http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/02/not-everyone-is-tuning-out-john-kuester/ Your Go-To Source For Pistons Coverage Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/02/not-everyone-is-tuning-out-john-kuester/comment-page-1/#comment-22144 Tim Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:03:35 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/?p=4888#comment-22144 I wouldn't mind having Prince back either. But it would have to be on a favorable contract (maybe $7M/year). Otherwise he just becomes another big contract clogging the rotation. I agree wholeheartedly with Dumars' principle of accumulating assets. But on a bad contract, a player is a negative asset. On a good contract (mostly superstars and rookie scales, but occasional smart deals like Sefolosha or the 04 Pistons' Billups and Wallace), they are postive assets. The fact of the matter is that the Pistons have a ton of decent players on cheap deals. If it wasn't for all their horrible contracts clogging the books, they could go after a couple max deal or near max deal players and build a heck of a team. But Prince, Hamilton, Maxiell, Gordon, Villanueva, and Wilcox prevented that last year. And all of those except Wilcox and Prince will again this summer. Although, maybe Wilcox shouldn't be included in that list because if they didn't have Maxiell and Villanueva, his contract would not have seemed clogging. I wouldn’t mind having Prince back either. But it would have to be on a favorable contract (maybe $7M/year). Otherwise he just becomes another big contract clogging the rotation. I agree wholeheartedly with Dumars’ principle of accumulating assets. But on a bad contract, a player is a negative asset. On a good contract (mostly superstars and rookie scales, but occasional smart deals like Sefolosha or the 04 Pistons’ Billups and Wallace), they are postive assets. The fact of the matter is that the Pistons have a ton of decent players on cheap deals. If it wasn’t for all their horrible contracts clogging the books, they could go after a couple max deal or near max deal players and build a heck of a team. But Prince, Hamilton, Maxiell, Gordon, Villanueva, and Wilcox prevented that last year. And all of those except Wilcox and Prince will again this summer. Although, maybe Wilcox shouldn’t be included in that list because if they didn’t have Maxiell and Villanueva, his contract would not have seemed clogging.

]]> http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/02/not-everyone-is-tuning-out-john-kuester/comment-page-1/#comment-22132 Steve K Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:46:34 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/?p=4888#comment-22132 I know I'm in the minority here, but I wouldn't mind having Prince return next season. He's shown strong character this season, playing hard despite no hope for the future.   He's a smart player who's shown a willingness to lead. Isn't that the type of player they want to build around? If he's traded, is there any chance they'd get anything close to equal value in return? I sincerely doubt it.   I'd be much more in favor of trading Stuckey. I know I’m in the minority here, but I wouldn’t mind having Prince return next season. He’s shown strong character this season, playing hard despite no hope for the future.
 
He’s a smart player who’s shown a willingness to lead. Isn’t that the type of player they want to build around? If he’s traded, is there any chance they’d get anything close to equal value in return? I sincerely doubt it.
 
I’d be much more in favor of trading Stuckey.

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