Comments on: Pistons’ defense, Rodney Stuckey head into All-Star break early in loss to Raptors

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:40:28 +0000

Dude, nobody would’ve complained about “only” having 7 years of Melo, Wade, or Bosh. And there is no reason to believe they would’ve bolted anyway if they had good teams around them. But that is neither here nor there. I don’t think teams should tank in terms of not trying to win. But in terms of playing their young guys to develop them at the expense of minutes to vets who may get more wins but aren’t part of the future? Yeah, I’d do that every time. And when you trade for a sure thing, you get a decent player. If you want a great one, you almost always have to draft him. Or give away a boat load for him when he is halfway through his career.

By: shawn brown

shawn brown — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:23:00 +0000

i dont like the idea of tanking to get a chance to pick a player who is unproven at the nba level. there is no such thing as a sure thing when it comes to the nba draft. for every MJ and lebron james there is also a darko and a sam bowie. once we know what pick we are going to get if we can find a willing trade partner id package the pick to get a proven player, thats just my take. i mean everyone this year is going on about davis but remember we picked greg monroe at 8 and brandon knight at 7 i believe, so you dont always need to draft at 1 to get a good player. the core of this team is monroe, knight, stuckey and JJ. find players to complement them and not just go with the big names. remember joe d has had a much better time picking later in the draft then sooner anyhow. BTW everyone who says we should ve picked carmelo and d – whine (wade) over darko is forgetting that they would ve bolted for brighter lights when their contracts were up. joe d flipped darko for stuckey and even though rodney isnt a star , he is a decent player, something darko isnt.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:08:29 +0000

Only 4 games in the next 15 days. That should help a bit. Plus rising stars, I guess.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:05:44 +0000

and the wins were against new jersey, sacramento, new orleans. teams detroit isn’t in reverse competition with?

By: vic

vic — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:33:58 +0000

whats good is that even though we won a few games, our losses to washington, Toronto, cleveland… those losses were especially good for our lotto chances, because they were teams we are in reverse competition with

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:30:51 +0000

Too bad these last two. By my calculations the Stones are about to go about 2-15 after the break with a pretty brutal road schedule. Anyway that should guarantee we get back those lottery balls we lost in the last 10 games!

By: Talan

Talan — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:38:05 +0000

He runs like he is 7 foot five 300lbs. Seriously awkward run, really short strides like he is afraid he’ll fall over.

By: frankie d

frankie d — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:04:07 +0000

when he gets tired his legs get shaky like a boxer who is about to go down. it is usually pretty obvious that he’s gassed. that supposedly was an issue in college and i’m surprised that he hasn’t addressed it by this point.
the team desperately needs him to be able to play hard for 35-38 minutes a game. when he hedges out on a pick and roll, he almost never hustles back to the lane to pick up his man. at first i thought he just had really slow feet, but then it was obvious that he just wasn’t putting the effort into it.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:51:08 +0000

Yeah, it has definitely been an issue for him all season. He motions to come out of games quite a bit.

By: frankie d

frankie d — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:41:30 +0000

i thought he looked gassed by the 3rd quarter.
he definitely looked like he was reserving his energy for the offensive end.
when he got hit for that flagrant foul by bayless, that seemed to energize him and he played with a bit more energy on both ends. but he still put out much more energy on the offensive end. i think he scored about 16 points after that flagrant foul.
he definitely needs to work on his conditioning as there have been several other games where he looked gassed fairly early in the game.