Comments on: Rodney Stuckey continues to impress at point guard

By: Red Panda

Red Panda — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:53:31 +0000

Sorry Steve Kays, I stole that bio/tagline from you, but I guess if you plagiarized it I can too!

By: Red Panda

Red Panda — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:40:26 +0000

Like most red pandas, I’m a Detroit Pistons fan who doesn’t actually believe other sports exist.

By: Red Panda

Red Panda — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:05:38 +0000

A red panda : bloodthirsty killing :: Steve Kays : obvious plagiarizing

By: Red Panda

Red Panda — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:46:55 +0000

Mike Payne : Steve Kays :: Neil Kinnock : Joe Biden

Who plagiarizes a biography? Weak!

By: Red Panda

Red Panda — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:41:58 +0000

Steve Kays is an NBA addict, writer, podcaster, and Detroit Pistons fan who doesn't actually believe other sports exist.

By: The Point Forward » Posts Court Vision: The latest around the league «

The Point Forward » Posts Court Vision: The latest around the league « — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:58:56 +0000

[...] • Hey! The Pistons have discovered, again, that they have a talented young guard to whom they might want to give the ball once in a while! Welcome back to prominence, Rodney Stuckey. [...]

By: gordbrown

gordbrown — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:17:33 +0000

The one thing that’s been missing in the discussion of Stuckey remains … if you evaluate a point guard based on assists, then you are not just evaluating a point guards ability to distribute but also the ability of his team mates to finish. Suddenly Stuckey is a better point guard, but he’s also not having to carry three pieces of offensive dead weight on his shoulders (Hamilton, Wallace and Maxiel). I think surround Stuckey with athletes who can catch the damn ball and let them run and you’ll be surprised by how much better he suddenly looks. Having said that, Hamilton has gotten into the spirit by trying to run more in the last few games as well. As has been the case for years, nothing good ever happens when he does this however.

By: neutes

neutes — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:02:08 +0000

Stuckey already fooled me once, twice, and ten more times. How many articles analyzing some 4-5 game stretch in Stuckey’s career have their been? How many comparisons and projections can you make on one player, especially one 4 years into his career? I’ll believe it when I see it. Same for CV. Dude comes to play once every 10 games. Everyone sees all this potential when players go off for a night or two but we have way too many inconsistent players. Too many jump shooters. Too many guys that don’t do the dirty work.

I don’t care much about the record. The 7th-10th pick is pretty much guaranteed, although that 7th pick gives the best odds of winning the lottery. I would like to see guys play well…and maintain it game in game out to end the season. That would probably be more enjoyable.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:15:08 +0000

I agree that there should be more incentive to win. But I think a large chunk of it is that the more you win, typically the more fans go to games which increases profit. As for a reward in the lottery, I’ve always thought that the lottery should go through all 14 picks. So you still have odds to get a higher pick if you have a worse record, but any lottery team could end up in any draft position. It would make the lottery more exciting and diminish the value of tanking. But rewarding say the team that comes in 9th would defeat the point of the lottery redistributing talent by upping the odds of the worst teams. It is up to the GMs to concentrate on building for the present or the future and not get stuck in between.

By: Steve Kays

Steve Kays — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:53:33 +0000

@Jeremy
No doubt. I’m not advocating all-out tanking, but that is the struggle in the NBA. It’s always nice to win, but not if it gets your team stuck in that 33-37 win range. That’s no mans land in the league – too few wins to make the playoffs, and too many to get a high draft pick.
Monroe has been great this year, but Detroit was lucky Golden State took Udoh at #6 and that Monroe fell to #7.
The Pistons won three of their last few games last season, which cost them lottery balls, which may have cost them DeMarcus Cousins. It would be bad to go through this dismal season and end up with the #9 pick in an already weak draft.