buddha

if actually true, yes. they would have to be. unfortunately, we gave up our #1 pick already.

win this one and theyre back to being the favorite.

always liked wout. wears his heart on his sleeve. seixas is the biggest thing in france outside of their rugby/soccer teams. i assume he's doing the tour this year, but maybe they let him to the vuelta or giro instead so he has a chance to win. vingegaard is done. if seixas isnt up to it, the tour will be a foregone conclusion for tadej this year.

tadej never loses. gets a little boring.

A+ draft. maybe the second best draft in lions history after the one that brough sewell and amon ra.

bad news for mekhi wingo.

second round picks are allowed to play in the nhl? since when?

brad never listens to me. its very discouraging. i do all these mock drafts for you, brad!

skyler gill-howard undersized, injured defensive tackle. cool.

Elite

Trajan treated this team like he didnt believe in it. they didnt go for it. didnt make a big move. instead all he did was trade up in next year's draft. like he still doesnt think the pistons are good enough to get robin to cade's batman.

i think orlando is a bad matchup for detroit because theyre so big. i thought they'd beat orlando (and they still might) because orlando is soft and hate their coach. but not if duren is MIA and no one else shoots well other than cade. detroit can still win but they have to PLAY HARD for the whole game and cade has to be engaged for 40 minutes, not just the last 5. detroit would be favored over atlanta and new york and maybe toronto, but not cleveland or boston.

how much harder to defend would this team be if you swapped out duren for lauri markkanen? yeah yeah, he gets hurt a lot. i get it. but an elite 4/5 who can space the floor would allow cade so much more room. how about zion? someone - ANYONE - other than cade who can get their own shot. how about a wing who can shoot? you can have duren and ausar on the team but its hard to win with both of them because theyre both incapable of making a shot over 5 feet from the basket. they may have to choose this offseason.

all year long we've all (well, all of us that arent blinded by pretty stats against bad teams) said this team was flawed and cade dependent. all year long weve all said they are a try hard team who beats teams that dont care. all year long we said they didnt have enough spacing and teams would take away the lane/pick and roll come playoff time. and that's exactly what has happened so far. theyve played better than orlando in ONE quarter so far. thats it.

the whole team was **** other than ausar and tobias. and ausar showed his limitations late when they needed a bucket, they just left him alone and he wouldnt shoot. which is probably wise because he cant. same with duren. whenever he got the ball outside of the paint - which was rare - they left him alone. he either dribbled his way into a bad spot or forced a layup that he missed. put backs and lobs, that's all he can do.