If the five-year, $35 million deal recently given to him by the Detroit Pistons says anything about Stan Van Gundy, it’s that he’s very, very smart and very, very good at what he does.
Which makes his recent comments about Greg Monroe all the more intriguing.
In a recent interview with Pistons.com, Van Gundy had this to say about how he envisions Monroe and Andre Drummond—Detroit’s All-Star center in waiting—working together (h/t to Pro Basketball Talk’s Kurt Helin):
I think it is an ideal pairing. If I look at just the film I’ve watched now and looking at the numbers, you would say that Greg and Andre together were great offensively. That was a great combination on the offensive end of the floor, especially when the three guys around them were shooters—more conventional perimeter types. That worked very, very well. Now, it didn’t work very well defensively. I think it puts a lot of responsibility on Greg Monroe to have to guard out on the perimeter.
But I think there are things we can do in terms of schemes and things that would make it a little easier on ...
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