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  1. Betrayer
    Shams reporting that Detroit is parting ways with Troy. No word on Monty yet. I knew it would happen on a Friday. Gores runs this thing like another company in his portfolio, not a sports franchise.
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    The Langdon story broke last week and we've heard zero from the organization. I hope that means they're sorting out the Monty and Troy firings before an announcement next week and the PR team is just hard at work writing everyone's speeches.
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    This org is run like a joke. It's not just Monty and Troy, they need to clean house. Edit: Also, I'm glad to see that Omari continues to poke at this org when they drop the ball. Unlike JEIII, he's been getting a lot of respect from the fans for being more vocal on this type of stuff.
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    Yea, they may want to trade the pick. I’m sure the pistons do too. Doesn’t mean anyone wants it. Smells like a draft with a lot of talk and not a lot of movement.
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    Reed is #3 on my board and I would jump for joy if we landed him at 5 based upon what I'm seeing in this draft. But, he's not going to last that long. I'll take TJ McConnell with a 50% three ball, a 40" vert, and 3 stocks per game all day long. Worst case, he's your 6th man for a long, long time.
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    It's night and day between the playoffs and the regular season in the NBA. Far more physical and the refs let a lot go. I wish regular season basketball was officiated that way because it feels like defense is actually allowed. It definitely has an effect on finesse teams or soft players in the playoffs. But it's not why Centers are less important - that's because most of them can't guard the perimeter and teams strategize to exploit that in a 7 game series. If you can't switch on defense you're cooked.
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    After the game he said he puts up 1500 shots a day. The TNT crew called "BS" and beat him up about it big time. Also said he was soft and told him to, "get his big ass in the paint" multiple times.
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    Year after year. You can get away with it in the regular season, but the playoffs are all about finding mismatches and exploiting them. Arguably, the DPOY is the best of the best in that role, and even he's hurting his team on the court. They're actively hunting him play after play. And now the team is stuck between a rock and a hard place because you're paying this guy max money to sit on the bench during the playoffs. Should've spent that money on guys who will be on the court in every series, at the most important times of the game.
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    Dallas has been really surprising me. I guess I didn't watch enough of them down the stretch to see how well all of these parts are fitting together around Luka. Much as I hate Kyrie, I have trouble not rooting for Dallas in this matchup. Watching people hunt Gobert in the playoffs year after year has become something of a hobby of mine. Reid has been really good. He's the guy the Pistons hope Stewart can become. On another note, KAT has been benched in the 4th for Naz more than once in these playoffs. You have to think that owners in MIN who never pay the luxury tax might be thinking about making that a more permanent change this summer by shipping out his massive salary to someone like the Pistons.
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    100% the route I hope they go. Problem is, why would Monty want a buyout? Just to save a little face? Everyone will know it's actually a firing anyway and he can get the same result with 30M more dollars in his pocket. I see no reason why he would do that. I have to hope that Langdon (and Gores) have the guts to just fire the clown.
  11. Betrayer
    This. We're talking about hundreds of athletes that he represented. You can't throw a stone in the NBA without finding someone he's connected to. Most organizations would love to have a guy like that behind the scenes with all of the relationships he has around the league. Unfortunately, our franchise has been run into the ground so we're pointing fingers anywhere. It could be that Tellem is a problem, but then again most of the bad moves could be Gores pulling rank or Weaver doing his thing or a combination of all three. We'll never really know.
  12. Betrayer
    Both things are true. It's a bad roster and Monty was a horrendous coach. It's not just the fans calling this out, it got plenty of national media attention from respected guys like Sam Vecenie, Brian Windhorst, and more. Towards the end of the year, even the beat writers, who are notoriously adverse to making waves, started calling him out. His in-game coaching lost this team at least a half dozen games, his roster management was abysmal, player development actually impeded guys, and he straight up lied to the media over and over again about his intentions. He coached like a guy trying to get fired and everyone, not just Piston fans, saw it and called it out. imo, It's even more important to fire Monty than Weaver since Weaver now has a babysitter holding his puppet strings and making the final decisions. But if Monty is not fired, then I will have zero faith in Langdon from the start.
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    Another team that will start and finish their coaching search before we even have a PoBo to come in and fire Monty.
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    I'd love to bring KCP back. Perfect guy for this organization. They need a vet who's won at the highest level, plays defense, and can shoot the three. As a bonus, I still have his jersey since he was the only player on the team I actually really liked during that era. If I'm hunting a second star I'd rather that person be a wing/forward than another guard. Most successful teams have their big 2 players at different positions so they can run 2-man action that creates mismatches. You can't do that with Cade and Monk, it would just be your turn then my turn like Cade and Ivey. I've been out on Monk from the start. Plus, KCP will be about half the cost and actually plays defense. Side note, I wouldn't mind taking a long look at Gary Trent Jr, Bruce Brown, Isaac Okoro, Obi Toppin (RFA), Kelly Oubre, Caleb Martin, and Derrick Jones Jr in addition to everyone's favorites Claxton and Hartenstein. A lot of talk about this being a weak free agent class - and that's true in terms of stars - but there are some really solid role players out there that could help this team.
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    Imagine knowing you were going to need to clean house since around January (or sooner) and doing nothing about it until after the season, when you then decide to start the process by trying to find a firm to go collect candidates for you. Then you release a presser that says you're going to "move fast" to hire a PoBo. Now it's the end of May, the draft combine has already happened, coaches have already been hired, and this new guy is going to walk in cold on June 15th or whenever you finally make the hire. Oh, and it'll be his job to assess the current staff. fire everyone for you because you didn't have the balls, and then start finding replacements all while managing a draft he just walked into, learning a new organization, and navigating free agency. Way to set the new guy up to fail from day 1. This organization is a joke and will be until they get a competent owner.
  16. Betrayer
    Great game! Both Game 1's have been excellent, though I wish Indy could've pulled theirs out as well.
  17. Betrayer
    More reason to just give Cade the extension now.
  18. Betrayer
    Overpaying Monk feels a lot like a Ben Gordon move. Which means Scott Perry is your guy for anyone who wants that to happen. Let's not forget that Hammond left the year before and then Perry became Joe's right hand man and VP of Basketball Ops. HIs first offseason in that role was the Gordon + Charlie V signing.
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    Painful ending to that Pacers/Celtics game. Indy had it wrapped up and then two completely boneheaded turnovers destroyed them. Carlisle also doesn't like to foul when he's up by 3, so they gave Boston a chance and Brown hit a prayer in the corner. You just knew it was over for Indy when they went to OT. They had their chance and lost it.
  20. Betrayer
    From the start of that series I felt the team that came out would be the NBA champs. Dallas gets 1 game, maybe 2. Now that Connelly is off the table can we get on with this PoBo thing?
  21. Betrayer
    Pacers move on. On one end they shoot an insane percentage and on the other they pick up full court on defense. The way they move the ball and play for each other is fun to watch. I'd love to have a coach like Carlisle (again).
  22. Betrayer
    If it can speed up the end of games in the NBA, I'd be for it. But why would the NBA do it? There's less ad venue if you have less commercial timeouts.
  23. Betrayer
    Wizards, sure. Hawks aren't taking him over Sarr. Rockets have Sengun and need a PG, so I don't see that happening.
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    He'd love that. 15 assist night incoming. Did anyone see Draymond's comments on TNT after the game? Sure, everyone is talking about how Jokic used Gobert, but Draymond took it to cheap shot levels. To be expected from Dray I guess since he loves cheap shots in every form.
  25. Betrayer
    These days it just seems like every "report" is linked back to some other article (referred to as a "source") where someone else is just speculating on possibilities.
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