok with being outcasted their entire lives professionally, because they chose to eat (Win an NBA Championship).

[@supermario_49]

NBA teams always fire coaches in a snap no matter what

[@M4HLM4HL]

These new intros are 🔥🔥

[@kurtpittman7225]

Seems like it would've been worth noting that Monty didn't want the job with the Pistons in the first place then they upped the offer to make him the highest paid coach in the league. Monty knew he was getting hired onto a trash pile but the money was too good to turn down. The best thing that could happen to the Pistons is they get a new owner.

[@Pvizzy]

Monty Williams was trying to get fired from a job he didn’t want in the first place. Congrats to him.

[@jarvisstradford7211]

This is why I hate the NBA lottery

[@JimmyP-dg8qz]

Monti should go to the lakers and hire jj as assistant

[@Demckeaks]

I loved the family reference. ❤😂

[@EliUnger10]

When did Stephen A say anything wrong? Both clips were facts. He said the Lakers should consider him. Facts.

[@trevorkerr4103]

I went to 12 pistons game this year. Theres SOME talent on this roster. The biggest problem was the lineups that were put out. Monte is a great coach when its superstar level players but when he needs to count on at least 4 guys to play well he didnt recognize who played well together. In my opinion i think that we should trade cade cunningham and isaiah stewart for a veteran player and some picks. They really need outside shooting to free up space for the duren/ivey pick and roll.

[@jaynoii]

Rip Detroit

[@jnmc2498]

It’s clearly not working. Pistons need to tear it down and start a rebuild.💀

[@B-RanBreaks]

I am a Pistons fan, and I am happy to see Monte go. He didn't want to be here from the start... Tom Gores had to pay top dollar to convince him to take the job in the first place. First month into the season you could see it in his body language, not to mention some of his decisions to play Hayes over Ivey confused anyone who watched. As much as I like Cade.... I think we have to trade him to help jump start the rebuild. If we keep him, not only do we not have pieces around him (besides maybe Duran), but Detroit is not a top free agent destination at this point. I am just happy that we now have the Lions to look forward to, because it might be half a decade until the Pistons are actually competing in the East. Crazy draft idea... take Bronny with our 5 pick and lure Lebron to Detroit. We might not win, but we would sell a lot more tickets and would be more entertaining than what is currently on the court in the D.

[@gspadeo87]

Langdon being a Duke guy will point you in the right direction of who is the next coach

[@kingcartrell4554]

Everybody in the comments talking about how bad they feel don’t know Detroit Basketball. The Fans here didn’t want him. He wasn’t the coach for this team he came here for the money he couldn’t pass up but really didn’t have the passion to coach young and up and coming players. He need a veteran team. And he need years off from coaching to get his mind right. Stop listening to the Media.

[@user-yv1wf1ks5j]

rebuild time

[@Jakeschoenknecht]

Owner of the pistons and owner of the suns are co-CEOs of a mortgage company in metro Detroit. That’s why suns let Monte go and the Pistons hired him at such a high price

[@TheMesa22]

What!?! He just started. Oh man 😢 Wish Monty the best and hope he finds another job that suits him.

[@jerryalexander8803]

He should've never been hired in the first place

[@sherylrush1795]

Pistons fan all ways hope what’s the old saying when down get back up

[@Master-ng9uj]

"at all whatsoever" is the same as saying you're a "male man" or a "famous celebrity" or.... you should get the idea. Pick one or the other. This shit hurts my brain.

[@countfloydschillerhorrorth2090]

I remember several HC jobs ago people were saying this dude was a genius and would be the best coach in the NBA. Media creates their own narratives and usually got nothing to do with Reality. And you don't want to get on their bad side either.

[@HONDACR919USA313]

Tons of hope- Detroit vs Everybody

[@Big_Krone]

All this team had was Monty and Cade. Now all yhey have is Cade... for now... 😂

[@juanlockhart4811]

lol our plan is to just rock with the lions

[@kishorhegde7218]

Monty Williams making more money than half the nba players without even working is crazy

[@dpelton63]

As a Detroit Fan I’m honestly left with no hope for the future…I’ve been waiting for a good team since Chauncey Billups left 😂

[@hardysheltoniii6040]

IMO Williams needed another season to fix the situation. It really is the owners (Gores) fault for creating this carousel of microwave results (firings 14- present). I personally didn’t want Williams but if he was that coach that has turned things around go for it. This young team needs a tougher coach M Jackson, K Atkinson, Brett Brown types who have developed rosters like this . If Gores would let the management under him work at building it up it wouldn’t be as bad but not getting draft luck hurts too as there is no way a team should draft 5th 2 years in a row regardless of if they were tanking as a narrative was set in both last years draft ( Spurs building a training facility) & this years draft. ( The Hawks have never gotten the 1st pick). If the team was top 3 like the Rockets 2(21), 3 (22), & 4(23) this could be a different scenario but the fact remains that getting a top 3 pick should have happened for this team which shows that the draft lottery is fixed. So as a fan I have to watch this team like I did in the Lanier era and Bad Boy era of , not to mention the G Hill defection and be patient for the right coach & management to take the team back to respectability.

