“Not to mention, we want the Pistons to get better, and that doesn’t happen by moving starters in exchange for situational players or late first/early second round draft picks.”

The entire point of moving them isn’t to be better this season. But without those two on the books, Detroit could sign players who give them about as much. But, adding draft picks is one of the best way to add value to a franchise. In other words, trading them is taking an immediate loss for a delayed gain (which admittedly probably isn’t as big–but the loss is irrelevant now unless you care whether you support a 30 win team or a 25 win team)

I don’t know which of the things I said you are responding to. But if it is about Charlie, CV is NOT on the last year of his deal. It jsut feels that way to Pistons fans because Detroit can amnesty him over the summer. But his contract runs through next season. 

You can argue that Afflalo looked solid. And he did. But he was getting nearly 20 mpg. And he was a second year player from near the end of the first round. Stuckey, Rip, and AI had all earned a lot more minutes than him (AI wasn’t great that season but when you have a future HOF who was easily playing all-star caliber ball the previous season, you give him the full year to see if he can get his mojo back). In that context, getting over 15 mpg is nothing to complain about.

Amir is the guy that you could argue deserved more PT. But as I pointed out, whenever he got it, he just picked up fouls way too fast.

Again, all I said was that most of the young prospects who have flashed potential in Detroit since the rebuild got their opportunities. The Pistons may not have taken advantage of their opportunities to hang onto them, but they did play the men–except Macklin (you could argue Summers, but he never really showed anything in his scant opportunities).

Actually if Villanueva had been playing well, we may not have seen an increase in wins (maybe here or there)… but we’d have a trade piece that other teams might be interested in acquiring.  Right now the Pistons have very few of those that arent instrumental to our long-term success. 

We would NEVER get a player in return for either Tay or Max that could provide as much for the Pistons as those two have.  We would NEVER get an even deal for either of those two — because no one is desperate for either an aging yet efficient SF or an undersized albiet energetic PF, to give up another starting quality player (especially a squad thats signing them to ‘put them over the edge’).  

Not to mention, we want the Pistons to get better, and that doesn’t happen by moving starters in exchange for situational players or late first/early second round draft picks.
 

But I pin most of the blame for this performance at the top of the organization. It’s a poorly assembled roster, the team hasn’t committed full to bottoming out enough to truly rebuild and, considering what Dumars did with money in free agency the last time he had it, I’m leery about what might happen this offseason.