buddha

the NHL likes to move into smaller, fast growing US cities early (see vegas, raleigh, and salt lake). San Antonio/Austin could be a location. but the lure of Houston's massive population may be too strong. Atlanta's population and its MLS success could also come calling. those two cities have been magnets for migration, the nhl could bet that this time it will be different because the population makeup has changed so much.

winnipeg is a strong candidate to relocate again. its just not big enough to support an nhl franchise anymore.

this is a g league game. an embarassment to the league.

what? next thing you know you'll learn to stop hating and love the in season tournament!

almost as bad as our lottery luck.

knowing holmes the way we do, it seems more likely that he would trade up from 29 than trade down. they probably have a limited number of prospects with first round grades and will see if they can trade up to get one if they are the last one left on the list.

i'm fine letting veleno go. bring up kasper.

Kane provides offensive flair that they just dont have. i'd sign him to a reasonable deal. i do think he's fallen off at the end. the real problem is now you start to see the dangers of paying copp and compher to longer term deals. those guys arent going anywhere and they've both turned out to be average players. now there's a bit of a logjam where you could have used that spot - and that money - to bring in a more skilled skater.

graham barton. build the lines.

seider is $8 x $8.5 raymond may have played his way into $7.5 to $8.

veleno is easily replaceable. i wouldnt spend anything on him other than a typical 4th liner interchangeable player.

“We have to assess what’s not working. I’m down to Monty and I talking about rotations. I don’t normally do that. Monty is so good and knows what’s he doing, he’s open to even talking about it. We do have to change something. I can’t tell you what it exactly is. We’re diving in pretty hard. We’re probably two weeks ahead of you guys. Our disappointment is catching up to us too.” dont worry guys, tom gores is on the case. he's talking rotations with monty. does anyone actually think this actually happened? that tom gores actually talked rotations with monty? this is just more stammering bull**** from a fraud who is just talking out of his ass. he's an embarassment to the team. if the league gave a ****, he'd be an embarassment to them as well. unless he says "i have a problem with black people", the league will do nothing.

“Change is coming. I’m just saying that in terms of Monty, Troy, all of that stuff … they will be in place, but I’m all over them. They’ll tell you that too. There’s a lot of accountability that needs to be held. There might be additions to staff and all of that stuff. What’s for sure is that change is coming. We’re not right, right now. We have to add and delete. We’re on it already. We will make changes. We will make them. We don’t know exactly what they’ll be yet.” Gores added that if anyone is to blame for what has happened, it’s him and Weaver. “In terms of how we’re not performing and so on, I think it has to go on Troy and I. It starts there. … We underestimated something. We have seven or eight players who are 22 and under. That’s the makeup of our roster. Maybe we need more playing veterans.” does anyone think this person is a serious nba owner? with a plan for the future? these are the ramblings of a rich guy who thinks he knows better than everyone else because he's rich.

"After the team’s loss to Utah in Detroit on Thursday, fans were heard chanting “sell the team,” loud enough to be heard on the broadcast. Gores said he thought it was ridiculous. “They can say what they want, but that’s ridiculous. Other than winning — and we should win more games — we do a lot in the community. Players, the organization, we do a lot in the community. If you put aside winning, we’ve made a very big difference in the community. That means a lot to me. I understand that’s only going to mean a lot to people if we win, but the underworking of what’s happening and with our community, over all these years, is there. We’re doing multibillion-dollar things outside of (basketball). I understand the fans being upset, but it’s a ridiculous thought,” Gores said." abandon hope all ye who enter here.

the pistons have now clinched the worst record in franchise history.

disappointed that they werent booed off the floor.

that jury was always going to convict. they lost that case in voir dire. they needed multiple strong non-black voices in that jury room. if you want to point to the biggest mistake the prosecution made, it was filing the case in downtown LA county instead of santa monica. if you file that case in santa monica you get a majority white jury, but by filing it in downtown LA you get a majority black jury. that jury had 8 black people and 1 white female. and the white female was a weak personality who was just going to go along with what everyone else did. the gloves didnt matter.

he got off because he was black and the black jurors were not going to convict him. thats it. all the other stuff doesnt really matter. i dont even think their use of furman's past statements on race - which never should have come in - mattered. that jury hated LA cops and the plaintiffs (and the judge) did a great job of mucking it up and making the trial about the LAPD and not about the obvious murderer who was standing right in front of them. if you want to get into the weeds, it was the judge who caved to the pressure. ito let the defense do whatever it liked, it was ridiculous. he was obviously intimidated by the big name attorneys on the other side and his decisions were all slanted to them. the weight of the knowledge that a decision against oj might have started another riot may also have weighed on him, but i think the bigger issue was his being intimidated by the moment and the johnnie cochran's and f lee bailey's of the world.

if they get better next year there is 0 chance they get fired. even if they get marginally better. with that said, i DO expect them to be better simply because it is so hard to be this bad. to do it again would be...borderline amazing. i have a lot of fears with this team. one of them is that they go all in on their cap space for lavine, thus assuring a ceiling of a play in team. then gores will tout it as a success, just like he did when the blake team made the playoffs and for all the great work theyve done in the community.

shame he died before he could find the real killer...

how is this not a thing? this must become a thing.

this thread is all we have left now. 😞

sandin pelikka porn.

i want them to fail because they are bad at their jobs amd if they fail spectacularly they MIGHT get fired. if they get fired, there is a small chance that gores hires someone better. a very small chance, but a chance nonetheless. the current regime has no chance at real success, imo other than winning the lottery next year and getting a transformational player.

i think the same thing. i want him to stay and prosper here. i think he's going to be a really good player. he wont be luka but that's ok, he's still really good. but as much as i like the pistons, i hate seeing incompetent management rewarded. i want to see them fail. i only wosh there waa a way to make gores suffer for his incompetence but there isnt. no matter what happens he turned a $350 million investment into a $3 billion asset.