Comments on: It turns out Will Bynum wasn’t the biggest problem with the Pistons rotation

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:25:08 +0000

@nuetes:
I don’t understand how this team is so far below expectations. They’ve won a third of their games. If they keep up that pace, they’ll win about 27ish this season. Even the most optimistic estimates had them in like 35-37 range, and most who predicted they’d do that well even admitted they were being optimistic.
The Pistons aren’t that good. But no one should be caught off guard by it.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:22:20 +0000

@chiballa:
The headline was sarcastic. It was in reference to the fact that Kuester insinuated ‘big changes’ were coming, and the only change he made was not playing Bynum.

By: A Second Look at Magic/Pistons

A Second Look at Magic/Pistons — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:28:31 +0000

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By: Laser

Laser — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:48:00 +0000

@nuetes: buddy, no need to apologize. nobody could blame you for giving up on this team. just like nobody could really blame the players. i mean, i suppose they should have enough professionalism and pride, not to mention are paid big time money, to go out and give it their all. but it’s worse than showing up at a gun fight with a knife; they’re showing up every night with a grapefruit spoon. who could blame them for not swinging it at the gunman and instead trying to enjoy a nice grapefruit before they get shot straight to hell? not me.

By: Laser

Laser — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:43:21 +0000

a few things:

1) you needn’t look any farther than this win to see the totality of the pistons’ current situation. a very good, not great, opponent that lives and dies by the three and is constructed to beat bad teams but isn’t quite a credible contender (whether they fancy themselves one or not) and will never win anything. we’re not talking about the lakers or celtics here. and they weren’t “short four players.” they were short their franchise player, starting point guard and two key rotation pieces. that’s so far beyond “depleted” it’s not even funny. and we lost by 13. there’s been some talk about the pistons getting a “signature win,” as if that has any relevance to a team this bad, but this was certainly our “signature game.” the pistons in a nutshell. sure i could stop here, but…

2) i totally called the kuester quote about “working on some things.” it was exactly what i expected, but that’s been quite a running theme to anyone who’s followed my predictions all season. nobody could argue that we’ve made any sort of attempt to tinker as long as rip and stuckey are still starting and villa isn’t. i’m just going to say it: john kuester is very possibly a worse coach than michael curry. at least curry took chances and made bold moves when things were going south. whether his moves worked or not (and they never did), the guy put his job on the line by DOING HIS JOB.

3) tayshaun identified what i’ve been saying about teams buckling down at the end of games (he used the word knuckling). he stopped short of saying that when good teams get serious in crunch time the pistons can not win, but i suspect he knows.

4) anyone have any excuses left for this team anymore? langlois, dumars, kuester. let’s talk chemistry and rotations and all the irrelevant hogwash. this godforsaken team has been together almost in its entirety for so long it’s insane. if chemistry and a coach’s ability to maximize his talent (hell, or even simply avoid minimizing it), you haven’t got a formula for success on any level. “if only we had jerebko! yeah, that’s the ticket!”

5) this game was a sterling example of why nobody outside the pistons organization should even THINK about the playoffs, let alone root for the pistons to get there or even win any games at all. if by some miracle there are seven teams in the east that manage to do a better job tanking than we can (while trying to win, no less), and it’s somehow still a possibility, though i never thought it was very realistic, what’s the point?? on a related note, langlois said that the pistons got unlucky that the team they ran into that was so severely depleted happened to be very deep, but what good is a “lucky” win right now? for this team, momentum is only as good as the time on the schedule before they face a GOOD team. because that’s where it’s going to get halted every time. i get that dumars, kuester, the players and especially ownership would think making the playoffs would be an accomplishment, but fans?? for real? what’s wrong with you people? playoff berths are for teams that either have a chance of competing or can use the momentum while building towards future competitiveness, not for walking disasters who are going nowhere, but happen to stumble ass-backwards into first-round sweeps ONLY because they lucked into a few wins and lost games at a slightly slower clip than the rest of a bad conference. again, not that i ever thought it was a reasonable expectation, but the fact that it’s any fan’s aspiration is beyond my comprehension.

GO PISTONS!

By: nuetes

nuetes — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:53:08 +0000

It turns out we just don’t have all that much talent and aren’t a good basketball team no matter who plays and who doesn’t. but that doesn’t mean we need to keep starting maxiell. it doesn’t mean that we can’t get a monroe/wallace front court. it shouldn’t mean that wallace’s minutes get cut. i’d rather play wilcox than maxiell at this point. we need some rebounds. we need someone active in the front court. we need jerebko. but wilcox, for all his misgivings, is an active player. he may not always be where he’s supposed to be, he seems like he runs around the court like a chicken with his head cutoff, but at least he’s active and you never know what’s going to happen.

ugh. forgive me if my posts are getting less informative but i’m losing my patience with this team. i knew, or suspected, we would be bad, but we might even be worse than i had imagined. what’s going on makes little sense. and with each game comes the realization that the players we have are really bad, and that we don’t have a positive future with any of them.

By: chiballa

chiballa — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 05:09:39 +0000

I dont understand how people could think its Wills fault this team isnt living up to its expectations. They hardly play him. Get rid of the coach!

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By: born 2 be badd

born 2 be badd — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 04:04:47 +0000

John Kuester is a joke and Rodney Stuckey is just plain awful

By: Rodman4Life

Rodman4Life — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:37:32 +0000

man, we suck!