Whatever happens, I think Amir Johnson needs to be a part of that 2nd unit. The Pistons have proved over the last 2 years that home court means nothing if you don’t have enough in the tank.

I think they should try and move up for Conley.

I’d also try for Grant (he could be dangerous in the post season) and package Nazr and Dupree/Delfino for a center, but that may have to be a draft position.

I don’t think any of the PGs that will be available at 15 will develop into bonafide starter.

I kinda leaning toward Splitter. Seems like a more skilled, less flop-prone version of Blanca (er, I mean, Varejao).

So don’t put words where there aren’t for me.

“umm Carlos Arroyo is your answer to pure PG off the bench? No matter what salary you pay him, it’s too much.”

When Carlos is coming off the bench, he’s best served against another team’s backup point guard while the starter rests. If he’s trying to ball against and then stop Billups, Nash, and Kidd, well yeah, he’s going to get toasted on both ends, especially on defense against Billups and Kidd.

A horrible point guard, for comparison with Arroyo, is Sarunas Jasikevicius. As inconsistent as Arroyo was, since Mike James, he’s been the best direct sub that Detroit’s had for Billups.

And if Delfino was all that special, he should be getting 20-25 mpg and a regular rotation in the playoffs already, and that doesn’t seem like a lock to happen because in the years he’s been here, Delfino doesn’t consistently apply himself from the bench, which is where Arroyo’s blame in Detroit should be placed, beyond that reason of salary. Delfino apparently seems to want to start and be the man at SG or SF on Detroit before he’ll ever live up to potential from the bench, but Detroit wants to see consistency every night and earn the minutes before that happens. This isn’t Atlanta, where a new young kid gets instant burn every year.

No more foreigners or mainlanders of that type, not on this team. Too many of the foreigners have Darko Disease, and too few of them are as useful as Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, of which no one could ever dissuade me that Ginobili being held to 3 points makes him less than a 4-star player. As for the mainlanders, they have the same problem, but it’s even more foolish because they ought to know that the NBA is clearly leaps and bounds better than Eurobasket or any other off-shore outfit for talent.

I appreciated your toe-to-toes with the maniacal Chicago fans over at BlogaBull, so I’m not against you, Boney, for real. Apologies if it ever seemed that way.

Draft Law, or Crittenton (Crittenton will most likely be there). Flip Murray can stay or Acker can take his spot. Which ever. Delfino can backup Tay and a little Rip so he gets more mins then Flip/Acker.

I don’t like the idea of Hill coming unless Flip murray is gone, since we really don’t need to give Saunders another reason to bench Delfino.

Oh and random note: Verlander with the no hitter!

Delfino should be the 1st SG/SF off the bench for Detroit. Again, this isn’t NBA Live 07, Delfino is the best option at swingman we’re going to get off the bench for the salary we have this off-season unless we deal Rip (which we should do) or anyone else.

Again, my question is: Why not take some of the talent that the media hypes up and deal it for quantity? It’s harder than it sounds, but you can get some serviceable guys to plug the holes left behind by Webber and Davis and you can also possibly dump the Nazr salary to a team looking to pickup a guy like Rip or Sheed.

As much as i’d like Law or Crittenton it just seems like there are to many teams with PG needs for them to slip to us.

Splitter could probably start at C right away and Green has been on the big stage plenty and could back up Chauncey pretty well I think.

With a lineup of
C- Splitter with McDyess, Maxiell, and Johnson off the
PF- Sheed bench at the C and PF spots
SF- Prince Delfino
SG- Rip Murray
PG- Billups Green

I’m starting to like the idea of Grant Hill coming back as long as he doesnt want to start. Though we could go small as a starting lineup. He would give us someone who could handle the ball, slash and score from the bench.

I’m not sure it’s worth it for Acker to comeback this year if he’s not gonna have decent guaranteed minutes. We’d have to move Murray to get him some minutes I think. I would like to see Sambh play the NBDL this year. It would let us keep a close eye on him and even get him some preseason burn. Same with Blalock I think. Of course if Blalock can play maybe a guy like Morris Almond that can fill it up at SG.

I dunno what JoeD is gonna do. He’s got a lot of options. Draft day cant come soon enough for me.

Joe D has a tough few months ahead and once the Chauncey situation is settled the chips will fall into place.

Let’s just hope this off-season we get better compliments to the team. Murray and Nazr just don’t belong.

If the emphasis will really be on playing young talent- I don’t see how that can happen with Flip as the coach. he doesn’t trust the younger players.

If we trade Sheed it will be a huge hole to fill. Yes he makes everyone crazy with his attitude but his skills overcome that. We need his shot blocking and low post presence. I’m not sure he and Flip can coexist though which is troubling.

All I remember is last season this is what was said and it seems all tooo familiar….

- There really is nothing positive to say about Detroit’s play in Game 6, or in this series for that matter. The Pistons looked pretty lifeless on both ends and let the Heat shoot 55.7%; they let the Heat shoot 51.5% for the entire series, not very Piston-like. The offense was equally putrid once again, adding to their overall subpar play in this series, which they shot nearly 6 points lower than their 45.5% in the reg. season. The Pistons actually got a bunch of good looks in this game, but they just could not hit. Rip was the only guy who seemed to bring any aggresiveness with 33 pts in Game 6. But Rip was off from the field just like the rest of his team in this series–Rip shot 37.8% overall, he shot 49% in the entire reg. season. Sheed shot 36%, Billups hit 39% of his shots, and Prince shot the best in this series with only 44%.

-Basically in the last 2 rounds, the Pistons had chronic problems getting any type of rhythm going on offense and were a shell of their reg. season self. I am not really sure why. Was it something with Flip? Was it something with the players? Or was it just that their reg. season record was somewhat deceiving cause the Pistons were extremely lucky they had no injuries. That last fact can’t not be underrated.

Oh well its off to watch the Cavs and Spurs for game 3. Let’s see if the Cavs can stop emabarrasing the East.