Keith Langlois

With the All-Star break behind them, the Pistons resume play tonight to start the season’s home stretch of 28 games over 53 days. That’s our jumping-off point for the latest edition of Pistons Mailbag.

When Isaiah Stewart returned from a month-long absence with an ankle injury and a three-game suspension tacked on top of it, Monty Williams wasted no time rushing him back into the starting lineup.

In everything Langdon has said and done, it’s clear his intent is not to build a team that can compete for a play-in spot in 2025 but for more meaningful stakes at some point a few exits farther down the road.

Hired in late May as Pistons president of basketball operations, Langdon’s first seven weeks on the job put to the test virtually every job requirement of a front office’s top decision-maker.

With 95-plus percent of NBA roster-building complete across the league and still eight weeks left until the Pistons open training camp, Trajan Langdon has remained disciplined to the goals he enunciated amid his enormously consequential first few months on the job.

The state of the Pistons roster, putting a rotation jigsaw puzzle together and the best Pistons dunk no one saw are items on the docket in the latest edition of Pistons Mailbag.

The first practice of Pistons training camp is five weeks away. We’re midway between the start of Summer League and the preseason opener.

As training camp for the 2024-25 Pistons season nears, Pistons looks at the compelling questions the team faces ahead of their Oct. 23 season opener. Today: Where will Isaiah Stewart line up under new coach J.B. Bickerstaff?

Will the Pistons be able to generate both 3-point volume and efficiency?

As training camp for the 2024-25 Pistons season nears, Pistons looks at the compelling questions the team faces ahead of their Oct. 23 season opener. Today: How does J.B. Bickerstaff balance his first and second units?