Comments on: New York Times: Greg Monroe one of five ‘players to watch’ this season

By: G

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:06:43 +0000

The term is “homeless man’s KD”, per the Sports Guy.

By: Scott Free

Scott Free — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:28:56 +0000

Had that happened we may never have got Monroe, Knight, or Drummond.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:06:40 +0000

how has lawson exceeded expectations exactly?

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:01:04 +0000

I was happy when we ended up with Austin Daye because at least we didn’t end up with BJ Mullens. But I would’ve been much happier with Eric Maynor, Jrue Holiday, Ty Lawson, Darren Collison or Taj Gibson. Taking Daye was an obvious reach even at the time and now it appears to be a gamble that hasn’t paid off.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:13:05 +0000

There are 25 comments on this thread as I type this. I’ve responded to three, and only one of those responses has been argumentative.

By: danny

danny — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:08:27 +0000

I was not defending it I’m just saying its easy to say something else after we know what they are capable of in the nba. didnt adam morrison do amazing things in college? Just because they played good in college doesnt mean much in the nba. JJ reddick that is who I was thinking about.
PS calm down patrick you dont have to try to argue with every comment.

By: labatts

labatts — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:43:34 +0000

“I will refrain from commenting on the fact that the Pistons could have two of those players if they’d just taken Lawson instead of Austin Daye.”

Thanks for refraining. =)

By: XstreamINsanity

XstreamINsanity — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:40:23 +0000

Please explain your logic. The only thing I could think you’re referring to is Lawson would make us a better team and we wouldn’t have been in the lottery that year, but that’s a stretch to me. That team that got us in the lottery to get Monroe was a complete and utter mess. With Lawson instead of Daye, Stuckey still would have more than likely been the starting PG because we still had Rip and Gordon at the time, and I doubt they’d have sit Rodney in favor of Lawson. So I still think we would have ended up in the Lottery. Would we have sucked the following year to get Knight, I don’t know, maybe. And the jury is still out on Drummond yet, so we’ll see. But if we could have Lawson instead of Daye, I’d have gone for it then and now.

By: labatts

labatts — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:39:43 +0000

I hear ya, but what that really means is: if you took a good player, you wouldn’t get this other good player. Better to draft the bad player so we can get the good player.

You still only get one good player, just later.

By: labatts

labatts — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:36:22 +0000

They actually drafted four. They traded away the red-headed kid (you know, WHatshisname)