Comments on: Alex Acker gets bumped in Spain

By: No D-League for Walter Sharpe | Detroit Bad Boys

No D-League for Walter Sharpe | Detroit Bad Boys — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:53:53 +0000

[…] to the training camp roster, which was something I suspected was coming ever since someone left this completely random and defensive comment on a one-year-old post this past weekend. Nice to see Alex’s family has discovered […]

By: CACK

CACK — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:08:47 +0000

Yo let me just say this to you Acker haters, short and sweet. Go to the local footlockers, somerset mall, Dick’s sporting goods etc… and get Your official Alex Acker Detroit Piston Jersey!!! hahahahaha the real #6 is back in the building! Yo you dudes really shouldn’t be allowed to post unless you have two things, 1. A clue 2. Have ever played basketball. Catch and Jump Shooter hahahahaha!!! Jump back on the band wagon is what you’ll need to do!!! DEEEETROIT BASKETBALL!

By: Summer league roster set | Detroit Bad Boys

Summer league roster set | Detroit Bad Boys — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:18:02 +0000

[…] For what it’s worth, Ohad was equally as disenchanted with former (and future?) Piston Alex Acker, who averaged just 5.5 points a game in the regular season and playoffs last year for Barcelona. In Acker’s defense, he was apparently playing through a knee injury. […]

By: Men

Men — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:43:47 +0000

Sorry for the double post, just to add that his team was 1 point behind, 25 seconds from the buzzer and this could have been a championship point.

By: Men

Men — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:39:20 +0000

Well, Alex Acker was responsible for one of the Greek Basketball League’s highlights for the 2006-7 season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFlieI0X4Rg

To be fair to the poor guy, the opponent is one of the top 2-3 PGs in Europe and named Defender of the Year in Europe threee times in a row.

By: warlock

warlock — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:25:56 +0000

wow all i have to say is wow pg4l your good bro find somthin else to do wit your time instead of wrighting blogs if your gonna sit around know it all why not get paid for it lol!!!!!!get your weight up!!!lol if it allready anitlol last comment im making i honestly beleive when you start puting guys parents on message forums you have no life bro !

By: LawyerBoy

LawyerBoy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:06:32 +0000

“plus be fair, he’s good looking, he really is”

PG4L I know you’ve said you’re finished talking about Acker, but in spite of the fact that you are a deeply respected mainstay on this blog, I’ve got to vehemently disagree on this bold claim. Acker looks to me like a C-rate Terrence Howard, and I’m not sure even A-rate Terrence Howard is a glowing compliment. To each their own, I suppose.

By: PistonsGirl4Life

PistonsGirl4Life — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:35:16 +0000

Sorry for the triple post, trying desperately to find a bar to watch the game tonight inbetween searching for Acker clips and all this nonsense. However I did just realize the need to pre-empt the response I know is coming next. So before Alex Acker’s mom also weighs in please let me state:

If someone, someplace has film of Acker breaking guys down and I just haven’t seen it, feel free to direct me. My speakers suck but I get video feeds just fine on this computer. I consider myself at least resonably knowledgeable about basketball (though I still can’t tell you if Lebron James is a SG, SF or just the Devil) but watching him on tape I think it speaks volumes that I thought he was a 6′3″ point guard… He’s really just not very “explosive”, at least on ANY tape I’ve seen. Nor does his height/length particularly stand out. He’s no Greg Ostertag but he doesn’t seem all that co-ordinated. At this point I’d be willing to accept home video from pickup games at Perperdine just to believe the guy has some tricks.

Now with that I swear I’m done talking about Alex Acker until NEXT offseason. I would never have believed in a million years I’d ever make 6 or 7 posts about that guy in my LIFETIME let alone a few days. To Alex, his entourage and his mom….. Peace and GOODWILL BROTHER and yes I sincerely mean that. I’d like nothing better than to see the guy score 20 points in a Piston’s uniform some day very soon.

By: PistonsGirl4Life

PistonsGirl4Life — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:53:15 +0000

BTW, sickly enough I just realized that I have no trouble believing he could beat of Ronald Dupree at SF….. and that’s despite this entire exchange forcing me to review all those clips again.

Dear golly I hope Jarvis Hayes is at least average.

By: PistonsGirl4Life

PistonsGirl4Life — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:50:19 +0000

Matt, I’m REALLY not sure the guy has the moves to play 2 in the NBA but okay, replace one first rounder with another (though word is Stuckey is way better) and I’m still not seeing the man’s “chance to shine”.

