4/2/26 7:00PM Timberwolves 46-29 @ Pistons 55-21

[Deleterious]

Edwards is out.  

[Betrayer]

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

That makes Cade ineligible for post season awards.

Stew is not eligible.

Ausar is not eligible.

Cade was an easy all NBA pick.  Stew and Ausar were easy all defensive team picks.  

I think Ausar is still eligible. I think he has to play 20 minutes in all but 1 of our remaining games (or something like that).

The sad part is most of the damage to Ausar's eligibility was done by JB. Way too many games where he just decided to play him less than 20 minutes.

[Deleterious]

30 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

I think Ausar is still eligible. I think he has to play 20 minutes in all but 1 of our remaining games (or something like that).

The sad part is most of the damage to Ausar's eligibility was done by JB. Way too many games where he just decided to play him less than 20 minutes.

Ah good, my math must suck. 

[Sports_Freak]

9 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Pistons would help themselves beating Minnesota tonight.  Edwards is questionable and McDaniels is out.

With only 7 games left it appears the Minnesota pick will fall into the 21/22/23 slot with Detroit being 28th.  So they move up a bit, but its pretty pointless.  Vecenie said most players in that range are so similar they could go 20th or 30th.

I do see people saying the Pistons should try to move up.  Terrible idea IMO.  Vecenie also said for the first time in his career he will be giving out more than 30 1st round grades.  So the draft is deep.  In deep drafts you don't move up, you accumulate extra picks.

OKC should be a target of Detroit to acquire an extra pick.  Currently, they are 15th.  Well, the Clippers are 15th but it goes to OKC.

There were reports around the trade deadline OKC would move this year's pick for future picks if they didn't end up top 5.  They don't want to add guaranteed contracts to their expensive roster.  They want to push those picks off a few years when they start to ship out more expensive players.  

 

Is this why fans have been watching the Minnesota results all season? We have their 1st round pick or something?

[Deleterious]

7 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Is this why fans have been watching the Minnesota results all season? We have their 1st round pick or something?

We swap with them if it's 19-30. They get our pick and we get their pick. 

[Deleterious]

Come on. LeVert just got his pocket picked at half court by Randle.

[Deleterious]

The Pistons shot 65% from the field in the 1st quarter and somehow trail by 1.

[Sports_Freak]

Pistons lost a challenge. Watch, every close call will now go against us.

[Deleterious]

Prime short changed Cade on the assists there. 

[1984Echoes]

3 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Pistons lost a challenge. Watch, every close call will now go against us.

Refs have already been ****ing the Pistons.

Three straight drives Duren scores THROUGH Gobert's arms not one ****ing call. Gobert was all over him...

A ticky-tack touch on Randle = foul called on the Pistons.

The Refs are trying to **** us this game.

[Deleterious]

Didn't feel like the pistons played all that well and they are still tied at the half

[Deleterious]

Did they say why Harris is done for the game?

[Deleterious]

I predict JB loses us a playoff game with a really stupid challenge.  

[Deleterious]

I hate when a ref waits to see if the shot goes in before calling a foul.  

[buddha]

Lord, grant me the confidence of Caris Lavert.

[Sports_Freak]

44 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Did they say why Harris is done for the game?

Knee contusion. He bumped knees.

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Pistons lost a challenge. Watch, every close call will now go against us.

There you go....punched in the head...no call...

[Deleterious]

The lob was pretty.

 

[buddha]

an amazing athlete.

[Deleterious]

Dumb foul by Huerter.

[Deleterious]

Jenkins is money at the line in close games. I want him on the line over anyone else in crunch time

[Sports_Freak]

Missing 8 free throws and some terrible calls by the officials made it closer than it should have been. But still, a win against a quality opponent. Magic # to clinch the East is down to 1. Bold prediction? Pistons will win the Eastern Conference. 😅

[Sports_Freak]

17 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Jenkins is money at the line in close games. I want him on the line over anyone else in crunch time

Yeah....where would we be without Jenkins? I doubt we even win the division...

[Betrayer]

Terribly officiated game, but the Pistons pull it out.

Great game from Jenkins and Ausar was everywhere as usual with 5 stocks, 9 rebounds, and 9 assists. Duren struggled a bit compared to his usual efficiency and turned it over way too much (5 of the team's 12 turnovers), but still had some nice moments.

Huerter played well also. He just a solid all around player.

Lavert was a team low -11 of course. JB still truckin on and giving him minutes although it was encouraging to see that he got less minutes than any of the other wings.

[DTroppens]

15 hours ago, Deleterious said:

I predict JB loses us a playoff game with a really stupid challenge.  

We do take a lot of meaningless challenges that you know as soon as he challenges it, you know it's going to fail.