Comments on: Pistons – shocker – lose again

By: Mrshourite

Mrshourite — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:37:49 +0000

Classic!

By: piston moribund

piston moribund — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:58:54 +0000

True story. Was watching the game with my wife(very rare). She asked me who the awkward tall guy was who seemed a bit uncoordinated was. I told her that was suppose to be the best player on the team, Bullwinkle. Then she asked me why he was being dominated by another tall white guy who could barely jump, I told her that’s because Bogut use to be really good before he was injured?!? But now he is not quite as good as he use to be and can only manage a 4 in vertical leap. I shrug, realized what I had just said and I turned the TV off and went to bed.

By: G

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:31:24 +0000

Who’s Burks?

By: G

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:29:50 +0000

I said he was good, not great. He got a ‘B’, which is a good, not great grade. A great game for Bynum would be 20+ points and at least 8 assists, or a game when his points + assists = 28 or more. He’s had 4 of those games so far, by the way. The way the team as a whole played, guy has to put out a spectacular effort to earn an ‘A’.

If it makes you feel any better, Bynum would probably own less than 1% of the pie if we were using my sh– pie graphic instead of grades.

By: oats

oats — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:04:00 +0000

Just for clarity, DraftExpress isn’t factoring in team need but Chad Ford is. I’m guessing you know that though. I actually really like Bennet, just not nearly as much as Porter or even Oladipo for Detroit. As far as I can tell Ford has Detroit’s board being McLemore, Porter, Oladipo, Muhammad, Bennet, Harris, and Len. Marcus Smart and Nerlens Noel are functionally not on the board because there is no way Detroit can get them and not have Porter or McLemore on the board as well. As far as I can tell Ford wouldn’t have Detroit take Bennet with a top 6 pick because someone higher on their board is always there. Honestly, that feels about right.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:02:27 +0000

Agreed here. no sense in trading Monroe unless it turns out he and Drummond aren’t as incredibly compatible as their skill sets make it look like they should be.

And, if trading Monroe, the payout better be a whole heck of a lot better than Aldridge. Aldridge is pretty comparable to Jefferson or Millsap, who could be had in FA without giving up anything more than cap space.

By: Huddy

Huddy — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:53:39 +0000

Preference may be an unfair term as I do not know Stuckey personally. His production at PG with the Pistons has been horrible, having the ball in his hands does not increase his terrible percentage finishing at the rim or passing ability. But like last night’s production shows he has ability to be a scoring SG when he isn’t running the PG. I don’t like him at any position because of how inefficient he is, but standing in the corner and running off screens is not some bizarre basketball mandate for the SG position. Plenty of players are allowed to isolate and drive from positions other than the PG. Not sure you are a supporter of him or whatever but regardless of his personal preference he has proven to not shine at any position really.

By: GEORGIO

GEORGIO — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:37:22 +0000

I’m afraid that’s NOT his preference, his preference was backup PG not SG or SF. He wants the ball in his hands not running off screens or standing in the corner waiting for a shot.

By: oats

oats — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:14:17 +0000

Sorry, but it’s absurd to say Knight has only had a single year at the point. Last year was a 66 game season, or only 16 short of a full season. Throw in another 48 games at point guard this year and we are looking at 114 games at the point, which is much closer to 1 and a half seasons than just one. Despite having nearly a full year at the point last year he made exactly no progress from year one to year two. What’s more, he still passes how he did in college. We’ve got a decent amount of evidence to suggest that Knight is not a starting point guard and won’t be by next season. Even if we are dead set on making Knight into a point guard, handing him the starting job is not the only way to do it. Why not make him the second team point guard behind Calderon? You can even start him at the 2 and then juggle his minutes so that he is spending about half his time there and half his time playing point guard with the second team. If we do that then we won’t muddle our ability to judge the Monroe/Drummond front court due to bad point guard play.

Personally I think Knight is clearly not a point guard. His skill set seems to be a better fit at the 2. Becoming a good shooting guard requires fine tuning his existing skill set while playing point guard requires him to add a skill set that clearly does not come naturally to him. One of those is much easier than the other. But again, playing him at the 2 doesn’t keep him from running the second team offense. You don’t have to make him the starter at the point to not give up on him there.

By: Tom Y.

Tom Y. — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:59:25 +0000

Great data. Calderon is limited because he’s a little slower and less athletic than many guys, but he still often does a surprisingly good job on D. He certainly tries hard. And the offensive numbers are amazing – especially considering he hasn’t even had Drummond to throw lobs to yet.