Comments on: Andre Drummond is the Pistons’ best defensive hope, but they barely use him while allowing Knicks to score 121 points

By: Lake Side Live

Lake Side Live — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:33:11 +0000

Look man it’s a factor that writers from the detroit news (vincent goodwill) brought up when talking about how much money the pistons will have this summer, teams do take one year contracts we took maggette’s.

With maxiell leaving like it or not you may need a body to guard against injury and gores may want to just eat 8.6 million dollars.

Theses are just opinions and notice i’m not being a d%ck when i’m giving them.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:51:55 +0000

I don’t actually believe Walker will have a better career than Knight, although it’s possible. But I definitely believe he is ahead of Knight right now, as could reasonably be expected. He spent more years in school and looked less raw as a college player. In fact, I was surprised that he didn’t look far ahead of Knight last year.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:41:46 +0000

After, OUR Pistons loose to Portland, tonight, Phoenix on Wednesday, Memphis on Friday, and Dallas on Saturday, L. Frank should be promptly fired and the next Head Coach hire should be Isiah Thomas.
Zeke would be the best man to coach this ragged group. He would be a great teacher of the nuances of the PG position to B. Knight.
Additionally, Joe should orchestrate the following trade:
Move Maxey, Maggette, and Singler to the Hawks for Josh Smith and Anthony Morrow. Also, move Tay to Portland for a future 1st round pick, heck it can be a pick from 2020.
These trades work financially for all parties:
The Hawks get three players, two that will come off of their books @ $15 million and Danny Ferry gets a Dukie (Singler) that he can add to their roster at a minimal figure of $1 million for the remainder of this season and each of the next two seasons.
The Pistons get a “real” SF that is not afraid of Melo, LeBron, Kevin Durant, or Rudy Gay. Also, WE get a shooter with a sweet jumper, Anthony Morrow.
Moving Tay to Portland will return a future first round pick and provide the Blazers with a veteran player, who can help with their putrid bench production.

By: frankie d

frankie d — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:32:33 +0000

love nate as a coach.
i’ve lived in seattle and portland when he was coaching both teams and i’ve seen most of the games he’s coached both in seattle and portland.
excellent coach, but he is not a coach for a rebuilding team.
he is as bad, or worse, than frank as far as playing young players. in fact, it is the reason he was fired. he simply refused to play younger players and also kept batum on a roller coaster with minutes and his role.
nate just likes the old guys and if you are not a brandon roy or aldridge, he’s probably going to play the vet over any young player.
now, if detroit hires an interim coach for a couple of years, ends up with a fairly young, veteran team as a result of that transition coach, i’d definitely look to nate to get and keep that team at a level where it could contend for a title.
but nate as the coach of a young, rebuilding team.
no…no…no!

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:24:15 +0000

I agree w/Delray313 comment.

Singler is a fundamentally sound player, JR Smith was able to expose Singlers lack of foot speed. I would also note that CV is not a solid defender, but he did benefit from having Drummond on the floor with him. CV made good rotations and closing off the lane this game.

By: frankie d

frankie d — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:54:50 +0000

i think knight will be ok.
i think he will mature into a good/very good/borderline all-star caliber player.
i just don’t think he will ever be as good a “point guard” as a guy like damien lilliard.
i think walker fits into that same category.
why?
their mental approach to the game.
people always rave about what a supposedly smart guy knight is, but this fan has yet to see evidence of that on the BB court. often it looks like knight has checked his brain on the sideline, when he plays.
when a player has that high BB IQ, it is apparent almost immediately. especially with guards who have the ball in their hands. a good coach can definitely help – as happened when chauncey spent a couple years with larry brown – but even in those situations, a coach is typically just smoothing off the rough edges, finishing a product that is ready to shine.
i just don’t see that with knight. what i see with knight is rodney stuckey with a 3 point shot. jason terry, basically. a bigger, slightly slower, less quick tony parker. a nice player, but not a guy who is going to lead a team to a title as a starting PG.
lilliard, on the other hand, has immediately shown that he knows how to play the PG spot and that he has a feel, an understanding of how to play the position that the great PGs have.
i’ve seen most of the blazers games this year and he is amazing to watch. you forget that he is a rookie, as he runs his team like a 10 year vet.
he’ll spend 3 quarters just watching, probing, taking a few shots while setting up other guys and, then, if and when he thinks he needs to, he’ll start looking for his offense. like it is the most natural thing in the world for him. he’s made some late game decisions and moves that only grizzled vets make.
yea, lilliard spent more time in school and that has to help, but i just think that a huge part of the difference is simply the mental approach, his BB IQ, something that isn’t going to really improve with time. either you have it or you don’t.
imho, it is clear that lilliard has that PG mentality, while the jury is out on whether knight ever will get it.

By: Jodi Jezz

Jodi Jezz — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:47:11 +0000

Singler is a bum and shouldn’t be in the starting line-up period…

By: vic

vic — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:10:11 +0000

this team already has a lot of talent it just needs a coach to play the right players, and it needs to move on from Max, CV, Bynum… and less likely Prince.

That will make room for Drummond, English. Then all they need is a backup PF and PASS FIRST DEFENSIVE pg.

Right now I like Michael Carter Williams, he currently leads all pgs in the nation in Assists and Steals and Blocks. He’s not shooting the 3 well, but that’ll come around. Marcus Smart and Nate Wolters are good options too.

As far as PFs, they could get Vernon Macklin back and that would be sufficient.

If they keep tanking they could end up with one of the big name PF/Cs Zeller, Tony Mitchell, Poythress. I like Shabazz too, but I’d take a PF over him.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:33:54 +0000

Hey, where was this rationale when people (I don’t know if you were one of them) were claiming Knight was one of the best rookies last year? Knight may not be getting as many minutes as Walker this season, but he has received a lot more minutes than almost any other rookie/sophomore playing at his level over this season and the last.

And let’s look at the two PGs’ per 36 numbers

Knight: 13/4/7 with half a steal and 4 TOs on 41-42-69 splits
Walker: 17/4/6 with two steals and 2 TOs on 41-21-84 splits

Yeah, Knight has a skill (3 point shooting) that Walker lacks. But Walker still is playing much better. He would just be doing that much better still if he stopped chucking from long range. Furthermore, Walker is one of the two best players on a team with a winning record. Knight is one of the best three to five players on a team that has a better record than only one other team in the league.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:25:33 +0000

I would love to see more of Jerebko (and all the young players in general) and less of Prince, but the fact is, Prince is out-producing Jerebko this season. Jerebko is shooting the ball terribly. Hard to make a case for him to play over Prince when the fact is Prince is just playing better. I don’t blame Frank for that one, either. Any coach would play Prince over Jerebko. It’s Dumars’ fault. If he’d trade Prince and take the decision out of Frank’s hand, he’s be forced to play their younger wing prospects.