Some teams enter the season with a ton of uncertainty. The Pistons aren't one of them.

They are pretty much set at all five positions, and you can probably predict with a pretty high degree of accuracy how minutes will be doled out when everyone is healthy.

Stan Van Gundy has tried to build up the team's depth, but the Pistons are going to rely on their starting lineup heavily yet again. Even though they were integrating a substantial new piece in the form of Tobias Harris after the trade deadline, the starting lineup still logged the second-most minutes after last year's All-Star break.

They added useful depth pieces like Jon Leuer, Boban Marjanovic and Ish Smith, but there is every reason to think the starting five is still going to be heavily featured this season yet again.

Of course, that doesn't mean there isn't any uncertainty with this roster.

We may know how much to expect Reggie Jackson, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Marcus Morris, Tobias Harris and Andre Drummond to play, but this is still a very young group -- with room to grow together. Jackson and Morris are the elder statesmen of the group and they will be just 26 and 27 years old, respectively, at the start of the season.

As much as it might seem like the Pistons are a finished product, they're not.

And with how much Fantasy owners tend to overvalue the unknown, their collective stability might actually work to your advantage.

Room to grow?

Andre Drummond
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At some point, the Fantasy community gets impatient waiting on upside. It doesn't matter how shiny the toy was when it was new, if it doesn't start spinning or shooting off sparks or, well something, before long, we're going to move on to the next thing. That might be what is happening with Drummond, everyone's favorite breakout candidate over the last few years. Drummond took another step forward last season, emerging as the league's best rebounder, but he didn't quite make the leap to Fantasy superstardom. He puts up big per-game numbers, but the Dwight Howard comparisons have, so far, not come to fruition. This is a problem because you need to be Dwight Howard-good to justify a 35.5 percent mark at the free-throw line. Drummond was going as early as the third round in some leagues last season, as Fantasy owners were willing to bet on him finding that upside. Now? He might slip to the fifth or sixth round, as his flaws start to calcify in owners' minds, while the allure of the unknown simultaneously evaporates. Of course, Drummond just turned 23, and it isn't crazy to think his offensive game still has room to grow. He hasn't figured out how to score efficiently out of the post, but if he just takes a small step forward there, he still has the ability to approach 60 percent from the field. Add in his rebounding and defensive production, and you could be looking at a better version of DeAndre Jordan here. Drummond isn't a finished product, even if Fantasy players might start treating him like one.

Sleeper

Stanley Johnson
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2015-16
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The one person who might be able to throw a wrench in the predictable Pistons rotation is Johnson, last year's No. 8 overall pick. Johnson struggled as a rookie, but still likely has more upside on the wing than either Morris or Caldwell-Pope if he develops right. He could give the Pistons another ball-handling option, a welcome change for a team that had to rely on Jackson to create nearly all of their offense. However, he looked far away from actually reaching whatever his potential is last season, as he actually finished with more points than field-goal attempts, with nearly as many turnovers as assists as well. Still, if you're looking for one player to come out of nowhere on this roster, Johnson is the guy to target in the later rounds of your deep league.