1/1/25 7:00PM Hornets @ Pistons

[Tigeraholic1]

[Deleterious]

43% from straight away is really impressive.  Obviously needs a lot of work still at the rim.

[Deleterious]

This applies to Beasley.

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Non-Bird Rights: If the player has been with the team for less than two seasons (meaning the one-year contract was his only season with the team), the team can only offer a salary up to the player's previous salary plus 20% or 120% of the minimum salary for a player with his years of service, whichever is greater.

His salary is $6M so they can offer $7.2M.  Anything over that will require raw cap space.  

[Deleterious]

This is actually against Orlando.  The Charlotte game is Friday.

Cade listed as probable with a sore knee.

Tech is out for personal reasons.  

[Deleterious]

THJ sucks at almost everything. But that dude does draw a ton of charges.

[Deleterious]

It probably won't work long term. But I love the Holland, Thompson, Stewart lineup.

[Deleterious]

When Ivey is 4-4 from three you can play any lineup you want.

[Deleterious]

Pistons are up 16 at the half. Ivey has 16. Cade has 12 and 5.

[Deleterious]

KCP punishing us for picking Harris over him.

[Deleterious]

Duren has caught 5 or 6 libs tonight. 

Ugh now he's grabbing his ankle.

[Deleterious]

Way too many turnovers from Thompson.

[Deleterious]

Then Thompson does that. Strips a point guard at half court and takes it for the dunk.

[Deleterious]

Great defense by Harris. Pistons up 9 at the end of three.

[Deleterious]

 

[Adullin]

Vegas called that foul. 

[Deleterious]

Ivey is down and it doesn't look good at all.  

[Deleterious]

They have a stretcher out for Ivey.  Both teams are standing around him and it is dead silent in the arena.  

[Deleterious]

 

[Adullin]

That's not good.  

[Hart]

This teams need for a point guard is only going to get accentuated without Ivey.  

Edited January 2, 2025 by Hart

[Hongbit]

Damn.  He was starting to play some pretty nice ball.   Hopefully it’s a severely broken leg instead of all of his knee ligaments.  

[Deleterious]

Good win. I would be shocked if Ivey plays again this season.

[NYLion]

2 hours ago, Hongbit said:

Damn.  He was starting to play some pretty nice ball.   Hopefully it’s a severely broken leg instead of all of his knee ligaments.  

Yeah, I'm hoping it's a clean break as opposed to a torn achilles or something which could have way longer than this season effects or be career altering.

I have no idea what the Pistons can do now. Ivey was one of two players that couldn't afford to lose and with such a huge talent deficiency as is I don't see how this doesn't sink their season.

[RandyMarsh]

Get the team to start playing better along with Ivey looking better then something like this happens. 

Kinda reminds me of Brandon Jennings like 10 years ago, I remember he was coming off a 20/20 game and it looked like he was turning the corner a bit and the team may actually have something with him only for him to then tear his Achilles and essentially end his career. 

Let's hope it isn't nearly as debilitating as that was. 

[Deleterious]

To be fair.   He had a lot of chances to make up for mistakes last night.