Comments on: Tayshaun Prince’s agent says Pistons won’t trade his client

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:56:20 +0000

It looks like Prince’s agent was wrong.

By: Dan Feldman

Dan Feldman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:33:38 +0000

Ben,

I said I found the signing acceptable, because it’s rarely wise to give up positive assets for no return. That didn’t mean I necessarily wanted the Pistons to keep Prince for the rest of his career.

I’m not saying the Pistons should trade him now. I’m saying they should at least explore trading him now.

Unlike when Prince was a free agent, the Pistons can handle him from a position of strength (though, it appears they’ve deferred that power back to him).

By: frankie d

frankie d — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:22:59 +0000

thing is hickson could hqve been had for a song. heonly signed backwith portland – for cheap, 4 million – after he couldnt get a deal elsewhere. will never understand why dumars runs his roster like he has a team full of all stars instead of just churnimng through young talent – like hickson – till he gets his real squad.

By: Scott Free

Scott Free — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:00:57 +0000

I didn’t mean it that way.

I meant it would look bad trading a veteran on the final few years of an entire career spent in Detroit, having contributed so much to the Pistons and helped seal a championship for Detroit.

I don’t need to remind you how rarely that happens anymore… and honestly, what do you think you could get of value for Tay? Certainly not a starter calibre player, which Detroit needs (and nearly has in Prince).

By: Crispus

Crispus — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:34:10 +0000

I was watching the Blazers and their awful bench and wondering if we could pry Wesley Matthews or maybe JJ Hickson away in exchange for some depth/prospects (JJ, Prince, Maxiell, Daye, Bynum, Stuckey). Matthews would fill our need at SG and Hickson would be a nice upgrade over Maxiell as a third big. We could also break up some of our logjam and get PT for the young guys.

By: MIKEYDE248

MIKEYDE248 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:16:15 +0000

I don’t have a problem with the Pistons not trading Prince or him remaining with the team for the remainder of his playing days. He provied stability on both offense and defense and has been a good role model for the younger players.

My only problem is that he plays way too many minutes and is taking away minutes developing the younger players. Hopefully he will talk to Frank like Stuckey did and suggest coming off the bench and putting one of the youngsters in the starting lineup.

By: piro4pistons

piro4pistons — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:50:23 +0000

Tarsier,
Excellent post! I agree with you wholeheartedly 100%

By: tarsier

tarsier — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:10:40 +0000

I don’t even mean in terms of how good the players turned out. I just mean, at the time, they belonged on the same tier on draft boards. Nobody else from that tier or higher was left. So any of them could have been the right pick. The ONLY reason that Knight was considered the obvious pick, a guy who had inexplicably fallen, was because the Jazz and Raptors (drafting third and fifth respectively) were rumored to reach for a PG in spite of better prospects still being on the board.

Somehow, Pistons fans immediately forgot that when Dumars chose Knight and have continued to forget ever since.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:06:59 +0000

Do you seriously believe that Fisher would solve the problems of the Lakers?

By: Scott Free

Scott Free — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:48:11 +0000

I don’t know, at this point getting rid of Tayshaun would be a little like the Lakers situation with Derek Fisher.