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How to Fix the Rotations for Game 2 (alternate title: Things JB Won't Do) PG - Cade 38 min or more (Daniss 10 min - I don't need him on the court with Cade) SG - Duncan 30 min (Huerter 18 min) SF - Ausar 35 min (Green 13 min - corner threes and defensive disruption) PF - Harris 28 min (see Center rotation) C - Duren 28 min (Stew 25 min and Reed 15 min backing up PF and C positions) DNP: LaVert, Holland, Sasser. Backup PF/C Logic: I want to see Stew and/or Reed eat up all the backup PF minutes. They're better equipped to guard Paolo, help us match Orlando's size, get offensive rebounds, and play defense. What about Ron? Their only perimeter threat is Bane and Ausar can match his minutes. After that we just need to match up with their size. Plus, Holland makes a lot of mistakes you can't have in the playoffs and I trust Stew/Reed to space better even as bad as they are at it. Pairings - Typically you have a set of starters come out early and when they come back in, the other set sits. That way you have some starters in at all times. For that strategy I'm pairing up Ausar + Harris to come out earlier and then come back in when Cade + Duren sit. That gives Cade more time with Duren who relies on Cade for offense and more time with Green who can hit all those corner threes Tobias missed last game. It also gives Ausar more time with Stew who doesn't always clog the paint like Duren. And when Daniss comes in he'll have Harris and Ausar with him so he can defer to them and doesn't have to play hero ball. There, rotations are solved. Now someone send this to JB.

That’s what I was implying with Flaherty, too. If he’s done done as some insist, who starts in his place who’s going to be better for sure? Keider is already up. Who else is there? I think Flaherty’s history is such that he’s earned at least five more starts to show he can be at least good in more games than he’s bad. It’s a low bar but to Lee’s point, there are too many pitchers and not enough pitching.

Rob Deer was better than conventional wisdom portrays him.

You can never have too much pitching. <ducks>

We’ve come a long way from reflexively putting the crap batter who can bunt the best in the two-hole.

Yes. From Fox 2.

Maybe he’s off doing a MAC spring football game for a Tubi pop-up channel.

I sent it to him. Unfortunately, he said the Thompson minutes will not work out. He mentioned a turnover Ausar had during a scrimmage in training camp, and he needs to be benched for the 4th quarter of game #2.

I know, I like when Dave quizzes ex-players about their own careers like this.

You're all going to feel silly when Brady Cleveland makes the team and beats up the entire league

In preparation for tonight's game—or maybe not—here's a fun interview of Dan Petry in FanGraphs.

Saying the quiet part out loud

I don't believe these reports that come out in the days prior to the draft. Hopefully the Lions did their homework on him and know what the severity of the injury is. Because we already have our chronically injured CB spot filled.

Brad's antenna just went up.

that's the meanest thing you've ever said to me. 😞

As an amusing sidenote, since Christmas I've read the Pistons forum consistently but don't know enough to contribute. But for the past couple of months I've been thinking to myself, that Buddha, does he really need to be so skeptical about Duren and the Pistons' offense beyond Cade and how play will tighten up in the playoffs. And then Game 1 hit, ha. Maybe Buddha really is a wise man ...

Going to see Alice Cooper tonight in Toledo.

because he's rich and tired of being in an organization whose goal is to make the play in every year.

Well, I'm sure Eisenhower et.al., were happier the Soviets were bashing heads with the Nazis as well. You don't need to make friends but allies can be helpful.

give kat the ball in the 4th quarter in crunch time and watch how fast he gives it back to brunson.

LOL, he deliberately misled people for profit. He is probably getting ready for a presidential run.

How about this instead of those awful Blue road jerseys

To quote Jim Price: Nice area. We routinely play the VGSL. They have nicer fields for each level than we do. The number of teams allows them to play more internal scrimmages than we can too.

Never knew that!

Vienna, but not town of

Does Duren have a family member in the media?

Nobody can develop enough of them. There are 30 teams and 13 pitchers per staff. That's 390 pitchers and a third of them will get injured during the year. That's a lot of elite arms.

I blame Avila.

I don't like them either. They are very little league-looking. Can we just go back to the button up version of these?

This is awesome. Kocur hadn’t gotten re-signed and was playing in a beer league in Detroit. Chicago came to town and he talked to Probert after. Said next time you come to Detroit, rough them up a bit so they think about needing an enforcer. Probert did. Bowman called Kocur the next day and told him to go to minor league camp and get in shape. He did and they signed him. Next time Chicago was in town he and Probert fought. They were down on the ice and Kocur told him hey thanks a lot.

Been on a heavy Glen Campbell and Willie Nelson kick lately. Man, those dudes were talented as bleep.