I wished he had screamed at them after Game 4 in the Cleveland series . . . just showed up in their locker and pulled out some Lombardi-esque speech. Then, maybe then, he’d know for sure right now where it all went wrong.

I hope he’s not as hip on Flip as it seems like today. Hey . . . anyone out there looking for a coach for their college program . . . keep calling Flip Saunders.

i do not want zach randolph. yes, we had a lot of success with one misunderstood power forward from portland, but sheed was never insane off the court like randolph. randolph is a drug-related weapons charge waiting to happen.

Zach Randolph is not going to be less popular if he came to Detroit, unless he acts up like he’s done other places. If he comes and wins a title, he’ll be as big a star as he is now. A star, but not a superstar.

Right now, the BS factor starting with the Cleveland series just tells me that it’s useless to do most of what’s been talked about . . .

Bring Shawn Marion to Detroit? Why? He’s a SF that’s been used too much at the PF spot. How does that help Prince? Marion leaves interior defense exposed to bigger players with a post game if he’s not patrolling a wing as part of a perimeter D. Marion can’t do much more than catch and shoot, either, and a half-court-dominant system like Detroit won’t make him better . . . it’ll make Marion much worse. On top of that, Sarver doesn’t want to pay a luxury tax. Rip, Rasheed, or anyone Detroit sends to Phoenix won’t help them avoid the tax.

For the Suns . . . choosing between Amare or Marion (Kerr would be a fool to part with Amare), taking the minimum amount of contracts in trade, all of them being 1-2 years left on those lesser deals, and then promptly dealing them off for role players with even lesser contract value or completely off the books for just draft picks . . . I mean, Sarver’s wish is even more severely limited than what Detroit faces.

I suspect that if a big name went to Detroit . . . a Kobe, Amare, or anyone, even a Zach Randolph . . . the amount of negative press would ratchet, especially after Detroit would slip in strength. Losing 2 or more of the 4 for one guy wouldn’t make this team stronger, no matter who that one guy was. Also, I think that if any big name went to Detroit, they’d stop being a big name much like Finley stopped being a big name the minute he was used for the amnesty provision and relocated to San Antonio.

There is something seriously wrong with the marketing strategy of the NBA.

i don’t really understand the motivation of teams making promises to players unless the kid was on the fence about going pro. or unless you’re some bush league gm like danny ainge. but joe d ain’t bush-league and i don’t think stuckey’s in that position, so the report seems silly. or smoke by an agent to improve his client’s stock.

i wish there were some more rumors floating about re: the pistons’ plans with their picks/possible trades. june 28th is a long time away.

It sounds like most of the other garbage being written about this team, which was my point. Promises to Stuckey sounds like something the Lions would do if they were an NBA club, not the Pistons.

As for Chauncey’s numbers, the same can be said about any player’s career averages. Billups has improved his game significantly since he joined Detroit, and the career averages reflect how ordinary Chauncey was with Denver and Boston.

Only Antonio Daniels had a higher assist/turnover ratio in 06-07’s regular season. Chauncey had only one horrible series in the playoffs this year (Cleveland). I’m not selling Chauncey down the river over one bad series out of three.

The current offer is rumored to be 4 years, 13 million per, and I’m guessing Detroit will go higher than that to keep him because that precious little sellout streak the Pistons have going will cease if Billups leaves. You can’t wait 5 years for any Stuckey-like players to morph into a Billups.

According to DraftExpress.com, the Pistons have only two players scheduled for workouts as of yet: Brent Petway (6/11) and Mohamed Abukar (6/14). Another site explained the lack of workouts stemming from the team’s plans to be in San Antonio this week. Obviously that didn’t work out, and now almost all prospects are scheduled with other teams for the next few days.

I didn’t know Chauncey was so selfish too until you mentioned it Dave.

You can say it’s bad cause Zero takes more shots, but he shoots at the same percentage has Chauncey, and their three point stats from this past year were nearly identical

I doubt the Pistons made any promise. What workouts have they had?