J.B. Bickerstaff makes clear his trust in Trajan Langdon and his cabinet to land on the right decisions for the Pistons now and into the future, so he wasn’t lobbying for action at the trade deadline.

It's easy to assume a piston skirt is just extra material that's left to act to guide the piston as it moves through the bore. But it actually performs a much more important task, which is to manage ...