Comments on: Greg Monroe, Rodney Stuckey lead dominant team victory over Bobcats

By: zachb

zachb — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:09:42 +0000

@tarsier, idk if ur comment about high character draft picks was sarcastic or not, but i think joe d does pick quality high character players. honestly i dont understand why there is a big joe d witch hunt, sure we suck, but people forget all the good years. also noticed that many comments talked about the bobcats and how we shouldnt get excited. my comments were not about this win, i recognive it was the BOBCATS, just saw the forum as a good chance to express my thoughts with like minded fans. heres to hoping we get back to the top soon!

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:25:28 +0000

Nobody thinks you become a good team in one year. It takes several high picks usually. But getting rid of veteran talent and stocking up on youngsters to develop together can be a winning formula. It is basically exactly what the Thunder did.

That is why I wanted the Pistons to do something similar. Not because it would make for one lousy year and then contention, but because three lousy years in (like we are at now), we could have the players of a contending team who just need one or two more years to get older and better. As things currently stand, the Pistons are only maybe halfway there. Was winning 10-15 more games each year worth dragging out the process for twice as many years?

Understand that I’m not claiming to know that the Pistons would have lost 10-15 more games each year had they taken an approach like Charlotte nor do I claim to know that the rebuild process would really take half as many years. Those are just rough estimates I am throwing out as an explanation of why many of us fans do wish for such an approach.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:16:05 +0000

How do you know Hornets, Bobcats, or Wizards will win the lottery?

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:14:48 +0000

every team has to be lucky to get top two, even the worst team in the league has only about a 50% shot at landing in the top two.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:13:32 +0000

“just hope he goes for another high character player”

like everyone he has ever apparently drafted?

By: apa8ren9

apa8ren9 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:35:13 +0000

Well the Bobcats are bad and we beat them like we were supposed to. They are playing all of their rookies and they are just terrible. A problem ive had with some of the posters here is that you want the Pistons to do what the Bobcats are doing and that is just counter productive. They are tanking on purpose, playing only young players, traded all of their tangible assets away and Micheal Jordan just doesnt care right now about his on court product. And then some how magically people think IF you get the number one pick it just magically all goes away and you become a good team in one year. Good win, this erases the stench of the Philly loss.

By: neutes

neutes — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:10:00 +0000

I just don’t know what to make of this. The Bobcats are really bad; the Pistons looked good. The Bobcats just aren’t really bad either though, they have a -14.33 point differential. They right now would go down as the 2nd worst team in the history of the NBA. That’s bad.

Monroe was awesome though. And without Biyombo they had nobody to protect the rim. Diaw can’t even jump. Stuckey and Knight could drive to the hoop at will. It was almost like watching the Pistons try to defend the rim, only the Bobcats guards don’t drive or create pressure so it didn’t matter.

By: gmehl1977

gmehl1977 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:12:42 +0000

I wouldn't be sad if they put Monroe and Knight one ice with a dozen or so games left in the season. Call it 2 steps back to take 3 steps forward if yo must. Davis is going to the Bobcats, Wizards or Hornets so if Drummond doesn't declare then I think we should take Barnes in the 1st round and Fab Melo in the 2nd if he lasts that long. If all the good bigs are gone then maybe we could see if Milwaukee would trade us Bogut for a combo players and our 1st rounder. I know he hasn't been healthy since his dunk injury but Bogut would be a nice fit next to Monroe and would allow him to play the PF. C-Bogut PF-Monroe SF-Prince SG-Stuckey PG-Knight. Add a good perimeter defender (Trevor Ariza type player) and we start looking more like the Detroit Pistons of old.

By: Daye and Knight

Daye and Knight — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:45:13 +0000

Yea not gonna lie, I saw we were up against the bobcats and was like hell…no…I’m not watching this garbage lol good win but no way I’m getting excited over it or talking about this is a sign of things to come, not yet. We’re still destined to end up with a lottery pick that falls between the 5-7 range so it’ll be at least a few more year until we can make some noise in this league

By: gmehl1977

gmehl1977 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:35:28 +0000

Its hard to get exited about beating the Bobcats. Maybe this game will get Prince going after an inconsistent 1st half of t he season.