Comments on: 3-on-3: Trading Austin Daye

By: frankie d

frankie d — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:57:58 +0000

trading daye to a team like, say, minnesota or okc or any younger team would absolutely be best for daye.
i’d much rather see him reach his potential with the team i root for.

By: frankie d

frankie d — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:45:11 +0000

chris h makes so much sense it is funny that his logic has not appeared to penetrate joe d’s head.
it makes zero sense to trade daye now, unless you are getting a young prospect in return. like hickson or lopez or someone like that.
but to simply dump him? when his value is at its lowest?
i wish someone would explain that.
and simply describing him as “garbage” or “useless” is not explaining how it makes sense to dump a young player.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:19:32 +0000

I agree with Zach Harper here in that there is no need to get rid of him before the trade deadline. It’s been a long season, once Detroit has officially “mailed it in” Play Daye 48 min a game and let Tay rest his body. Put Daye and all of the other trade bait in every beneficial position possible to increase their traade value and then trade, trade, trade. I doubt that there are many players that Detroit is willing to part with that they could get a decent return on prior to the deadline. Wait until the draft see where everyone is picking and see if there is value that you can get there, gms may be more willing to part with a pick if they don’t see anything they preceive as value at their picking position.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:23:57 +0000

Thanks Mark, just posted.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:17:41 +0000

espn insider has a segment about Pistons shopping Daye aggressively. I dont have access but heres a tidbit from it http://hoopshype.com/rumors/tag/detroit_pistons

By: apa8ren9

apa8ren9 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:11:37 +0000

That is ok when you have a 20 yr old rookie, a 21 yr old center and a 25 yr old guard leading your team. Experience is very valuable. They would get a taste of winning and you would think after getting knocked out they would want more.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:06:03 +0000

@Frankie D….You just busted my theory that you actually work for Daye since anyone who works for Daye would welcome a trade.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:59:11 +0000

Anyone and everyone other than Monroe and probably Knight (since Dumars is obsessed still) should be on the list to be traded. Full clean up of the roster will do. I like the way our team has worked the last few times but if you think about it a playoff series is 7 games and how likely is it that we will actually be able to win using the same methods against the same team. I’d say if we somehow manage to get into the playoffs we would get knocked right out immediately without even a chance

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:41:00 +0000

Trade him to the Rockets for Marcus Morris both are not getting time and I think Morris will get time in Detriot..

By: frankie d

frankie d — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:25:40 +0000

trading guys like daye makes no sense for a team in detroit’s position.
they should be trading guys like maxiell and prince and if they are lucky, CV and BG.
those trades would make sense.
but trading one of your more recent first round choices because he’s been in a slump?
as a team that should be acquiring as much talent as possible?
that makes sense?
obviously not, but not much of what joe has done recently makes sense, so i would not be surprised if daye is traded.