Comments on: Ben Wallace puts on a free throw shooting clinic (kind of) in Detroit’s win over Washington

By: Discount Hair Chalk

Discount Hair Chalk — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:41:36 +0000

Along with every thing which seems to be developing inside this subject matter, all your opinions are generally somewhat radical. In any case I did appreciate looking at it.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:40:17 +0000

I don’t think anyone ‘berated’ Monroe. If he’s among the team leaders in minutes and plays about 12 minutes fewer than normal, including getting benched for the entire fourth quarter, that’s something that has to be explained, right? The explanations according to the post-game comments seemed to be, 1. Wallace was playing great; and 2. Frank wasn’t all that thrilled with Monroe’s defensive lapses in the third quarter.

Who is berating? ‘Motor’ has been a knock on Monroe since he was in college. It’s clearly something the Pistons have tried very hard to instill in him, and actually, I think they’ve done a pretty good job of it. He’s been much more consistent as a pro than he was as a college player. But they want him to take the next step as a player, so obviously they are going to push him and hold him accountable to bring the same effort and commitment to defense that he does to offense. Monroe’s a talented and hard-working player. I’m confident he’ll figure it out. But there’s nothing at all wrong with pointing out legitimate instances where he doesn’t measure up defensively, especially when that was the reason he got benched in a game.

By: rick77

rick77 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:23:08 +0000

Im gonna say nothing because I bet he plays and not because you said so but because he is doing the things that the team has asked of him. Period. You like arguing if for no reason than to argue. I love a healthy debate its get the blood flowing. I never said anything other than they know more than you give credit for. I do not see one player that the Pistons drafted thats dominating since we let him go.

By: Coach_Ackley

Coach_Ackley — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:03:05 +0000

vic – I’m not a Henson hatter would love to add him but I hope he adds a little more weight before the NBA Combine which I’m sure he will cuz the 215lbs. that he is ain’t gonna cut it and we all know that.. So maybe the best thing for the Pistons is to draft him and then sign another big for a year or two and let Henson develope his body the right way……

By: tarsier

tarsier — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:03:57 +0000

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of any study that actually shows that players perform much better the next day if they played fewer minutes the previous day? I am skeptical. These guys are in game shape. They put in a ton of hours other than actual games. And they have a whole freaking day to rest up. Would 10 minutes more or less really affect the guy’s play the next day? I mean, we expect a 5-15 minute stint on the bench to allow a player to mostly recover and be able to go back in playing rested again.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:58:26 +0000

in other words, why can’t both monroe and wallace play simultaneously? it is ok to sit both maxiell and jerebko at the same time.

By: gmehl

gmehl — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:56:38 +0000

Having a quick read of all the previous comments i don’t think anyone has factored in Frank benching Monroe because of us playing the Hawks tonight. We are going to need him as much as he give us tonight so yeah he might of got benched due to poor defence but i wouldn’t be surprised if Frank was saving him for the Hawks.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:58:26 +0000

I agree with what you are saying here. You did forget JJ too, though he is pretty outmatched down below. He’s trying. People always seem to forget that running is actually the easy part of basketball. The pounding that bigs take down below is grueling. To compare it’s like a semi truck and a car. They can both drive from point A to point B at speeds that are even comparable, but the semi truck usually doing with a trailer hitched along for the ride. Everytime Monroe gets the ball down low he has to deal with the weight of that other player pushing on him, or a player draped over one side, 3/4 or full fronting him, or being sandwiched inbetween two players. Over a season this long and this compressed I can’t see it an anything other than grueling. I’ve said it before, during this home stretch guys like Monroe and Stuckey should see reduced playing time no matter how well they feel, or how well they are playing. Let Wallace get some good grind, let Maxiel show he has some more value, hell, work some thigns in for Charlie V and Ben Gordan. That nice young core we have, give them some extra rest. Everybody is feeling a little bit dinged up after this long. Let’s give them some rest, and if there is a game that would be a good learning experience for everyone then give the guys who needs the experience more of it.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:41:30 +0000

Dynasty is pretty strong when considering Chris Bosh. Even with Wade and Lebron he still disappears too often, esp on the defensive end. Now I think having both Wallaces would have made him tougher than he is now, but I don’t think we’d be have a dynasty on our hands. We’d probably in the same position we are in now, or in a worse position since Bosh would probably have still left with Lebron to join Wade in MIA. We most likely would not have gotten Monroe either. Given what Detroit has been like for the last few years he probably would have been disgruntled.

By: Youssif

Youssif — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:00:44 +0000

You know what always makes me laugh? How people here love to berate even solid players — you don’t get to Monroe’s level without hard work — for their lack of effort. That I’m posting this at 3 pm (on the west coast) during work shows that clearly not everyone on these threads is a workaholic committed to doing a crazy stellar job. As long as these guys have a good attitude, exhibit solid effort, and perform well at reasonable expectations, how can you fault them?

Just because you see 2.5 hours of these guys 66-82 times per year doesn’t mean you see everything they put in. You see the product of their hard work (or lack thereof in the case of CV.. different story there). Big f*cking deal if they aren’t crazy MJ-esque competitors. How many of us are?

We all have off days and mail it in at times — if we didn’t, this site would be a ghost town. Let’s get off our soap boxes and criticize stupidity (like the Pistons winning their way away from Anthony Davis) instead of lack of our perceptions of players’ effort.

Go Pistons.