Comments on: Is Joe Dumars messing with Pistons fans?

By: gregjennings85

gregjennings85 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:51:50 +0000

Maybe just our next 1st rounder – that’s a lot to give up.

By: gregjennings85

gregjennings85 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:42:20 +0000

Keeyon Dooling, Earl Boykins, Michael Redd’s $18M expiring deal and our next two first round picks for Rodney Stuckey, Jason Maxiell, and Tayshaun Prince’s $11M expiring deal.

The money works out.

Check it: http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=245uwge

(Or, even better, wait until January, and then trade Brockman instead of Boykins.)

By: sham13ert

sham13ert — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:37:24 +0000

Unfortunately, his plan is/was to stock the roster with versatile players that could play more than one position. Stuckey as the combo, a very long Daye that could operate at the 3 or stretch 4, Villanueva plays like a 3 but is built like a 4, Bynum is a combo, and Jerebko looks like a 3 but hits the boards like a 4.

The problem is that he got away from the mantra that made this team great, defense. It’s ok to go in another direction, but if he played his hand better we wouldn’t be talking about this right now.

Billups would still be running the 1, Prince would still be at the 3, but we could have traded Rip’s expiring contract for a long defensive 2 that could shoot such as Pietrius or Azubuike, or they could have moved Affalo into the starting lineup, or Stuckey could have been the 2.

Dumars miscalculation was that Stuckey was going to step right into the leadership role.

So, let’s all raise a glass to Dumars for thinking that a 22 yo kid could lead Sheed, Rip, and Prince: guys that Pistons fans knew were a-holes, but they were our a-holes, guys that shredded coach after coach after coach.

By: hungrybear22

hungrybear22 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:46:56 +0000

What Dumars did to a perennial championship contender is just atrocious. Hopefully new management’s first move is to fire him. Trading Billups for Iverson, and then blowing all that cap room on two bench players when you already have logjams at their position, then drafting more guys where you have the same logjam instead of addressing needs, I don’t know what his plan is, if he even has any.