Tigeraholic1 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyMarsh Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Don't know how many starters are going to play since they just got done in the in season tourney championship but regardless the Pacers are prob gonna score 150 on us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleterious Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 1 hour ago, RandyMarsh said: Don't know how many starters are going to play since they just got done in the in season tourney championship but regardless the Pacers are prob gonna score 150 on us. Now give us your prediction for the second half. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 JEIII with the usual "things need time to gel" article today. which almost all of predicted would be the next article (they havent had time to play together because of injuries) but couched in the "dont make a panic move and trade for kuzma or lavine" mantra. which i agree with. i dont want either of those guys. but if he's writing: "Assuming Detroit doesn’t suddenly turn a month’s worth of losing into the alternative over the next five days, it’s my understanding that the Pistons could be active in the trade market in the coming weeks." that means he's heard the front office is looking to make a deal. which is scary considering this front office's track record. i dont have a freep or detnews account so i cant read their beat writers articles. and there's no point in reading keith langlois because he works for the team. btw, the comments to those articles are pretty funny lately with them all calling out JEIII for being a weaver shill. especially today with the "you wrote the same **** about josh jackson" back in the day that you write now about livers. he's turned a corner in practice! lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleterious Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 JEIII almost makes me want to cancel my subscription. Lavine, Kuzma, and Poole are all a no-go from me. I know Poole isn't being talked about. But Washington supposedly is looking to move him. I fear Weaver goes after him because he is young and Washington probably doesn't want a ton for him. They will just be happy to dump his contract. Which should send up huge red flags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 please no jordan poole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betrayer Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 3 hours ago, buddha said: that means he's heard the front office is looking to make a deal. which is scary considering this front office's track record. It's even scarier considering that Weaver is under major pressure now so he's going to try to save his job with a Blake Griffin type move that's going to damn the franchise for years to come. Might be better to fire him now before he pulls an SVG on the way out the door. But even if you clean house by firing Weaver, firing Tellem, and negotiating a buyout with the coach who you overpaid to take a job he clearly didn't want, you still have the biggest problem lingering: Gores. A bad owner who likes to meddle at the worst times and thinks that basketball works like a corporation where you just hire the big name Exec that just left some other company to make the optics look good (SVG, Casey, Monty). This whole thing is a mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Betrayer said: It's even scarier considering that Weaver is under major pressure now so he's going to try to save his job with a Blake Griffin type move that's going to damn the franchise for years to come. Might be better to fire him now before he pulls an SVG on the way out the door. But even if you clean house by firing Weaver, firing Tellem, and negotiating a buyout with the coach who you overpaid to take a job he clearly didn't want, you still have the biggest problem lingering: Gores. A bad owner who likes to meddle at the worst times and thinks that basketball works like a corporation where you just hire the big name Exec that just left some other company to make the optics look good (SVG, Casey, Monty). This whole thing is a mess. doesnt tellum own part of the team? i doubt he goes anywhere. the best you can hope for is that the pistons stop drafting his son's clients. but all you've wrote is true, tom gores chases big shiny toys because he doesnt actually know anything about basketball or how to run a sports franchise. he likely has no connections in the industry (that's tellum's job). we all know weaver didnt want monty. he wanted kevin ollie. the word is that tellum wanted jason collins. would the team have been better off with either of those guys? who knows, but it couldnt have been any worse! in a way, monty is a troy's plausible deniability ("i didnt want him"). otoh, troy will never get another head job again after this mess. he'll be relegated to scouting and assisting. speaking of him, troy weaver came with the sam presti pedigree and looked like a great hire. and yet....here we are. if gores actually cared - and he might, those VC/hedge fund douches are very competitive - he might feel a bit snake bit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben9753 Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 It’s at 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 20 straight losses. unbeliveable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Imagine having the highest paid coach in the league and you're 2-21. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleterious Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Highest paid coach is Popovich and he is a much better 3-18 and about to lose #19. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 popovich and belichick need to realize its time to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 i'm ready for the JEIII article tomorrow on he this game saw real progress and that troy's vision will really come together if only the team were healthy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleterious Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Excited for the time Williams figures out you win games if you score more points than your opponent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleterious Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Maybe the Pistons saw what is up with Ohtani and are deferring the majority of their wins until 2034. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleterious Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 I actually thought the offense looked somewhat decent at times tonight. Then I remembered that graphic I posted the other day about Indiana having the 27th ranked defense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleterious Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 I did not watch. But figured this might interest some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 "pistons lose 20th straight but williams encouraged" is a helluva headline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Deleterious Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 There it is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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casimir Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Did the Pistons look better and/or did the Pacers play at about 80% effort? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYLion Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 I predicted a while back (maybe it was on another message board) that Gores would lose patience and force the next version of a Blake Griffin trade on to Weaver. He is not a patient man by nature (few billionaires are) so I had a feeling some of this stuff about "shakeup trade" was going to start to leak if they started slow this season. Going all in for Monty and overruling Weaver's intentions to bring in a more inexperienced coach was the first sign that his patience was wearing thin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYLion Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 And, yes, a certain portion of the media are insufferable but JEIII in particular is a shill so what did you expect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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