The sad fact is I hold a soft spot for the guy too (plus be fair, he’s good looking, he really is) but there is NO WAY some local homer can possible declare me blind for not seeing how freaking awesome the guy is… His window closed here when we drafted 3 guys who can play his spot…. even if that IS shooting guard (Though again I’m really not sure the man is athletic enough to do that in the NBA, I’d like to say FOR SURE but it’s not like I got to see him play much for the Pistons. I get all the highlights from Europe you guys get plus I read alot of Chad Ford et all)… I’ll give you that he’s 6′5″ but do you realize I didn’t KNOW that until I read his NBA.COM bio and while I admitt that I haven’t seen him play ALOT (see above) I have seen him play.

Plus this is ENTIRELY besides the fact that all I ever said was “I don’t think the guy has the moves or the shot to play in the NBA but he seems pretty good in Greece”. He did NOT look particularly good here. He DOES look pretty decent on the clips posted from last year’s Euroleague playoffs but as was discussed above that isn’t even CLOSE to the same game as the NBA. Somehow that’s failing to understand how hard he’s trying? Wha?

Point Guard, Shooting Guard, Combo Guard, just “Guard” (as NBA.Com lists him) or Swingman (as the article lists him) the guy doesn’t look like an NBA player even on HIGHLIGHT CLIPS from last year.

By: Matt Gibson

Matt Gibson — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:16:35 +0000

Acker is a sg though so he wouldn’t be the third pg. I really don’t see a future for Acker unless Afflalo is a bust or he can’t play sf. But I can see Acker making the roster next season with Hayes, Murray, and Hunter all becoming free agents (Hunter will retire). So next season is Acker chance with the pistons.

By: PistonsGirl4Life

PistonsGirl4Life — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:09:02 +0000

A catch and jump shooter is a player who doesn’t have the handle (your boy) or athleticism (your boy again) to create his own shot. Therefore his best option to score is to “catch” the ball and then immediately take a “jump shot”. Sometimes this type of shooter thrives in NCAA and European basketball but because this skill set is so common has virtually no place in the NBA unless he’s a dead-shot.

This has been basketball education 101. Guess they don’t teach that on the left coast.

PS, just so we are clear I’m quite happy to hear that Alex is okay. Perhaps after another year of seasoning he’ll have what it takes to contribute to the Piston’s roster. Of course by that time Rodney Stuckey will have taken the job he was drafted for and it’s highly unlikely he’d be more than the 3rd PG and say 11th or so on the depth chart at best. That having been said you are quite right, I’ll be incredibly happy to trade in my Flip Murray #6 for an Alex Acker #6 just as soon as I get around to buying jerseys for bit piece role players whose main value to the squad is costing less than dirt.

“You should never use basketball terminology, thats what you never should do again if you don’t do anything else.”

This is what I mean by barely in english. Parsed according to standard english you’ve just told me that should I ever decide to never do ANYTHING again, I should never use basketball terminology. That’s not a diss it’s a remedial school teacher’s essay nightmare. Like I told the last guy, come again and come harder next time cheif.

Seriously though, tell Alex I said hi… and to develop a crossover.

By: CAck

CAck — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:33:25 +0000

pistons girl what do you know anyway. CATCH AND JUMP SHOOTERS what is that. You should never use basketball terminology, thats what you never should do again if you don’t do anything else.

By: CACk

CACk — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:27:42 +0000

Lol, barely in english, develop another move, log onto youtube.com type in Alex Acker. 7 fans? Like my man Warlock said your a joke in the worse possible way. Brotha the entire West Coast reps Alex Acker, yo tell Flip Murray have that #6 nice and clean for him next year. Can’t wait to see your faces next year. Yo you know what next year when he’s on the floor, you die hard piston fans on this blog with negative comments, make sure you buy his jersey and carry some very apologetic signs lol. 80’s baby…

By: Keegan

Keegan — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:09:46 +0000

Especially when nobody’s lambasting him…
Actually, I’ve always had a soft spot for him after reading a story where he, Amir, and JMax would go shopping, and supposedly Alex was really frugal with his money. I think it was in the Detroit News or Free Press, but it was probably a year and a half ago. I figured that spoke volumes about his character and priorities.
The Charlie Bell comparison might be apt, and certainly isn’t a knock on Acker. They seem to be following similar paths, and one might note that Bell dissects us every time we play the Bucks, and continues improving his game.
BTW, I’ve never had more confidence about the decisions I’m making, whether personally, scholastically, or professionally. Regardless of all of these factors, one should feel free to comment on an athlete’s performance on a MESSAGE BOARD DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF ATHLETES. If AckerMania explodes, then we’ll all look a little sheepish, and so much the better. Or he’ll continue kicking Spanish backsides up and down the floor. He wins, either way.
God forbid Coach Flip’s entourage ever finds this board, LOL.