buddha

love it. you're at #6 and not likely (god willing) to be therr again for a while. seing for the fences on talent. who are the most gifted players in this draft? jalen carter, will anderson, christian gonzalez.....and anthony richardson. maybe wilson too. go get one of them and worry about "fit" later.

jamaal needs a new agent.

i like the in-season tournament. soccer has been doing it for years. pretty decent incentives for them too. even lebron wouldnt sniff at $500k.

now THATS how you tank! dwayne casey has surpassed erwin rommel as the true master of tank warfare.

this is more like it.

we used to complain every year about the pistons winning meaningless games at the end of the year and costing themselves draft position. come on wings, dont be like the pistons. no one should emulate the pistons.

richardson at 6, bijan at 18, washington and torrence in round 2. ben johnson calling plays! create the greatest running offense in nfl history!

if carter or anderson are available at 6 the lions better draft one of them.

we'll see how they use the portal. illinois basically got an entire new team last year, michigan will have to do the same thing. welcome to the new reality of college basketball.

he's leaving to get paid. i think jett broke this team, lol.

he's undraftable no matter where he plays. might as well see how much another school will pay him to play there.

no.

now he needs to stick.

dammit. they need to lose!

the celtics beat the bucks by 41?

stop getting points!

i see michigan state fans make good actors.

but watson has 230 million guaranteed. so he wants a 300 million contract with 235 million guaranteed? come on now.

the pistons - through their own ridiculous incompetence - are in the position to grab a game changing player. the red wings were only in that position once and the league fucked them.

going back through those drafts there are not a ton of hits for anyone. but most of the hits are first round guys and top of the draft guys. that's why zadina (and to a lesser extent rasmussen) hurt so bad. those guys need to be stars, not third line pluggers, you can find those types anywhere. kasper and edvinsson have to hit. if they do, its going to push the rebuild along quickly. but they still need a pure goal scorer because kasper's stats dont look like that's his forte, i think he looks like larkin or zetterburg (not that he will be them), but more of a mentally tough player who is hard to play against with speed than a goal machine. yzerman seems to like to draft captains and young players who have performed well against men. and big defenseman. for all this talk, this is why they need to tank now! lol. they need a top pick like nobody's business this year.

the draft is a real crap shoot. and zadina's numbers pre-draft were better than i had remembered them, so you were right about that.

when they were 19 years old in the ahl, veleno scored 11 in 54 games and zadina scored 16 in 59. that's not a huge difference. the book on veleno has always been that he peaked physically early, that's why he fell in the draft. perhaps zadina did the same thing considering he went from dominating the u-18s to being pretty good in the u20s, to being a 3rd liner for the national team AND a complete bust for the red wings.

but he's not a pure sniper. he's terrible at shooting. kubalik is a much better sniper. and vrana is much better than both of them. by a fairly wide margin.

if the lions draft an olineman in the first three rounds, nelson is probably on the practice squad.

everyone scores in the q. that would be barely top 10 this year. 16 in the ahl as a 19 year old is ok i guess. both those numbers are similar to joe veleno (42 in the q and 11 in the ahl in less games) who was the last pick in round one. what else? for the SIXTH pick in the draft?