Trajan Langdon has navigated the fringes of the roster brilliantly this season, finding cheap impact players in Daniss Jenkins, Javonte Green and Paul Reed, but they won’t be cheap forever.
Reed has been the best third center in the league this season and has stepped up time and time again when called upon, including last night against the Knicks, when he held his own against the Knicks’ bigs with both Jalen Duren and Isaiah Stewart on the bench.
When Reed plays, he certainly doesn’t look like a third center, and he wouldn’t be if he were playing for about 20 other teams in the NBA, but the Pistons happen to have two younger centers in front of him in the pecking order.