Comments on: The Big Answer?: Joe Dumars

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 12 May 2011 07:49:48 +0000

The Villanueva signing was not a bad one. He basically got a rotation big man that score from all over the floor for 7 mil a year. I think that’s reasonable. Ben Gordon is a stud score but wasn’t worth 11 a year. i had problem with that signing. especially when we needed bigs way more than we needed guards back then. The billups trade was a bad one. the non trade back then would have been a better move. sheed, dice and another player would have came off the books the next year clearing about 17 mil that summer. which would have got us Cv and maybe tyson chandler and maybe brandon bass. Thats a playoff calibre set of young bigs if not a championshp calibre one

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:54:48 +0000

If Tom Gore and his ownership group will step back and allow Joe D to do the job they are paying him to do then this team will become a winner again with in two seasons. Because of the lack of movement with coach Q I’m beging to wonder if Joe D is still handcuffed to ownerships check book?

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By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:14:03 +0000

I would give Dumars some time to try to turn things around. But my biggest concern with him isn’t his track record. Like most GMs, it’s pretty mixed and just happens to have more negatives recently and more positives further back. It’s his approach. I don’t know what’s really going on his head, but according to all his interviews with Langlois, he always seems committed to improving the team both for the present and the future and not sacrificing one for the other. That approach can work if you get really lucky in the form of either getting a superstar or two or making deals with another GM of Isaiah Thomas’ caliber. But with 29 other GMs also trying to improve, you usually have to pick one: now or later. If he will just choose one of those and go for broke, I will be happy. But if he keeps on trying to do both, the Pistons will just continue doing their best Charlotte Bobcats impression. And that’s a crappy place for any franchise to be.