Comments on: ESPN: The Pistons have the ninth best emerging ‘big three’ in the league

By: TANNER

TANNER — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:58:05 +0000

sorry meant to said now that he playing his true postion. lol..!!!

By: TANNER

TANNER — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:55:48 +0000

they have not forgot stuckey, he still in the mix. they just talking all the new guys thats showing some promise. We know what stuckey can do,not that he playing his true postion with a full season with kight we will see some good things. Kim is a good sg also back court is good.

By: James Jones

James Jones — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:39:28 +0000

For a SG Stuckey is severely lacking a high quality jump shot IMO. I’ll be surprised if Stuckey is still around after his contract expires.

By: Daye and Knight

Daye and Knight — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:35:03 +0000

It’s FUTURE big 3…FUTURE as in 2016. It’s an assumption that Knight and Drummond become good enough players paired with Monroe to make us a playoff team by that time. Besides this, what other media out there says that we have a big three? I certainly haven’t seen any suggesting we have a big three NOW future wise I seen maybe a few but none suggesting we have one NOW

By: @GPMasters

@GPMasters — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:55:13 +0000

Everything these days is so much more positive around us… Almost makes the past three years less painful…

By: jake

jake — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:13:06 +0000

you don’t honestly believe that anderson is going to be nearly as effective without dwight howard do you…

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:59:56 +0000

Great comments by tarsier and Desolation Row.

I also think that Rodney Stuckey is getting sort of lost in the media shuffle. I expect that he’ll change that once the season starts and hopefully in a good way. He’s always wanting to run so I wonder if we will this year? We seem to have the athletes for it for the first time in a long time.

By: Mike Payne

Mike Payne — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:58:55 +0000

“Don’t tell me its Ryan Anderson and he qualifies as a Big 3? LOL”

One could make the case that Ryan Anderson was one of the ten most productive big men in 2011-12 if the audience wasn’t full of muppet-humping republicans.

By: Mike Payne

Mike Payne — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:54:29 +0000

Every time the media equates Brandon Knight (and now Andre Drummond) with Greg Monroe, I gore myself with a rusty spoon. How can that be a big three when only one of those players has done any got damn thing in the NBA that is remotely above average?

All sports writers need their contracts amnestied.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:10:53 +0000

In today’s NBA, 31 is usually on the tail end of prime, not yet past prime. Millsap is a fantastic player. So he’s undersized? He works so hard and plays so well that he makes up for it. He’s not going to ever be an alpha dog for a great team. But he could be one of the league’s best second fiddles. It is way too soon to tell how Favors will turn out. He belongs in the same camp as Drummond and Bynum–guys taken for potential but who will need a few years before determining how much of said potential they can realize.

If Granger doesn’t qualify as a star, how do Knight, Evans, and whoever the third guy in LAC is?

Obviously most teams won’t have a three proper stars. But the article is just comparing who are being predicted to be the three best players on any given team.

To be honest, referring to OKC’s “big three” is a real insult to Ibaka. At this point, he contributes at least as much as Harden and not much less than Westbrook. In fact, they should probably have a big 5 if you also include Harden’s beard–which was somehow drawing several fouls in the playoffs when Harden himself was untouched.