[@lovedenaro6729]

Killian Hayes was linked to the pistons since Joe dumars spotted him . He was also trained by ex pistons will Bynum. That’s why killian got so many chances and never was sent to the G-league not even for one game. Gores is also responsible for the Blake griffin trade. Weaver never wanted Monty. It’s the owner who gave Monty the morning even after he said he didn’t want to coach. Not to mention gores with Philly Jackson hired Moe cheeks, the fastest fired head coach in nba history.

[@patientzero291]

The Pistons might want to draft more foreign players rather than Americans.

[@cindeezy247]

The pistons decided to participate in No win November instead of No shave November. 😂

[@youjerbchannel1533]

You mean No nut november

[@trickyyyshotzzz5744]

Bro you’re asking a regular human being to turn a shiny turd into gold

[@Trick.Ricky.Sternn]

Yes they’re yes they’re.

[@FinnIgnasiak]

0 seconds and 0 likes bro fell off 😢

[@XTheTrimReaperX]

Been watching the Detroit Pistons Lions & Red Wings since the late 80s, I think JJ may be the right coach for the franchise I miss being respectable, At least the Lions are fun to watch n Detroit right now, and Yzerman will have the Wings winning again soon.

[@bobby3008bul]

I think the Pistons should hire a legend of the team to save them and make Dennis Rodman GM and coach. 😅

[@canamoparacostarica2373]

People forget part of a good career besides your raw talent is the development team. Maybe they should look at what they are doing to turn their potential into reality

[@KKOPPONG]

Do coaches play bad players(who were high picks)because they think they’re good or are they playing those inferior players because they are trying to increase their trade value? I think that’s an option we don’t consider because no coach would outright say that to the media.

[@ez8308]

I’ll be the next head coach. No experience at all. But I’m cheap at just 1 million dollars.

[@marcusgilmore5211]

I’m happy they didn’t take Tyrese being a Pacers fan…

[@twilso9]

Getting paid $65 million to NOT coach the pistons might be the best payday in NBA history

[@lucashowell7653]

I thought they had Pelicans in New Orleans?

[@ExtraterrestrialBeing-jc7to]

J.J. Redick will be The Lakers Coach he already Told me..

[@MisterJiggles]

Piston fan here. Happy about Monty getting fired. I don't think he was the right person to hire in the first place. The Pistons need a coach who is going to focus whole heartedly on this team and the development of it. I hope Trajan Langdon makes some roster moves but I'm not banking on this roster being a contender in the next year. I think it's going to take some serious crafting of trades and free agents, along with player development. I'm hopeful for the future, I'm just not banking on this team being great any time soon.

[@joshuaedwards3831]

No bad coaching decisions? Dick Vitale was scary bad

[@mikewilliams3509]

I think Detroit actually covered their spreads more than half the season lol

[@kimkaisershi]

NBA Teams be firing head coaches but not GMs who did not help their franchise to get to where they need to be 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@TjayN2o]

As a pistons fans i don’t blame monty are roster is still developing and it’s not his fault for us losing

[@tobyncummins]

I’m becoming aware that these videos are much ado about nothing but edited in such a way where it is mind numbingly comfortable enough to procrastinate on.

[@STANDONFAITH229]

Firing Coach of the Year is wild to me like whats the point of them winning the award. Damn sure seems like you dont want to win it.

[@randysallade9468]

Monty is a genius! Pretty good pay for two years!

[@taylanac1]

Pistons should go to G-league or freeze operations until further notice. They have been run horribly since the 2004 championship.

[@bussterdouglas]

14 wins is CRAZY 😂

[@nixbattle7763]

Detroit vs everybody!!

[@killbill9821]

lmaoo i hate when bad teams just fire coaches just because😂 this is insane

[@wsshead]

Thank you for a Pistons video, Mike, it's a nice departure from the Lakers, Lebron, Wemby and Caitlin Clark. I'm elated that Monty is gone. He and Troy Weaver should've been fired when they reached loss #20 in a row. Monty showed no fire for the team during games when it comes to arguing fouls, no passion for his job and benched Ivey for that bum Killian. Cade is our future but if he doesn't get some decent vets that can help him, he'll be going nowhere with hapless youngsters, wasting talent and prime years. Langdon, please for the love of God, sign some good vets and get this team back to contenders!