http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/the-big-question-tayshaun-prince/ Your Go-To Source For Pistons Coverage Thu, 23 May 2013 16:54:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/the-big-question-tayshaun-prince/comment-page-1/#comment-9393 Patrick Hayes Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:27:20 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/the-big-question-tayshaun-prince/#comment-9393 @Laser: Making the playoffs certainly doesn't help the team's future. But getting at least two home playoff games (or maybe three if they can manage to avoid a sweep) isn't something that should be scoffed at. The organization needs and wants money right now with attendance going down the last two seasons. They'd take a first round sweep in a second, even at the expense of a lottery pick. @Laser:
Making the playoffs certainly doesn’t help the team’s future. But getting at least two home playoff games (or maybe three if they can manage to avoid a sweep) isn’t something that should be scoffed at. The organization needs and wants money right now with attendance going down the last two seasons. They’d take a first round sweep in a second, even at the expense of a lottery pick.

]]> http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/the-big-question-tayshaun-prince/comment-page-1/#comment-9358 Laser Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:45:47 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/the-big-question-tayshaun-prince/#comment-9358 feldman: are you seriously advocating, with that last line, that the team let him walk for nothing?? don't get me wrong, whatever the worst thing we could do with prince, i'm guessing that's what joe does. but you actually think letting him walk qualifies as the "right" thing to do??   i get that you and i do NOT see eye-to-eye on this team right now, so i can see why you think holding onto him for the duration of the season is a possibility. personally, i don't think it will be very long before our postseason hopes evaporate, so i doubt we end up holding onto him for the sake of a playoff push. but no matter how you slice it, you just can't advocate letting your best player walk for nothing. it's not like that would even give us cap space! we'd have to move an additional contract to have more than the MLE to spend this summer, and as you must know, none of our other major contracts are going anywhere.   hayes: this probably comes down to where the team is in the standings come february. if the pistons can even dream of the playoffs at that point, smart money says joe does the dumb thing and keeps him. the result will invariably be a swift first round exit or falling short of the playoffs entirely. then we're left to let him walk or give him an extension we can't afford, even though we presumably drafted three small forwards a year ago for a reason (other than to have them be our power forwards of the future). now's the time to trade that guy. we must at least agree on that much, right? feldman: are you seriously advocating, with that last line, that the team let him walk for nothing?? don’t get me wrong, whatever the worst thing we could do with prince, i’m guessing that’s what joe does. but you actually think letting him walk qualifies as the “right” thing to do??
 
i get that you and i do NOT see eye-to-eye on this team right now, so i can see why you think holding onto him for the duration of the season is a possibility. personally, i don’t think it will be very long before our postseason hopes evaporate, so i doubt we end up holding onto him for the sake of a playoff push. but no matter how you slice it, you just can’t advocate letting your best player walk for nothing. it’s not like that would even give us cap space! we’d have to move an additional contract to have more than the MLE to spend this summer, and as you must know, none of our other major contracts are going anywhere.
 
hayes: this probably comes down to where the team is in the standings come february. if the pistons can even dream of the playoffs at that point, smart money says joe does the dumb thing and keeps him. the result will invariably be a swift first round exit or falling short of the playoffs entirely. then we’re left to let him walk or give him an extension we can’t afford, even though we presumably drafted three small forwards a year ago for a reason (other than to have them be our power forwards of the future). now’s the time to trade that guy. we must at least agree on that much, right?

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