No thank you, Joe.

Firstard!

“I gravitate towards Stephen Jackson and Zach Randolph — I don’t know why.”

I don’t either.

I don’t know anything about this guy, but the fact that you lump him in with Jackson and Randolph makes me want to stop reading immediately.

As a Duke fan, I resent both of these fucking choices.

Hmmm. No.

Don’t judge Maynor based on my flaws – Captain Jax and Z-Bo are pretty fun to watch.

Maynor is good.

Yeah, Zach IS pretty fun to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh2fn01cngg

I think I’m leaning to Maynor and T. Williams of the players that are likely to be available.

Not really excited about anyone though and would much rather trade the pick and use the cap space on someone you KNOW is good.

Sorry to hear that, TDP. I’ll pass on the all D2 back court.

I’d take Lawson all day over Maynor. I don’t think we need another “tweener” guard. I want a legit pass-first PG if we’re going to draft one, and to me Lawson is a can’t miss. Again, I don’t give a shit about his height—he’s the same size as CP3. The guy’s body of work is undeniably stellar. Gabe’s guy over at Hoops Analyst does a great job breaking down the PG crop:

http://www.hoopsanalyst.com/0809ew7.htm

Combo Guards are cool cool ! Right, MP?

Well, they might not be cool cool, but they’re definitely cool.

@Joel:

I still disagree completely re: Psycho-T, but I think you’re right to value Lawson highly. He’s gonna be solid, at worst, and he shoots the 3 really well. I think I would want him unless we could get Blair. I don’t really know shit about Williams or Clark. This seems like more of a sure thing. My only hesitation is that we don’t have space at the guard position and I love MFWB.

“I’d take Lawson all day over Maynor. I don’t think we need another "tweener" guard.”

Maynor’s not a “tweener” guard. He’s considered one of the few pure PGs in the draft along with Lawson and Collison.

@Colin:
Combo Guards are cool cool ! Right, MP?

Absolutely! They win championships more often than “pure” pg’s :)

I’ll still take Lawson over Maynor please, and Earl Clark over Twill. I don’t know a damn thing about college ball, but from a stat perspective, it’s relatively clear who’s who. Thing is, the draft is more about who I DON’T want Joe to draft than who I do… I’ll either be content or pissed— with a slight chance of being excited (see blair, lawson, clark)

Where did this “Maynor is a combo guard” thing come from? Just because he’s 6’3" doesn’t mean he doesn’t have pure PG skills.

Not saying we should draft him, just trying to clarify some misinformation.

From draftexpress:

“Although he’s become a much more effective scorer this season, Maynor is very obviously a pure and quite unselfish point guard. He sees the floor extremely well, executes his team’s offense efficiently, and is at his best running the pick and roll, where he makes very good decisions with the ball in his hands. Unlike most college point guards, he already looks quite comfortable making virtually every type of pass a point guard needs to make—be it a lob over the top of the defense, a bounce pass splitting the double team off a pick and roll, a bullet pass into the post, a drive and dish pass to an open shooter on the wing, or just a simple swing in the flow of the offense to keep things fluid and moving. He’s at times a little overambitious with some of the passes he makes, but you have to wonder just how much better he would be if he had a slightly better supporting cast (particularly big men) around him—which is probably depriving him of at least 1-2 assists per game. With that said, he is not immune to mental lapses like seemingly all college point guards, and will at times come up with some careless turnovers.”

The article goes on to point other strengths and flaws in his game.

FYI… Part One of Langlois interview with Dumars about the off-season is up. The only thing notable so far…

- He has 4-5 guys he’s considering with the 15th pick and his general tone sounded like he was leaning towards keeping the pick.

- Definitely one but probably two of the 2nd rounders will be in Europe next season.

Also, in Langlois blog, he mentions that Deron Washington has a strong shot at making the roster next season.

@QD:
Did he say anything about picking up Ben Gordon as Detroit’s next scoring big?

I guess I never knew the proper pronunciation of Langlois.

@TDP:
Langlois:
Pronunciation: Lang-Law
Definition: One whose journalistic integrity is based on the whims of Joe Dumars testicles.
Used in a sentence: “Joe Dumars Langloi’d the fans to believe the hype about Darko Milicic.”

@MP: you’re saying your preference is either Lawson, Blair, or Clark?

If so, I cosign.

@Colin:
Rightbackatchu, buddy— that’s my hope!

I’d like to sign you fella’s petition.

Count me in too, gentlemen. I was on the T-Will bandwagon, until Onions knocked me off it. I didn’t realize he was such a crappy shooter, and he doesn’t make up for it by getting to the line (not that it would help much, since he is an awful free throw shooter).

we need to stop entertaining these dumb articles. the pistons front office cry every year that we need a impact player like lebron, like kobe, like wade and like the great jordan, but when one in their face they don’t grab him. i’ll repeat gp is not jumping on terrance williams bandwagon for no reason. jordan was not a great player in college but look what he did when he came in the nba. nobody knew kobe would be as good as he is,in the nba or he would have been the #1 pick when he was drafted.so in other the words don’t judge what he did in college, judge what he is capable of.