I’d rather they didn’t play at all, but who knows. I think offensive rebounds are not getting enough press. We had the second worst offense in the league last year, and our players aren’t all of a sudden going to be hyper-efficient. If we can’t win with quality of shots (BTW, that’s supposed to be the whole idea behind playing slow as molasses), we have to win with quantity. The only ways to push quantity of shots in our favor are forcing turnovers and getting offensive boards. Our D personnel are going going to be winning any awards, while we have exactly the players to make a run at league leading offensive rebound rates.
 
Also, I agree we should start Jerebko at SF. Prince is a crutch, a supposedly skilled veteran who will do his job without complaint or inconsistency. Besides the fact that’s not true, we also utilize him poorly on the court, often throwing away possessions and proper plays in order to get him touches. For an old player with minimal future prospects, every touch he takes in those situations reinforces passive play and uncertain roles for our young guys.

Love this lineup except the part w/ 58 minutes at SF.  Everything else is A okay.  And I think the Pistons could be very good playing with a set rotation like this rather than constantly experimenting and giving none of the players a chance to gain confidence and thereby gain consistency.  Players who think they will be taken off for every mistake can’t focus on the game and are always looking to the bench rather than doing what they need to do.  That is play instinctively and with 100% effort.  I read Keith Langlois’s article on pistons.com and it has me worried.  After 7 preseason games Frank says the rotation is still up in the air.  That likely means another year of experimentation with all sorts of weird lineups, messing up team chemistry.  Take the Minnesota game for example.  The Pistons come to within 3 points after being down 20 plus.  Then Frank brings in the bench.  They fall behind by 10 in a few minutes.  So to teach the bench a lesson, i.e. if u can’t produce there are guys behind u who can, Frank brings in the third string players like Daye, and Kravstov, and the next thing you know the Pistons are trailing by 24 again.  This is the most frustrating thing about Frank.  If the Bench is not producing you discipline them by bringing back some or all of the starters, and not go deeper into the bench.  This lineup experimentation bs has to come to an end.  This will hopefully not continue as KL’s article indicates on pistons.com.  The Pistons can not treat the regular season as the preseason, giving players inconsistent minutes at the first sign of them making mistakes.  They also need a chance to make up for their mistakes.  That is how they develop consistency.  I say start our 5 best players, Knight, Stuckey, Jerebko, Monroe, and Drummond, and let the other bits fall into place after that.  But the best players are the ones that should be setting the tempo, not the other way around.  Prince should go the way of CV & Daye and ride the bench.  Thanks for 2004.  But it is time to move on.

I suppose you fancy yourself a superior authority on such matters, otherwise you’d feel the need to actually, oh I don’t know, support your “argument”. I must have missed the part where Tayshaun was being offered better money and a better role somewhere else when he was a FA. I’m sorry to take this out on you, but this sense of stagnant numbness in favor of actual risk-taking has plagued the culture of this team and it’s just too frustrating to read people defending it from a self-imposed pedestal.