Comments on: Kyle Singler, Andre Drummond make David Thorpe’s ‘Rookie Watch’ for ESPN

By: tarsier

tarsier — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:24:02 +0000

It is a small sample size but 14th in the league in PER, 13th in rebound rate, and 8th in TS% (which accounts for free throws!) is ridiculous. Heck, the man is top 60 on EWA in spite of playing 15 mpg for a zero win team.

By: David

David — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:47:27 +0000

that sample size is way too small to be useful. right now kyle lowry and jimmer fredette are ranked 2 and 4 in PER in the league. Jason Smith and Anthony Morrow are in the top 10. And yes, Drummond is ranked 14. That’s just not going to stay like that.

Drummond is for real, I’m fully on board. But he’s not going to end the season in the top 20 in PER.

By: vic

vic — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:40:46 +0000

Look at this chart at the end of this link.
Andre Drummond has one of the highest PERs for the lowest average minutes in the league.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/miamiheat/post/_/id/15796/lebron-james

By: MIKEYDE248

MIKEYDE248 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:04:49 +0000

We did see them throw new contracts at Prince & Stuckey. Let’s hope they don’t think that because Max is playing well right now, that he deserves a new contract.

By: D_S_V

D_S_V — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:55:28 +0000

I really, really, reallllllllyyyyyyy hope a Maxiell trade is in the Pistons’ future. It makes too much sense – he’s been one of a few bright spots in this so far winless season, and if he can net the team an asset they can use in the future rather than letting him walk for nothing, pull the trigger! Joe D needs to be sending Maxiell mix tapes to all contending teams. He can’t really be planning on handing Max a new multi year contract this offseason.

Wait… Oh please, no…

By: Biff

Biff — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:49:15 +0000

Who cares about wins on a team like this? Best case scenario is they fail into a top 2 pick, broom the garbage off the roster in the offseason and start fresh next year.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:28:59 +0000

To be fair to Frank, he does know that locker room better than the spectators, so, if he thinks that Andre should be brought along slowly then this makes sense because I must assume that he doesn’t want to lose the respect of the players. However, part of me can’t help but wonder if this is some rerun of Rudy playing in Frank’s head. Where he’s trying to reward effort and merrit at the expence of talent and the future.

By: MIKEYDE248

MIKEYDE248 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:06:38 +0000

Why is it that it seems like everyone that watches Drummond thinks he should be playing more minutes except Frank? Hopefully they are playing Max to showcase him for a trade. Although he has been playing pretty good lately, he will never have the upside that Drummond does.