The Detroit Pistons have a problem. Luckily for them, it’s actually a good problem to have.

The team has too many point guards. One too many, to be precise. On the day of the NBA Trade Deadline the Pistons acquired Reggie Jackson from the Oklahoma City Thunder in a three-team deal also involving the Utah Jazz.

On the surface the deal seems obvious; point guard was a position of need for Detroit after losing Brandon Jennings for the season in a game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Jan. 24.

But looking just a bit deeper, the trade doesn’t make sense. Detroit gave up two draft picks (and two players in Kyle Singler and D.J. Augustin, but they didn’t seem like important future pieces for the Pistons anyway) for Jackson when they already had Jennings and weren’t seriously considering winning a championship this season anyway.

And if it seems as though two second-round picks don’t mean much, keep in mind now-Milwaukee Buck Khris Middleton was drafted in the second round by Detroit, and he’s currently one of the best young players in the entire NBA.

It would seem odd to trade away anything for Jackson just to let him walk in free agency this offseason, so it seems likely that Detroit at least attempts to keep him. It would also be unlikely that the team trades Jennings due to his injury and the fact that he was having a very strong season before his injury.

And just to make matters more complicated, shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is in the middle of a strong sophomore campaign with the Pistons. So yes indeed, it does appear that Detroit has some sort of point guard problem.

So, what will coach/president (of the Pistons, not the United States. At least not yet, anyway) Stan Van Gundy do to remedy this point guard problem this offseason? He has a few options that I’ll go over here, starting with the most likely and descending into the more interesting ones.