Charlie V averaged more than 16 PPG in 26 minutes for Milwaukee, BG…, Stuckey and JJ both appear lost out there these days and Will Bynum is allowed to go ball hogging in turnover land for no apparent reason.  Brandon Knight has regressed significantly in scoring and turnovers and continues to do so right when we need fewer turnovers and more scoring.  And BTW someone should tell Brandon Knight that increasing assists is NOT good if large increases in turnovers goes with it.

Frank is playing a 10 man rotation when there are not 10 players that deserve minutes no matter how bad they play.  

To paraphrase, Frank recently rhetorically asked in response to a question from the press “What are we going to do with Will B if Stuckey plays backup point?”, right after Will B had a 1/6 shooting night with 4 turnovers or so… wow, Frank should know the answer to that question and NOT put it out there in the press that he doesn’t know the answer.  Bench Will Bynum until the ball hog can create assists without massive turnover numbers.  Wil B learns best from the a good benching… he has proven that over the years.  

Stuckey can produce 15 points per 32 minutes and will share the ball given the right guidance and coaching. 

And on the subject of Andre Drummond…So this is how you bring a talented young big along?  Teach him how to lose and put him on the floor with players that probably won’t be in the league in a year or two and who’s only interest or BB IQ appears to be in padding there scoring statistics?  

This is how you CAREFULLY, SLOOOWLY bring the young man along?  MY GOD JIM ARE YOU INSANE? (Star Trek quote seemed appropriate).  So, No matter how well Andre plays his time on the floor only can go DOWN if he does something wrong.  The kid scored 22 points in about 24 minutes against OKC and the next game the coach yanked him after 5 minutes…

If Dumars and Frank are doing what they are doing to show case the older guys for the trade deadline, they both should be fired.  That will not work, there is not a veteran starter in the bunch.

By not playing their second round picks this year, and not playing there free agent Ctrl-V Euro Big this year (we’ll see), the Pistons have tacitly admitted those were mistakes too.  Even if they were long shots you expect to hit once or twice with them.  You would expect more than 2 good draft choices out of ALL THE MOVE MADE IN THE LAST 6 YEARS.  Joe D’s record on BB moves is as bad as Rodney Stuckey’s first 23 shots this season… Wow.   And Stuckey drought lasted 2 weeks not 6 YEARS.

Dumars knows he is treading on this ice with Gore, and if Frank is Gore’s guy as stated elsewhere (Joe better hope so)…  Obviously Frank is on a very short leash (as he should be) especially if there is anybody out there in the bushes that has the skill.  Sure would be nice to see Bill L leading this team…

We won’t even talk about the Millic draft… Sir Joe will have eternity to live that one down.  Or the AI for Chauncey move, we’ll just act like that never happened.  

Maybe Joe D is afraid that Bill Lambeer would succeed…  and Joe would have to deal with a coach that demands excellence from everyone on the team even the GM.  Well Tom Gore could do that right now.  Start with eliminating L Frank… and lets go from there.  The stands will only get emptier otherwise – speaking of wise – Tom Gore had better get up on his BB IQ quick or get someone very close to him that is.  This languishing near the bottom of the Eastern Conference has gotten old and can’t be good for the $$$ value of the team… Tommy… Tommy, come on out and play.

The beginning of the season is the time to play your young guys, as the vet teams aren’t settled in yet, and no one is familiar with the rookies, so you can get wins early catching teams by surprise.

No one was surprised by Maxiell and Tayshaun. The Pistons basically made it easy on opponents by starting the season with the same below avg lineup as last year, that every team in the league had already figured out. 

I thought we could be 5-5, 6-4 after 10 games too, had we started Drummond from day one, and actually used the good shooters we acquired like English and Middleton.