Comments on: Pistons lose to Heat, and that’s OK

By: I HATE FRANK

I HATE FRANK — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:39:34 +0000

I think you guys are hyping Porter up a bit to much

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:39:24 +0000

You’re not in the category of commenters like Brandon Knight. As someone else pointed out, even if I or others argue with you, you do make reasonable attempts to back up what you say with facts or data. The annoying, unreadable comments are from the people who make no attempt to do those things and just rant.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:38:04 +0000

Frank, as G noted, has received poor grades in wins.

Honestly, the infatuation with blaming Frank for every single thing wrong with this team is obnoxious in the comments here. He’s a run of the mill below average coach. The NBA is FULL of them. And in fact, the Pistons have had two coaches worse than him in recent years.

Frank — and any coach — are essentially graded on four things from my perspective – Was there a noticeable gameplan? Was said gameplan a good one or bad one? How did he manage the rotation? Did he make necessary in-game adjustments?

In the Miami game, he did all of those things pretty well with a depleted roster against the best team in the league. The team vastly exceeded my expectations in this game, and Frank certainly deserves credit for that.

I get it. You dislike him and want him fired. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try and evaluate him semi-objectively on a game to game basis just like I try to do with every player on the roster.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:30:40 +0000

I still like Harris as a late lottery option. But I think he’s probably (though continued strong tourney play could change this) more likely to stay another year and I’d put him a notch below those three you mentioned. I would take him over Shabazz though.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:29:27 +0000

Robinson III is more likely to come out in 2014, but DraftExpress considers him a lottery pick. If he came out this year, he’d merit consideration late in the lottery for sure, even if he has been pretty wildly inconsistent.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:17:59 +0000

I like Oladipo, but, as an older player, he has less room to grow than some other prospects. That drops him from my first tier (McLemore and Porter) to my second tier (Noel, Bennet, and Oladipo).

By: tarsier

tarsier — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:14:58 +0000

I so wish George was a FA this summer. He is the guy I would LOVE for the Pistons to get. A perfect fit for the current mix of guys.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:12:02 +0000

Not Harris anymore?

By: qm_22

qm_22 — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:22:43 +0000

Well, I get that you got as far as the first sentence by your lack of a point, since it responded to an imaginary criticism I didn’t write. Singler’s defense on LeBron wasn’t the problem. He constantly fumbles plays.
He gets targeted frequently when he’s on defense though, since you brought it up. If you go beyond the Heat game you see guys set up their half-court by letting Singler’s man attack, and it usually works. Pretty sure he’s on the scouting report as a liability. Singler is the only guy I’ve seen routinely set picks for the other team and has the ability to rotate defensively that I doubt is D-league level.
He makes a lot of crappy mistakes which hurt his team and don’t show on the box score. E.g., hesitating on pass to the point it allows the defense to recover and anticipate and putting the receiver in an awkward position. His bumbling incompetence breaks up plays. On offense, too, he seems to be on the scouting report. Last night they were helping off Singler, leaving him open. That is how we began a lot of our half-court sets last night. Go to the 3 point line and pass to the open Singler.
Singler is the first Piston I’ve seen getting Michael Curry comparisons for his inability to get benched by bad play.

By: G

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:34:03 +0000

“Quality” being the operative word… Watch the textual diarrhea, homey. I got “Singler’s getting graded too high-blahblahblahblahblah”

Here’s why Singler gets cred – he played the better D on LeBron than anyone else on the team is capable of, he actually shot the ball well, and he rebounded well. If you’re upset because he can’t break guys down off the dribble or something, c’mon. He’s a limited player, but he’s been playing well inside himself, and he had a good game last night. He’s NOT this team’s problem.