Pistons general manager Joe Dumars has been impressed by what he has seen so far from Brandon Knight.

“What I’ve found out is this,” Joe Dumars said. “You pull him aside and talk to him about a weakness, something you have to improve on, you can best believe that the next time you see him on the court, he’s either working on it or you can see he’s trying to improve on it.

“That’s the true mark right there. When you talk to a young guy and say here’s a shortcoming you have, here’s a hole in your game, and you see him put hours and hours into it and see him start to improve on it right away, then you know this kid’s got something in him to be great. Because that’s all greatness is – continuing to get better and better and better and never being satisfied. Greg (Monroe) and Brandon both have that.

“I don’t think you can find that in any kind of testing or metrics or stat or anything else. He has to have it in him and those two guys have it in them.”