Comments on: Lawrence Frank would like everyone to shutup about lottery balls

By: Haan

Haan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:45:33 +0000

Frank’s right for himself and the players, but fans should still hope for a bad record along with development of young players. It’s Joe who should be designing the team for the longterm, which includes losing in the present. Still can’t get over him reportedly turning down a first rounder for Prince. Resigning Prince for 4 years??? Allowing Ben Wallace to block Macklin? Beyond Joe, Gores should have approved of amnesting Gordon (or maybe Villanuena). The roster can be directed towards the future without undercutting the efforts of the coach and players to win now once that roster is determined. So Frank’s right, but he’s also wrong.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:19:15 +0000

BTW, I removed the comment you are responding to. Sorry I didn't notice it and get it taken down sooner.

And, for the group as a whole, there is a lot of freedom for passionate back and forth here, and honestly we get a ton of great comments/discussion down here. But as a general rule, the only thing that will get a comment of yours removed is a personal attack/name calling directed at someone else. Attack the argument, not the arguer.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:17:03 +0000

Mr. Ackley:

Had to remove a comment of yours. Feel free to argue vigorously, but refrain from making personal attacks on other posters, please.

By: Coach_Ackley

Coach_Ackley — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:16:28 +0000

And futher more Team USA played well cuz the SUPERSTARS they had on it and coach K not the other ppl you mentioned k. Coach K is one of the best coaches around that coaches defense…

By: frankie d

frankie d — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:56:09 +0000

yea, i watched the boston game.
and except for one or two games where i had trouble with my feed, i’ve watched every game this year. both those games i listened to, on nba radio.
obviously, you don’t know how the nba works.
and what works in the nba is getting as bad as you can and getting one of the top draft choices so that you can get a franchise player.
in fact, the draft lottery is a specific response to the fact that teams were doing it so obviously that the league’s integrity was starting to suffer.
now, it still goes on – see san antonio and tim duncan, cleveland and lebron – but the lottery makes it much more difficult to pull off.
great to know that you’ll take meaningless wins over getting a franchise player. for better or worse, most nba teams don’t follow that warped illogic.

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:29:13 +0000

I don’t know how this discussion got hijacked into pointless talk about Javale McGee but I’m completely ignoring all of that mess.

I think that Lawrence Frank is working out well and helping this team rebuild an identity that 1) fans can live with and 2) will allow the team to compete in the NBA. I’m glad we finally have a real coach here and I know it’s already helping us attract free agents (Greg Monroe and Brandon Knight won’t be on rookie contracts forever).

As for the focus on lottery balls I don’t really agree with him. Maybe I should say I agree but I see a much bigger picture meaning he’s right that not competing is pathetic and would lead to bad things but given all of that we really, really, really, really need help in this up coming draft. We need not one but two high picks and every lose helps in that regard.

So I would love to see some of the guys who have no future with us traded for pennies on the dollar if that’ll bring back picks. Dumping guys like Ben Gordon, Charlie Villanueva, Austin Daye also clears their spot on the roster and forces the coach to play the guys with a future. So in order to help his coach and team in the future Joe Dumars should be working to make life difficult for them right now.

But whatever we do please no McGee.

By: curriergroh

curriergroh — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:39:46 +0000

Did you watch the Boston game?
If you did then you know that something different is starting to happen.
It was the first time in a long time that PIS-TONS BAS-KET-BALL felt the way it used to.
I’ll take that over draft position all day, and I give a lot of the credit to Frank.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:22:32 +0000

Excellent call.

Max’s value will never be higher.
If Joe’s smart, he’s working the phones. With a Maxiell trade (for a pick), the Pistons clear $5M off next year’s cap. With the amnesty of CV, that’s $13M total. They’d only have $28M in committed salaries next season.

I know cap space doesn’t breed success, but it certainly offers more flexibility for a rebuilding team.

By: Melvin

Melvin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:33:23 +0000

Only 5 gamebacks of 7th and 8th seed

By: Lottery

Lottery — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:43:55 +0000

So nice……….