Comments on: Vincent Goodwill: Pistons ‘nearly landed’ Chris Kaman at trade deadline

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:26:48 +0000

That’s a pretty poor counter offer to the Pistons…I was expecting deals like this to be put to us, hence as a fan, again I’m more than content that Joe stood pat. And yeah…..sure doesn’t seem like Kaman was ever “close” to coming…poor headline.

By: inigo montoya

inigo montoya — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:04:39 +0000

You’re right. I can’t imagine Kamen getting more than the MLE this summer. Kaman already said he would like to be a Piston, all Detroit has to do is make a reasonable offer.

Still Kaman for B. Gordon + protected 1st round might have been worth it, depending on the protection in the draft order and how many years it was protected. For example, if it was reasonably protected for the next 2 years, it might have been worth it.

Landry for Maxiell + unprotected 1st round, no way. Detroit would have been saving at most $5 million and the unprotected could have been worth much more than that, probably an average value of at least $8 million.

By: Satchel

Satchel — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:27:32 +0000

Isn’t Kaman unrestricted after this season? Would’nt the Pistons be WAY better off losing more games this year, keeping their (still probably) lottery pick and going after Kaman in the offseason/around the draft? Is it feasible they’d have the $$?

By: Dan Feldman

Dan Feldman — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:02:23 +0000

I don’t care whether the information comes in a newspaper, a newspaper’s website or twitter. If the source and/or information is reliable, that’s the only thing important to me. Goodwill is a reliable source.

By: Dan Feldman

Dan Feldman — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:59:15 +0000

At most newspapers, you are correct. I don’t know whether that’s the case at the DetNews. But even if it is, he used the same wording in his tweet that I linked.

But that’s beside the point. I’m not trying to dog Goodwill here. He definitely did a great job of getting the details he got. I appreciate learning those. I’m just ignoring the headline and that tweet as far as things I believe.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:57:17 +0000

The problem is that there is way too much value placed in a “Tweet”. Twitter is not an authorized source. A tweet means nothing!
Tweet that!!!!

By: oats

oats — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:49:32 +0000

That deal is pretty bad for Detroit. I definitely prefer the no deal to making that one.

By: apa8ren9

apa8ren9 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:49:05 +0000

I think to be totally fair to Goodwill and the headlines, Goodwill doesnt get to write his own headlines. So the Editor or whomever has that authority probably wrote that in order to get people to check out the info in the article.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:48:52 +0000

I agree completely, Dan. Another Goodwill article that leaves me dumbfounded. His titles suggest one thing, then gives no evidence whatsoever to support them in the actual article.

All it says is we made 1 offer for Kaman, they countered with a completely different offer not even including Kaman, we declined, and that was the end of the talks.

How that means we nearly landed him, idk.

Maybe there was more negotiations on the Kaman front, but unless Goodwill points those out, him saying we nearly traded for him because of 1 offer is just misleading.