I think that a large percentage of Piston’s fans are really pissed off and want a writer to tear into the team, management, players… they want someone to help them vent their frustrations. What team is going to pay someone to do that? It’d be silly. I do sometimes wonder why the Detroit newspapers aren’t more critical but I don’t have that question with Langois.

Also the coverage we get as Piston’s fans is so much better than the coverage a lot of other teams fans get both on pistons.com and here at Piston Powered. I used to live in Portland and sometimes read Portland Roundball Society and their coverage is crap. They had a guy in the Olympics this summer and made some big moves and there was very little written about it. So with that perspective I feel very lucky to have the information sources we do have.

“I would feel comfortable (with the status quo), but it’s something we’re trying to address, as well,” Dumars said. “We continue to look to shuffle one or two spots on our roster to give it more balance.”

Has is that ‘all but announcing’ that there’s another trade coming? How is that statement in any way different than any message Dumars has put out over the last three years? Please explain to me your reasoning that they’ve all but guaranteed another trade is going to happen.

I would agree if you said that a trade makes sense or that they have an imbalanced roster and could use more guard depth. But those things are far, far cries from the organization saying something will definitely happen. They have the same stance they always have, and over the last three years or so, that stance has led to exactly one trade.