Frank is preaching system system, and Houston just came in and beat our system with talent. We have a potential superstar talent and it’s on the best for the majority of the game. No one else in the league does that. This is a talent league it’s not a high school basketball camp. Talent plays, then you coach after that to get the best out of your talent. I don’t think maxiell has ever hit 19 and 10 even in a preseason. The mentality of the coaching staff and the front office, if it does not change, is a reason for concern… Because   No talented free agent wants to play for a team run by politics or a nerdy system that does not win games.

With the type of talent that Drummond has, he needs a confident and liberating environment. He doesn’t need to be treated like he’s some kind of special needs child brought along slowly. Teach him all you want in practice, but unleash him in the games. Play to win. I’m not even saying he has to start, but he has to play 25 minutes.

FEED THE MONSTER AND THE BEAST. THE MOOSE AND THE BRAHMA BULL. MONROE AND DRUMMOND. 

Who is he going to be better than in the East? Kyrie, Rondo, Rose, Deron Williams? I can’t ever see him getting in that group talent and production-wise. Wall has all the tools to be elite too. Jrue Holiday is far better as a PG than Knight is. I mean, the East is loaded with good point guards. I think Knight can be a very solid player, but I’d be shocked if he ever sniffs an All-Star game.

http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/its_just_sports/2009/02/michael_curry_may_not_be_a_goo.html

And I don’t have photos handy, but Flip Saunders had a tendency to look a little sloppy too. Pistons fans are just spoiled after having years of Chuck Daly being the most stylish coach in the league.

I hate that he bounces back and forth between PG, To SG , to Spot Up 3 point Shooter…

Give him, keep it simple and tell him to attack… over coaching is killing him right now

Cmon!!! PLEASE CONSIDER IT I’ll be the first to Donate 10 Dollars!

Oh man, I wish I knew. I would love to have like 30 beers with Joe Dumars sometime just to hear him explain his reasoning behind some of the moves they’ve made. I don’t even want to do it because I want to see it publicly reported — I would just love to hear a no-spin version of moves he’s made, his reasoning behind them and hear his honest opinion on what went wrong.

But honestly, it’s really hard to gauge. No one has access to the inner-workings of the team and when Dumars does interviews, he almost comically goes out of his way to say nothing of substance to the media. And those who have had a chance to interview him haven’t exactly asked great, detailed questions all the time either.

But here is my best guess at some of your points from an organizational perspective:

“Does he really believe Knight and Stuckey have the talent and chemistry to comprise the backcourt of some contending Pistons team that exists three years from now?”

My hunch is that he doesn’t think that, and that he doesn’t expect it. I’m sure Dumars is smart enough to know that Knight and Stuckey are probably never going to develop into All-Star caliber players. Stuckey is already solid and near his prime and Knight is improving, will probably also be a solid starter/third guard type of player and is a good locker room presence.

Stuckey and Knight are not going to be a starting backcourt on a good team if they’re among your best overall players, as they are right now. But, if Greg Monroe continues to improve, if Andre Drummond is a star, if the Pistons make a significant trade or upgrade in free agency at the small forward position, then yes, its feasible that they could start for a contending team if your 3-4-5 positions are far superior players.

“The decision to re-sign Stuckey seems to indicate this. Is this just the best available backcourt now, or is this the actual long-term plan?”

Signing Stuckey for a reasonable deal (he’s better than DeMar DeRozan, for example, and DeRozan got far more money) is better than the alternative of letting him walk for nothing. I don’t know that Dumars is married to anyone on this team long-term. What he’s doing is collecting enough assets to upgrade talent. Teams that make trades for stars need young players on rookie deals, expiring contracts and draft picks, generally. Right now, he has a ready supply of two of those things and they’ll continue to add more with a lottery pick next season.

The team obviously has to sell this group to fans, and that’s why you see a lot of rhetoric and talk about these guys being cornerstones. Other than Monroe and Drummond, I don’t think anyone on the roster, behind closed doors, is considered a cornerstone. And I actually think that Monroe could even be had in a trade depending on how good the return was. As we’ve seen, though, trades for big time players are pretty rare and they’re usually always complicated, so you can’t send a message to your players that you’d consider shopping any of them in the right deal, or they might not play as hard. You can’t sell that message to fans, either, because they need fans to watch this team, buy merchandise, etc.

I know that Dumars preaches patience, I know that he talks about these guys like they are going to be Pistons starters for a long time, but I generally don’t believe much of it. His track record as a GM suggests he’s not overly sentimental and that he’ll make a trade if he thinks its a good one. I understand the worry — if they really think they have the core of this team established and don’t have to make significant upgrades still, that’s definitely a concern. But more than anything, I think they’re just putting out a PR message and trying to win fans back while they search behind closed doors for ways to improve the roster.