Comments on: Former Piston Terrico White having impressive Summer League for Clippers

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By: TR

TR — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:18:15 +0000

*White lol

By: TR

TR — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:17:33 +0000

Brandon Knight Alleyhoops to Terrico Knight do sound nice right about now and we don’t have nobody at that position that’s athletic as he was. DANG YOU DUMARS!

By: John Buhcanan

John Buhcanan — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:10:26 +0000

I happen to be and Las Vegas and saw Terrico White come of the Bench and led in scoring for the LA Clippers in on meet. This guy is healthy and he looked great on the floor played great denfense and these guys meet up for summer league and they play ball and most meet there teams 2 days before Summer League …. I think we should give Terrico White another try at his home here in Detriot … Lets be honest before the new owner there was alot of things wrong with our Ball Club because we had no true owner. So Greg “Moose” could us a young gaurd like Terrico White to Relieve pressure when it comes to scoring. He was injured and gone and we never gave him a chance. We let go alot players last season but it didnt improve the team. So lets start young and bring the Terrico White BACK TO DETRIOT ….

By: tarsier

tarsier — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:16:04 +0000

Personally, I think the odds of any given player becoming a successful coach, much less a great coach, are so miniscule that I would never make basketball decisions based on the possibility. But that is an interesting consideration I’d never thought of. And I do recognize that Prince is much better on a good team than a bad one. That is one of the main reasons I was against bringing him back. I don’t anticipate Detroit having a good team soon enough for it to be worthwhile. But who knows, these guys could surprise me yet.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:53:40 +0000

BTW, I had no desire for Dumars to make moves focused on the short term. I was disappointed that he was not willing to make moves sacrificing the short term for the long term.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:57:52 +0000

@Tarsier Also, as far as Prince being a lifer, I believe he is like Joe Dumars in that he can have great value after his playing days. Chris Webber once said Prince has the best basketball IQ of any player he’d ever met. Coach K said during the redeem team that Prince was like another coach and that he’d sub Prince out for any player, at any position, if they weren’t running the plays correctly so they could watch Prince and learn. Prince has always even spoken like a coach: during their great run, they would blow teams out and Prince would always be talking about the little gaps in their play and how they needed to be more consistent. Frank is a young coach and I’m hoping he’s a great longterm fit but in my fantasies, Prince will one day coach the Pistons and perhaps be even more valuable than he ever was as a player. Trade him, and the entire scenario falls to pieces and he might be a great coach for someone else.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:49:16 +0000

Well, on that score, I will say that I thought the Pistons biggest weakness during the first half of last year was how poorly Knight was at even getting the ball across half court and how many unforced turnovers he was committing in general. Gordon handled the ball terribly all year too. Prince was in a bind because only he and Stuckey could be relied on not to turn the ball over. Even Monroe historic rookie season of not turning the ball over proved to be something of a fluke and due to the Pistons running so few plays for him. I've said it before but Prince will look better when the other pieces look better. You don't see it or agree with me but he is being asked to shoulder too much responsibility. He plays the most minutes, handles the ball, runs the offense at times, gets the ball on the block in the post, must take a decent amount of shots since they play so many non-scorers and shooters and is often asked to guard the opposing team's best scorer for long periods and even play some power forward with his spindly frame. As I wrote this list of things he does, I did reflect that over 90 percent of the players in the NBA would never be asked to take on such a long laundry list of consistent responsibility, but hey, Prince is damned good. You can attack his individual stats stats but not his versatility and very, very few players are nearly as complete.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:36:08 +0000

There is something to what you say but there is also something to saying that picks like Durant, Duncan, Jordan, Shaq, etc are the best draft picks because they are the best players. Sam Presti might not even still have his job if he hadn’t drafted Durant and the Thunder might be the worst team in the league right now. It is incredible difficult to project what they would have done if they hadn’t drafted Durant but we see how drafting Durant has worked out for them and supplied the foundation for everything they have done since.
At the point when Dumars drafted Monroe, there was was no young core piece to build around other than Stuckey and his presence did not dictate a certain kind of team or direction. Their future identity was so unclear that there was little point in having a specific long term plan other than trying to acquire pieces to get back in contention. Once they drafted Monroe and he’d played a full year though, it seemed obvious to me that the Pistons had a young core player who was worthy of designing the entire team around. He was so young at the time though that there was no urgency for the Pistons to rush or make any short term moves. As it stands, Dumars has not made any real short term moves since and he has now set himself up to be able to add contracts and money to the roster before being forced to resign any of his young core pieces. Now that is doing great if you like and believe in the young core he now has in place which I do. To me, the biggest factor in why Knight and Drummond were great pickss (and the reason why so many Pistons fans would have made the same ones) is that their potential skills sets are so complimentary for Monroe and Stuckey in particular. They didn’t just represent “best talent available” but most complimentary talent available for the players the Pistons already had and were building around. A lot of teams fail in this regard time and time again but I believe Dumars is showing once again that he understands how to put pieces together to form a cohesive whole.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:52:41 +0000

Great drafting is more like taking Stuckey and Afflalo. Because neither of those were considered the obvious pick who had somehow fallen into Dumars’ lap. But they still represented fantastic value. The Monroe, Knight, and Drummond picks deserve only a sliver more credit than the Durant pick.