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With $22 million in cap space, and the ability to create more by using the amnesty clause on Charlie Villanueva, Dumars plans to reinvent the Pistons as the kind of athletic, fast team that has worked so well in Miami and Oklahoma City, among other places. Caldwell-Pope, Siva and second-round pick Tony Mitchell (North Texas State) were all picked to help that process along. “We need to get more athletic, we need to get faster, and we need shooters,” Dumars said. “All three of these young men help us in those three categories, at one level or another.” Caldwell-Pope was considered one of the fastest guards in the draft, trailing only Miami’s Shane Larkin, and Mitchell might have been the best pure athlete. In fact, he has already built enough of a reputation to draw a challenge from the new face of the franchise. “Andre Drummond already told me that he needed to know which one of us could jump higher,” said Mitchell. “We’re going to be figuring that out in a little while.” Read more: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/viewart/20130629/SPORTS/306290009/Dumars-makes-hard-quiet-draft-decisions-Pistons
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Most years, there are top-10 draft surprises. This year, no one knows what to expect in the first place, with every player seemingly harboring his own unique flaw or red flag. Ricky Ledo went to Providence College for a year but never played as a partial qualifier. He practiced with the Friars and NBA scouts flocked to watch, but several analysts thought he might go undrafted when he declared for the draft without playing a second of college basketball. Most projections have Ledo going late in the first round. "A lot of these players, they have a body of work, they have a couple years of college," Ledo said. "Me, I'm basically coming out of high school." Tony Mitchell was lauded as a possible lottery pick after his freshman season at North Texas, then decided to stay for a second year, under a new coach, and with more time to evaluate, scouts detected a spitting motor. Mitchell is a borderline first-rounder tonight. Staying in college cost him millions. "I think it tremendously hurt," Mitchell said. "But I really can't talk about it anymore. I've just got to show it." Read more: http://www.mlive.com/pistons/index.ssf/2013/06/2013_nba_draft_begins_joe_duma.html