03/09/2024 7:00pm EST Dallas Mavericks at Detroit Pistons

[casimir]

@Tigeraholic1 is too busy getting his clocks ready for spring ahead day tonight.  Or maybe he’s blotto drunk with Tom Gores.  I don’t know.  Either way, I got you.  Let’s use this piece of property on the interwebs to discuss the upcoming athletic event of professional hardwood basketball between Luka Doncic and his Dallas Mavericks against our drunk uncle Tom’s Detroit Pistons.  Allez les Pistons!

[Deleterious]

Luka is questionable.  

[casimir]

17 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Luka is questionable.  

Is he hanging out with @Tigeraholic1 and drunk Uncle Tom?

[Tigeraholic1]

15 minutes ago, casimir said:

Is he hanging out with @Tigeraholic1 and drunk Uncle Tom?

You noticed I made it to the Tigers game thread? Then Andrew Chafin talked me into stopping by McDonald’s for breakfast but needed to swing by the L for some Fireball and smokes. We missed breakfast and well the rest is history.

 

 

 

Edited March 9, 2024 by Tigeraholic1

[Deleterious]

We are a half game ahead of Washington so we are probably still alive!

 

[casimir]

44 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

You noticed I made it to the Tigers game thread? Then Andrew Chafin talked me into stopping by McDonald’s for breakfast but needed to swing by the L for some Fireball and smokes. We missed breakfast and well the rest is history.

 

 

 

I had no idea that you and Chafin were doppelgängers.

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

I mean, Dallas has 111 points with 11 minutes left in the game.  You can't win giving up that many points.  

[Deleterious]

Gafford is just embarrassing Duren now.  Blocked him easy at the rim then out hustled him down the court for the easy dunk while Duren was 8 feet behind him.

[Deleterious]

Jesus hates Ivey tonight.

[buddha]

i thought ausar was getting better at shooting?  

[Deleterious]

Not to pick on Fontecchio because he was great on offense.  But his defense on Luka wasn't good.  Especially compared to Thompson who was doing a really good job on Luka before leaving the game.

[Deleterious]

Some clarification on Fontecchio and his free agent status this summer.

Yes he is restricted meaning Detroit can match any offers.  But no, they can't go over the cap to sign him.  At least not the normal way.

He is an early Bird rights player.  That means they can go over the cap to sign him, but it isn't unlimited like normal Bird rights players.  Early Bird you can go up to 175% of this years contract or 105% of the league average, whichever is larger.

His contract this season is about $3m so they could offer just over $5m.  The league average salary is around $8m so that will be the max they can offer without using cap space.  Anything over that and they must have free cap space to sign him.  Which is fine since they are projected to have almost $60m in cap space.

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

 

[NYLion]

13 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Gafford is just embarrassing Duren now.  Blocked him easy at the rim then out hustled him down the court for the easy dunk while Duren was 8 feet behind him.

I know he's young but I'm getting serious Drummond vibes from him. Effort comes and goes, horrible defense (terrible rim protector), tries to do too much on offense at times, low basketball IQ. I think he has more raw athleticism than Andre and has better free throw touch but...yeah, he's Drummond.

[Deleterious]

23 minutes ago, NYLion said:

I know he's young but I'm getting serious Drummond vibes from him. Effort comes and goes, horrible defense (terrible rim protector), tries to do too much on offense at times, low basketball IQ. I think he has more raw athleticism than Andre and has better free throw touch but...yeah, he's Drummond.

Unfortunately true.

[Deleterious]

Looks like a fan got into it with Weaver.  

 

[Hongbit]

Weaver does suck at his job but fan is an idiot for acting surprised at getting tossed.  

[buddha]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

Weaver does suck at his job but fan is an idiot for acting surprised at getting tossed.  

part of the job is taking criticism.  you dont throw out a fan for being a jerk.  that's bush league from weaver.

 

[Hongbit]

41 minutes ago, buddha said:

part of the job is taking criticism.  you dont throw out a fan for being a jerk.  that's bush league from weaver.

 

No way.  Criticism online, over the air, or in the paper, is part of the job.  In person at the game is not.  That’s crossing a boundary and would get the same response from most GM’s in the league.   

 

[Deleterious]

We're all going to a game to tell Weaver he sucks after he extends Wiseman.

[buddha]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

No way.  Criticism online, over the air, or in the paper, is part of the job.  In person at the game is not.  That’s crossing a boundary and would get the same response from most GM’s in the league.   

 

disagree.  dont sit in the stands if you cant take it.

[buddha]

if the ceo of my company told a customer "youre lucky i dont beat your ass" in public on video he would be fired immediately.  troy weaver is not a player, he's a professional manager.  you cannot act that way as a leader of an organization.

the bare minimum is a suspension.  if the pistons dont do it the league has to do it.

lets be honest, this would be a great excuse to get rid of weaver, but gores isnt that smart or proactive.

[casimir]

Or maybe its option C, both were in the wrong?

Too bad it wasn't drunk uncle Tom that was doing the heckling.