Comments on: 3-on-3: Joe Dumars’ drafting

By: Dan Feldman

Dan Feldman — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:26:18 +0000

“Okur was a great pick, but he walked for absolutely nothing because Joe picked Rasheed over him. In hindsight, this was a bad move.”

If the goal is championship or bust, I guess hindsight says re-signing Sheed was a mistake. Maybe Okur doesn’t win another title, but at least there’s a chance.

I just don’t think the goal is championship or bust. Under Sheed, the Pistons won a lot of games, advanced deep in the playoffs and sold a lot of tickets. I doubt they would have accomplished more with Okur.

By: Dan Feldman

Dan Feldman — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:15:08 +0000

“a guy with narcolepsy?
a guy who had been kicked off almost every team he’d ever played on?”

The logic, as I understood it, was the Sharpe’s narcolepsy had gone undiagnosed for most of his life and caused many of his problems. Properly diagnosed and treated, Sharpe would theoretically move past his troubles and become a productive player. Obviously, it didn’t work out that way.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:11:45 +0000

Delfino never stays healthy throughout a full season and Prince has only missed signifigant games in one season. I hate players who get injured though Kandor has resurrected some of them in Det.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:23:03 +0000

You can call it hubris if you want but I just think it’s Pistons culture. How many players since Davidson bought the team asked out and weren’t accommodated rapidly? I can’t think of any and the Billups trade was definitely at least partially about accommodating his declared desire to finish his career in Denver.

By: apa8ren9

apa8ren9 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:31:09 +0000

My bad, that came of kind of snarky as I read it again. Just reminiscing.

By: apa8ren9

apa8ren9 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:29:37 +0000

It wasnt a bad move. It was an obvious choice because the Pistons werent going to pay Rasheed 10+ million and pay his backup 10+ million with Ben still there. That’s not how they do business, plus they just won the championship and they made it back to the finals and lost in game 7. End of story.

By: apa8ren9

apa8ren9 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:04:59 +0000

my response was agreeing with @tarsier about Delfino

By: apa8ren9

apa8ren9 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:03:00 +0000

I agree with you about Delfino. All you need to know about Delfino and whether or not we made the right move with him was told in that game 7 in the playoffs against Atlanta when they had chance after chance after chance to score 1 bucket and couldnt do it. If he couldnt come up big there then what makes him a player that we need to fret over. We need players that will come up big in big spots. He didnt get to show that in Detroit but he had his chance in Milwaukee and came up empty. Delfino is just another player, not a building block or major piece to a championship team.

By: frankie d

frankie d — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:36 +0000

i agree wholeheartedly about delfino.
definitely one of the most underrated all around players in the league.
when he was with detroit, he was the only piston who could guard wade.
will never forget a game the year miami won the title. detroit had basically owned miami, seemed to have a real psychological advantage on them, going back years. delfino had come into the game and done a great job on wade, basically guarded him one on one and kept him under control.
then flip did what he always did and brought his starters in, sitting down the bench guys like delfino, and wade got off. scored something like 14 or 15 straight points in the last 5 minutes of the game, to help give miami a 2 point win. that game was, imho, almost directly responsible for miami winning the title that year, as they won 15 of the next 16 games and had so much confidence as a result of that win.
delfino proved then that he had incredible defensive versatility.
even now, when milwaukee faces a hot wing scorer, during the course of the game, they will try to cool him off by putting delfino on him.
one of joe d’s worst moves.
i also recall when he was traded to toronto. the reason given was that he wanted to be traded, and joe responded that he was glad to accomodate him.
that is called hubris.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:23:19 +0000

Joe should trade the 2012 1st round pick to the T-Wolves for Derrick Williams. Then WE can say that Joe has been a good drafter.