Allen Iverson’s first Pistons practice

Pssshhh…
Shaq dislikes Detroit so much, if he was traded to Detroit, he’d say the Suns won the trade.

The only way I end up disliking the AI trade is if Dyess ends up back in the East, but not on the Pistons.

Any word on whether Dyess plans on suiting up for the Nuggets any time soon/at all?

I love this site! Good gets on the quotes.

Why does everyone keep saying we win the trade conditional on McDyess re-signing with us? He was our fourth best big man. Look, I love the guy, want him to get a ring with us more than anything, and would detest seeing him wearing green. But suggesting a scrappy, likeable, but ultimately league-average player is the key to a trade that involves two elite players and financial implications in the 30% of annual payroll area seems really forced.

Fourth(!) best?

Rasheed, Amir, and Maxiell are all better today. I can see an argument for Dice over Maxiell, but you’ll find the main stat guys tend to prefer Maxiell. PER, Adj. +/-, and Roland Rating all like Maxiell (the latter two by a fair amount). Dave Berri liked Dice a little more last year, but I’m guessing based on their respective ages that it would invert this year.

Would you rather have the Dice from two years ago that shot 53% over Maxiell? Sure – but that’s not who we traded.

Oh. I’m not a stat-head, by which I mean the computer/mathematical formula things. I’m actually more surprised that you place Amir over Dyess, rather than Maxiell.

I suppose I just wonder because Curry made such a ta-do about Dyess being the anchor for the 2nd unit, and BAM!, it’s over two games in. Though Tayshaun’s performance with that unit last night alleviated some of my worries. Kwame’s played pretty big in the past two games, as well.

I’m totally slappy over Amir, but I guess I still have trust issues.

So, um, what about showing up to practice?

After watching the excerpt from Chauncey’s press conference on TNT, it’s clear that Chauncey is happy to be returning home to Denver. This trade was great for everyone involved. However, it’s still going to be a little unsettling seeing Iverson wear the #1 jersey.

If I recall Shaq has a history of talking up the conference that he is in at the expense of the other conference. Why give a conference rival bulletin board material? He’s not wrong about Billups helping the Nuggets but I also recall Shaq listing AI as the toughest player in the league, then himself.

Trading Billups alone (assuming Dice returns) makes it seem like he’s to blame for our failures the last three years. That’s not fair at all. I think this makes him hate Joe Dumars.

But anyways, our offense has been stale and it’s like we left the pop bottle open and have been drinking from it for three years.

The Denver paper reports that ‘Dyess’ agent says the chances of him playing for Denver are “very, very low to zero.”

According to Billups “he’s tired of moving.”

Well, I know of one way he wouldn’t need to…

iverson’s comments sort of relate to what i was thinking about this summer when i thought iverson was a good target in a trade. i was trying to think who might be a better rip than rip. i could see a.i. being easily as adept as rip as curling off screens and getting those open mid-range shots. of course, this was under the idea that chauncey would be feeding him the ball, but nopody’s berfect.

this story just in, shaq o’neal is still a big fat doofus.

Seems unlikely the plan here was ever anything but a buyout – they just have to put up the front so as not to be accused of tampering. Hope he still wants to play for us.

AI has screw you money. He might just play for a modest amount forever like Michael Finley or Mutumbo as long as he finds a place he is happy. If the Pistons go deep in the playoffs and AI is happy with Curry and Dumars I see him resigning for whatever he can get in Detroit.

The same goes for Rasheed. I always thought Rasheed would age into a rich man’s Robert Horry and I think that more than ever now.

Shaq’s opinions are worthless… really. One that sticks out is him saying that “he always makes free throws ‘when they count.’” When don’t they?!?

I hope after 30 days, McDyess flips Boston the bird and comes back home!! If McDyess looks at the numbers he has to know Dumars wouldn’t have traded him unless he HAD to to make the deal work. There’s no need for him to hold a grudge, sell his house, and move to another city. What a pain in the ass… just come back to D-town and help us win a championship!!!

Anyone that’s watched the playoffs over the last few years knew that Billuips would be gone at the end of the season. I was surprised to see him on the court opening night. Billups has lost his game and Stuckey seems to have found it. With the speed and the tenacity of Stuckey, Billups actually didn’t have a chance. Billups is a veteran that was making rookie mistakes. If we are going to contend for the championship, we have to bring our “A” game from the beginning of the season the end of the playoffs. As far as McDyess is concerned, I think he was just added in to make the trade look good. Now that A.I. is in, let’s get McDyess back in the red white and blue and just do the darn thing, bring the trophy back to Detroit.

JackDutch, I agree. I could see Tay at the top with Rip and AI concurrently running off screens.