Comments on: Ranking teams’ 25-and-under players

By: Saul

Saul — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:34:19 +0000

Ownership played a big part in the Pistons’ lack of assets too remmeber. Joe D couldn’t make trades. That doesn’t excuse Bg and C-Vill signings just saying his hands were tied a lot.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:23:11 +0000

Tarsier-

Clearly sarcasm by Jezz there.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:27:32 +0000

The Pistons minutes last year were not dominated by the young guys as you imply. Yeah Stuckey and Monroe played a lot but that’s about it. Not to mention that 7 games out of the playoffs in the east is pretty unimpressive.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:53:05 +0000

Horford has been complaining about Atlanta’s lack of a center for the past few years. But certainly sometimes people get way too caught up in positions and stuff.

By: Jodi Jezz

Jodi Jezz — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:39:44 +0000

This list is bogus…Our group of young guys were 7 games out of the playoffs last season…We should be ranked higher than 9…

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Thursday Bolts – 10.6.11 | Daily Thunder.com — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:27:55 +0000

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By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:35:09 +0000

What does everyone have against Horford at C? He may have played PF in college, but he is big and strong enough to single cover every C in the league save Howard, he puts up C-esque numbers, his dimensions are comparable to most Cs, and he is in the group of arguably the second best C in the league along with Bynum, Bogut, and Nene.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:31:42 +0000

Reasonably efficient is vague and debatable. I recognize that. So I will reword. Stuckey is objectively more efficient than Beasley. He doesn’t shoot threes at as high a rate but he is a guard who has a 1% lower fg%, 11% better ft% and gets to the line a lot more. As is Stuckey’s fta/fga = .46, Beasley’s = .23. And I don’t even know which has a higher ceiling but they are both real long shots at ever reaching that ceiling. I honestly believe their values are very comparable.

Also, they call each other to mind because they both have the awkward and unnecessary “e” in their names that I always have to stop for moment to remember whether it’s there or not.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:21:44 +0000

I agree but the doesn’t change the fact that after two years of total suckage, this team’s prospects are not nearly so bleak at this point as you seem to imply they still are.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:59:38 +0000

@JJ:

I agree with you that Hayward isn't that good, but his skillset, like Ryan points out, is really different than Carroll. The only think Carroll can do is shoot. Hayward is actually not a great perimeter shooter and he wasn't even in college. His ceiling is more of an all-around type player. I think the Jazz would be thrilled if he could become the type of bruising wing Matt Harpring was for them.

And Dorell Wright has actually become reasonably good. The Jazz would be thrilled if Hayward became anywhere near as good as Wright has become. He's a decent defensive player, it just hasn't show in GS because the team collectively is so poor defensively, but Wright is a nice piece.