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That was the best we could come out of the timeout with?  

Cade doing his part.  Can they get enough stops?  

Monty has been subbing a lot at the end of games lately.  Now Knox is in?

Man...weak foul call on Ausar there. 

I do think it's important to have Stewart and Duren out there together.  The question is do you put Ausar in for for Ivey to try slow down Bridges or Thomas.  Ivey really isn't helping a lot right now.  

I was skeptical taking Stewart out and the Pistons paid for it there with an And 1 offensive rebound for the Nets.  

Pistons going to ride their starters heavy minutes tonight, as they should.  

4 minutes ago, buddha said:

come on boys!  need to lose this one to keep the streak alive!

I, for one, will be happy when we break the streak.  

Ausar has done a nice job on Thomas tonight.  Probably a good game to leave him out there to guard Thomas and see what happens.  

Even by Wiseman's standards, this is bad.  

1 minute ago, Deleterious said:

Ivey and Cade taking over a bit.  

We've seen this tale before.  Do it in the 4th quarter when it matters to close the game out.  These third quarter surges are nice but don't win you games.  

Is Bagley hurt?  I want to win this game and am not sure why we have to play Wiseman.  

Wiseman is so bad.  

It is really just killing the Pistons that Cade and Ivey are not developing to their draft hype.  Maybe it's just youth.  Cade puts up some nice stats but man, they seem like low impact stats.  

Sasser needs to SHOOT it.  He's a good shooter.  Can't just give us empty minutes all the time.  

I'll say this for Ivey...he has been playing with a lot more urgency lately.  Still not playing great but this is the hardest I have seen him play over a period of several games, including his time at Purdue.  He just doesn't have a great feel for the game though.  Mental errors and sloppy ball handling/passing are a continual problem.  

I think the problem with the bench is more the big guys than the guards.  Not that Sasser or Burks are that good but we can't get anything done with Wiseman in there, even if he is playing with starters.  

Ausar needs to make it his mission to not let Thomas go off.  

Pistons 1-6 from three and getting wide open looks.  It's the NBA folks.  When your two starting guards struggle to stay about 30% on three point shooting, you are not going to win a lot of games.  

Monty just overthinks things.  Should have taken Cade out with two fouls first instead of Bogey.  Now Cade has to play soft on defense with the subs and the Nets immediately go on a mini spurt.  

Glad Vecenie went on rant.  It's good people not part of the Detroit media are bringing light that something is rotting inside this organization.  

Interesting take on Weaver doubling down on his mistakes.  It seems spot on.  The fact Killian is still around is insane.  

I don't hold Cade and Ivey too much against Weaver yet though.  The Pistons can start exploring trades but it's too early to sell low on those guys.  There may be an element of coaching and development that we should be more concerned about with those two.  

8 hours ago, buddha said:

listening to another pistons pod today with them talking about how the pistons cut off access if you dont say nice things about them.  which makes sense considering the tone of the beat reporters.

langlois i understand because he works for the team.  he's not going to badmouth them.  jeiii is weaver's mouthpiece and must be getting info from him.  the news and freep guys have actually been forced to be more critical the past week after a year of excuses.

If this is true, then there is very little hope for the future.  This is terrible leadership, whether it's coming from Gores or somebody else.  If it's coming from somebody else, Gores needs to get rid of them immediately.

At least we didn’t have to watch Livers and Wiseman.

I do feel bad for the players.  They are playing harder than most NBA teams play on a nightly basis and desperately trying to break this streak but it doesn't matter.  The Pistons just don't have good enough players.  

Cade getting some garbage time stats.  

Not sure how we are going to break this streak.  We get blown out by good teams and usually hover around a 10 point deficit against average teams before they pull away late.  Weaver should be fired immediately.  

17 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Down double digits after the 1st quarter. These games are over before they begin. 

Yep.  I don't even feel like we are close to winning games.  We trail almost the entire game every time I watch.  

9 hours ago, buddha said:

so bogey is cooked and livers sucks.  the two guys we were told the team was relying on and who would have made so much of a difference if they werent hurt to start the year.

they refused to trade bogey last year or in the offseason.  why?  so they could watch the redictable decline of a mid-30s unathletic shooter?  and then doubled down by trading for broken joe harris?

basketball malpractice going on here.

 

I don't see Bogey's trade value being much less now than it was last year.  Their asking price was too high last year and the Pistons need to lower it but they should be able to get equal or close to what they could have got last year.   

It's our young guys that I would be concerned about their value.