Comments on: Tayshaun Prince, unseen and overrated http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/ Your Go-To Source For Pistons Coverage Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:55:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Patrick Hayes http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-37436 Patrick Hayes Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:23:23 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/#comment-37436 <p>I'm the people's champion, it's all love here.</p> <p>I don't judge him harshly. He's a fine player for a good team looking for a fourth or fifth starter or sixth man who can play a variety of roles. He's one of the smartest players in the league. But I'm not with all of this giving certain players passes stuff. Every Piston fan has a pet, it seems. Rodney Stuckey would totally be fine if the team played him at shooting guard. Ben Gordon would be awesome if Rip Hamilton were gone. Rip Hamilton would be awesome if Ben Gordon were gone and they made Rip player-coach so he could let himself shoot 25 times a game. Charlie Villanueva would be amazing if the team just gave in and let him never tread inside the 3-point line on offense or defense.</p> <p>I'm just tired of it all man. No more excuses for players, coaches or GMs. No more elaborate defenses of players who "just haven't been used properly." You know what "not used properly" now means as far as PP is concerned? It means they are not that good. Prince fits into that category. He's an average player. He was miscast in a role as the team's go-to scorer. He wasn't the biggest malcontent on the team, but he was also far from someone who acted professionally all the time. He's not a useless player, but he's useless to the Pistons as they rebuild and it's time for him to move on.</p> I’m the people’s champion, it’s all love here.

I don’t judge him harshly. He’s a fine player for a good team looking for a fourth or fifth starter or sixth man who can play a variety of roles. He’s one of the smartest players in the league. But I’m not with all of this giving certain players passes stuff. Every Piston fan has a pet, it seems. Rodney Stuckey would totally be fine if the team played him at shooting guard. Ben Gordon would be awesome if Rip Hamilton were gone. Rip Hamilton would be awesome if Ben Gordon were gone and they made Rip player-coach so he could let himself shoot 25 times a game. Charlie Villanueva would be amazing if the team just gave in and let him never tread inside the 3-point line on offense or defense.

I’m just tired of it all man. No more excuses for players, coaches or GMs. No more elaborate defenses of players who “just haven’t been used properly.” You know what “not used properly” now means as far as PP is concerned? It means they are not that good. Prince fits into that category. He’s an average player. He was miscast in a role as the team’s go-to scorer. He wasn’t the biggest malcontent on the team, but he was also far from someone who acted professionally all the time. He’s not a useless player, but he’s useless to the Pistons as they rebuild and it’s time for him to move on.

]]> By: Laser http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-37434 Laser Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:10:10 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/#comment-37434 no, you should not have added that. no, you should not have added that.

]]> By: Laser http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-37433 Laser Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:09:02 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/#comment-37433 naw, playa. be right. remember who your friends are here.   tough to judge any individual piston too harshly since dumars raped the team to death circa '08. aside from maybe stuckey (who's had the ball in his hands like he wanted since he got here, having a team shaped around him in the process, and proven nothing) and charlie (who had all the talent and opportunity anybody could ever ask for and squandered it). nearly everybody has underperformed, and nobody's been asked to pick up more slack than tayshaun. he's supposed to be a third or fourth offensive option, do a little of everything type of glue guy. i think he's done an admirable job at the very least, given the state of the team and what's been asked of him. naw, playa. be right. remember who your friends are here.
 
tough to judge any individual piston too harshly since dumars raped the team to death circa ’08. aside from maybe stuckey (who’s had the ball in his hands like he wanted since he got here, having a team shaped around him in the process, and proven nothing) and charlie (who had all the talent and opportunity anybody could ever ask for and squandered it). nearly everybody has underperformed, and nobody’s been asked to pick up more slack than tayshaun. he’s supposed to be a third or fourth offensive option, do a little of everything type of glue guy. i think he’s done an admirable job at the very least, given the state of the team and what’s been asked of him.

]]> By: Patrick Hayes http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-37432 Patrick Hayes Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:07:03 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/#comment-37432 <p>Oh, and I should add to the description -- bristles when playing less than like 35 minutes a game and part of a locker room faction of veteran players that essentially shunned the young players for two years. You can't put a price on those intangibles.</p> Oh, and I should add to the description — bristles when playing less than like 35 minutes a game and part of a locker room faction of veteran players that essentially shunned the young players for two years. You can’t put a price on those intangibles.

]]> By: Patrick Hayes http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-37430 Patrick Hayes Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:53:59 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/#comment-37430 <p>Doesn't get to the free throw line, only effective last year when dominating the ball for entire possessions, steadily declining defense for three or more years, aging ...</p> <p>Laser : Tayshaun Prince :: Jodi Jezz : Ben Gordon </p> Doesn’t get to the free throw line, only effective last year when dominating the ball for entire possessions, steadily declining defense for three or more years, aging …

Laser : Tayshaun Prince :: Jodi Jezz : Ben Gordon

]]> By: Laser http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-37428 Laser Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:48:25 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/12/tayshaun-prince-unseen-and-overrated/#comment-37428 yes. perfect. incredibly versatile, high basketball IQ, plays solid defense, makes good decisions with the basketball, scores in a thousand different ways, emerged as a clutch go-to scorer last season. he's garbage. great assessment. yes. perfect. incredibly versatile, high basketball IQ, plays solid defense, makes good decisions with the basketball, scores in a thousand different ways, emerged as a clutch go-to scorer last season. he’s garbage. great assessment.

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