Comments on: Pistons bemoan lack of guards while sticking one at power forward

By: RyanK

RyanK — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:23:32 +0000

Thank god Singler got a hair cut…that freak is hard enough to look at; long hair made him even more of an eye sore.

By: MNM

MNM — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:29:58 +0000

But obtaining Joe Johnsons REDICULOUS contract would keep most teams in perpetual mediocrity.. Just ask Atlanta. The answer was to stop keeping verterans and allowing them to eat up most of the floor minutes to try and win meaningless games that take ping pong balls away from you. But hopefully at this point Brandon Knight becomes what we want and hope were told he can become and Monroe continues to progress and Drummond develops on into something positive and not Kwame Brown-ish.. Teams like this one, because of where we are located are gonna have to rely on the draft to build a good to possibly great team.

By: Erges

Erges — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:45:50 +0000

Daye is a god damn 3. Joe D has to remove prince and everyone else to free space for a la Josh Smith or anybody like him. One great 3 is better than 5 good ones cuzz you can put 4 other guys on the court with him.

By: oats

oats — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:36:45 +0000

Does Frank ask his 2 guards to dribble a lot, or did he just have 2 guards that dribbled a lot so he worked with that? Last year we played Stuckey, Gordon, and Knight at the 2, and all of them put the ball on the floor pretty regularly. Gordon is the obvious jump shooter, but his game is largely predicated on him creating space off the dribble. In fact, a decent portion of what we tried to do with Gordon was have him come off screens to create space, but Gordon often hesitated to take that shot right after the catch. He’d often put the ball on the court long enough for the space created by the screen to disappear, followed by him passing the ball right back. I actually expect to see a lot more catch and shoot stuff this year. I think that’s why Kim English was targeted in this draft. Last year English shot around 50% when he was just spotting up and looking to catch and shoot, and he also took a lot fewer pull up jumpers off the dribble than he had in the past. Add to that the fact that spot up 3s were basically English’s entire offense in Summer League, and I fully expect Detroit’s offense to look very different with English on the court.

As for Daye’s dribbling himself into trouble, I don’t think that was really something he was being asked to do. I think Daye’s lack of confidence in his outside shot led to him trying to do something he wouldn’t normally do in the hopes that he could get a few shorter shots. If he just trusts that his shot will fall eventually then there is no reason Daye can’t spot up while playing shooting guard. Considering the only other thing he does well is post up much shorter defenders, then moving Daye to the 4 actually limits his repertoire. He won’t post up any power forwards, but he can post up a shooting guard he has 5 inches on. While Daye will be a poor defender anywhere on the court, I think his height advantage at shooting guard makes that his best position defensively. I honestly think his best position on either side of the court is the 2, so this power forward business baffles me.

Look at the roster. Just as stretch 4s, Singler and CV are ahead of Daye. For that matter, so is Prince. Maxiell and JJ are also ahead of him at power forward, and if Drummond/Kravstov are good then Monroe will play a large chunk of his minutes there too. At the 2 we have Stuckey, who will probably play quite a bit as a backup point guard. Knight could play the 2, but I doubt we see much of a Bynum/Knight back court so his time there will be when he switches roles with Stuckey. Maggette can play it, but he’ll probably spend most of his time as a backup SF. We also have English. The front court isn’t great, but it seems obvious to me that it would be easier for Daye to crack the rotation as a shooting guard than as a power forward. He has similar issues at 3 the where Prince, Maggette, Singler, and Jerebko are ahead of him. Heck Middleton might be ahead of him at SF as well. I doubt Daye has much of an impact at any position, but shooting guard seems to make the most sense for him as a player and to fill the team’s needs.

By: G

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:25:48 +0000

I agree with all that, except Daye can’t defend the 4 position for obvious reasons. His only real advantage is the height advantage, which means you need to have him guard guys at the 2 and 3 positions and be guarded by those guys. The reality is everybody would be better off if we just moved Daye for an actual 2 guard we could use, but Joe D likes to persist in his mistakes.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:48:09 +0000

Do not start Corey Maggette no where on this team, bad pick up. I say put Stuckey in the backcourt with Knight…check out my NBA picks…http://blackauthor.wordpress.com

By: oats

oats — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:40:46 +0000

It’s been mentioned before, but do you have Adblock enabled? If so, it turns everything red for some weird reason. Adblock should appear on your tool bar. You should be able to click on the little arrow next to the icon and disable Adblock on PistonPowered. That’ll solve the red problem.

By: Vince

Vince — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:57:02 +0000

I’d love to comment on this but my entire page is red… I can read the blue text and the comments bu everything else is just red… quite frustrating. Any tips on how to get rid of it?

By: Crispus

Crispus — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:01:42 +0000

Jared Sullinger looks pretty sassy.

By: bugsygod

bugsygod — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:26:35 +0000

Great Points!