Deleterious

Former Michigan player.

He has been waiting for this moment.  

OKC-Dallas and DEN-MIN might be the best second round matchups we have had in a long time.

I think Donovan Mitchell is the most overrated player in the league.  He can score, but he isn't very efficient and does almost nothing else to help his team win.  Absolutely terrible defender.

It would be better if they removed the Pistons.  I don't need a 28 hand losing streak when I am playing poker.  

I'm so old I remember when I wanted the pistons to get rid of Ham.

The Lakers let Darvin Ham go.

That sort of makes it worse. 

23 minutes ago, buddha said:

JEIII's latest is the ol' make an offer to the beat writer for another team for a trade.  each beat writer basically said "no way."

the pistons dont have the assets to trade for an available GOOD player, much less an available STAR player.

duren and this year's #1 for ingram and the pels' #1.  nope.

duren and fournier for poetl, bruce brown and a #1 pick this year.  nope.

duren, ivey, and this year's #1 pick for lauri markkanen.  nope.  with a big ol' laughing emoji that this wouldnt even be CLOSE to what they would want for markkanen.  five frp/frs is what it would take or maybe 3 first round picks and cade. similar to the donovan mitchell trade.

these are just beat writers, but the overall tenor is that the pistons' assets are not looked at as valuable other than cade and maybe isaiah stewart.  this year's number one is not worth much because the draft class sucks, and ivey, duren, etc are not seen as valuable players.

and we cant trade future ones because we still owe one to the knicks.

we are four years into the worst rebuild in nba history and we have very few assets and NEGATIVE draft capital.

the incompetence of this front office is amazing, matched only by the incompetence of ownership in keeping it around.

 

After reading this, our best bet might be to just hold on and hope one of them develops.  Not much sense just trading our bad players for different bad players.  

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I am wrong about Brunson.  So so wrong.

Just kick that bitch out of the league.

44 minutes ago, buddha said:

well.....arn tellum was jj's agent so...

Damn. I didn't know that.

24 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

The JEIII method - just name everyone you can possibly think of so you have a better shot at taking a victory lap later.

How many names has rattled off so far? Seven?

And none of them have really moved the needle for me.

Should start a pool to guess when he mentions JJ Redick.  

From the JEIII mailbag on The Athletic.

No clue about any of these guys.  But I saw people talking about Gupta.  MIT graduate with a degree in computer science, so probably an analytic type.  Apparently, he also was the creator of the ESPN trade machine.

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Lastly, aside from some of the names I’ve mentioned before, keep an eye on Dennis Lindsey (Dallas), Marc Eversley (Chicago) and Sachin Gupta (Minnesota), who I think could bring some creative, fresh thinking to the the basketball side.

You can have a poorly built team and a bad coach.

That guy is running around telling his assistant he wants to put a baby in her.  Meanwhile, I get nervous when one of our female employees hugs me.

50 minutes ago, KL2 said:

That tweet made no sense to me. So the issue is hotel rooms? But we have enough hotel rooms to host a superbowl, mlb all star game and the draft? I don't think the NBA all star game is bigger than those events.

The only thing I can think of is the NBA uses a smaller radius when counting hotel rooms.  

Eh, didn't they say a complete new livery?  

I hate that color blue.  I think this would look good if they had gone with yellow instead.