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what's the pistons' rotation in the playoffs?  who sits?

Just now, Betrayer said:

Where are all the people on here who didn’t think Daniss could hold down the backup PG minutes? 😁

he is totally dominating the knicks bench in a 30 point game.  😉

but seriously, he looks good tonight for sure.

1 minute ago, Deleterious said:

Two big wins against the Knicks without Duren. 

knicks also without half their starting lineup.

where's huerter?

mike brown looks confused.

i guess that's normal considering there is a basketball game going on.

caris has made three good plays in a row.  what is happening?

the knicks arent even close to making a shot.  one brick or air ball after another.  some wide open.

i turn this game on in time to see caris get cooked by JOSH HART.  he is so bad.

cade, otoh, is so very very good.

If skubal leaves i'll still root for him unless he goes to Boston or the White Sox, twins or indians.  Then he can rot in hell.

bu assuming he's a good person and wouldnt sully himself with the filth of those franchises and their repulsive fans, i'll pull for him.

kind of like stafford.  i'm glad he won an mvp and a super bowl if the lions couldnt win.  i'll root for skubal to do well and will always consider him a tiger.

but i do expect him to leave after this year, and i'm happy the tigers finally did something to bring him some extra help.  now let's hope the tigers are in position to add a difference maker at the deadline this year and actually do it.

knicks injury report:

Karl Anthony-Towns: Frightened

is cade/duren/ausar a championship core?

49 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

But other teams would also lose guys to free agency after the same 3 years. So yes, we could have lost several players but a huge pool of replacements would be available. At a huge cost, much more expensive, but out there to sign.

if there is a huge pool of players every year, the price per player will be lower.

the superstars will get paid and most other people wont.

9 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Not the biggest Jenkins fan.  But I'll take him over Ball 10 times out of 10.

Ball shoots 30% from the field and 27% from three. Jenkins shoots 38% from three.  Jenkins has similar assist numbers on less minutes.  Neither is worth mentioning on defense. 

Lonzo is a bigger guard with experience.  you dont have to cut jenkins.  cut bobi or somebody equally as worthless at the end of the bench.  the pistons arent going 13 deep in the playoffs.

30 minutes ago, AlaskanTigersFan said:

The point I am making is these smaller market teams won't be able to keep a lot of their players past year 3.... If their superstar rookies are getting paid $30 mil+ 3 years into their MLB life, how will the small markets do that? You mock about the 97 win Brewers.... Imagine if they didn't have Freddy Peralta, Chuorio, Miz, Uribe, Vaughn, Turang, Durbin..... You think they win 97? Hell no. These small market teams can't and won't recover from this .......

 

 

 

(Yes I understand Chuorio has a long term deal but I'm pointing out that if he knows he can make $35mil+ after 3 years, he wouldn't of signed that deal ...... This is strictly for example purposes to prove the point.)

how am i mocking the 97 win brewers?  i'm holding up the 97 win small market brewers as an example of how the sky is not falling and small market teams can compete when they are run well, and that big market teams who spend money are often disasters, like the angels.

12 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

One team is not an argument for the system though. Any team might have a run of draft picks that hit, trades where a a throw-in becomes a star, whatever - basically has a lot of stuff go right and ends up competitive a few seasons - for instance the Tigers incredible pitching health in 2006. That fact that can happen doesn't mean the system isn't highly biased, it only proves its not impossibly biased. Not much of a bar.

sure, and throwing out the sad sack pirates as an example of how smaller markets cant compete is not an argument that the system must be changed.  move to nashville if you cant compete in pittsburgh.  times change.

rays, royals, brewers, indians, tigers, padres, twins.  all have competed and won lots of games.  more games than many well heeled organizations.

yes, you have smaller margins for error.  yes, you need to be better.

i think that's ok.  use the tools you have to your advantage.  some organizations do it well.  other organizations turn into the angels.

again, i dont need to have every team spending the exact same amount of money, or to prevent teams from spending money in order to enjoy the game.  

parity is boring.  why should the tigers have tarik skubal for life?  why should the pirates get paul skeenes for eternity?  because they were awful the year he was availble for them to "draft" and then immensely UNDERPAY for the next seven or eight years?  

nyah.  the pirates have plenty of advantages when it comes to the modern game, the fact that they cant sign 30 year old outfielders, or re-sign one of the best talents in the game after having him for 1/3 to 1/2 of his career for next to nothing is not a problem, imo.

27 minutes ago, AlaskanTigersFan said:

I have no idea how you think this after today's deal. How will this work for small market clubs like the Brewers, Pirates and Rays who pump out good players? They will HAVE to trade their players after three years of MLB service time.... They won't get six years.....

Take the Pirates for example. Three years from now, Skenese will be making $40-50/year, Jared Jones will be making $30-40, Bubba Chandler will be making $20-30 million per year. Throw in Konnor Griffin making $30+ million a year.... That's $120 ON THE LOW END for this club three years from now for four players! 

Today's ruling just effectively killed the possibility of a smooth conversation for a clean CBA negotiation next year. The owners will DEMAND a Salary Cap after today. A lot of teams won't be able to afford this if every 5-year stud starts making $30 mil+. I'm glad Skubal got paid what he did. He deserves it. But today's ruling just hurt baseball.... and it hurt it deep. I'll be amazed if the owners don't lockout next year w/o a salary cap. They won't even come to the table until the players say that they will at least listen to something on that. 

Enjoy baseball. Cuz after this year, it's going to be a looooooooong time until you see another MLB game...... 

yeah who knows, the poor brewers might just have to go out and win 97 games again like last year.

HOW WILL THE POOR BREWERS COMPETE?????

sign lonzo.

i dont know who is more upset that washington won this game, detroit or washington.

beaten at home by a team TRYING TO LOSE, and duren gets hurt.

this is the basketball gods smacking trajan langdon for sitting on his ass at the trade deadline.

ive been in insurance claims for 15 years, the plaintiff's bar is its own circle of hell.

3 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

How many ambulance chasing lawyers do we need in this state? 

its like that in every state.  😞

the pistons are reminding me of the lions a bit.  "we're not going to add talent because we're good with our culture and our people.  next man up!"

it was hubris for the lions.  the pistons seem to be preaching patience and are saving their coin to extend ausar and duren (and i wouldnt be surprised if they pay tobias too).  but sometimes falling in love with your own talent instead of adding outside talent is just as bad as making a gamble trade for short term improvement.

you have the best record in a weak eastern conference, why not add someone who could potentially take you over the top?  you never know what the future is, cade could sprain his ankle or have a calf sprain next year.  look at orlando's season this year.  strike while the iron is hot.

i keep seeing all these useful backup point guards going into trade exceptions for middling second round picks or nothing prospects and all i can think of is "are we really refusing to upgrade our backup point guard because of daniss jenkins"?  

you can call me a hater all you - because its true - but i'd feel a lot better with a more proven commodity backing up cade against a team that is trying on defense in the playoffs.

17 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Are the Clippers going to move Kawhi?  

what would you give up for kwahi to detroit?

3 hours ago, oblong said:

I think it's fair to assume that having Boras as an agent and being a player rep that we do have some inisght.  He's talked about the business side and having a responsibility.  This arbitration hearing doesn't affect what he'll get as a free agent.  The Tigers offer to him and to Valdez have nothing to do with each other, other than general budgetary reasons.  But they aren't making a statement about what they value or think they are "worth".

 

i think youre making a lot of assumptions based on very little evidence.  the same thing i do when i say it might matter to him.  i have no idea what skubal thinks.

skubal wins.  good, he deserves the money.