buddha

fully healthy they are behind cleveland. i think they've passed the knicks because cade is now better than brunson. behind boston for sure. philly? they will never be "fully healthy" so it doesnt really matter. but a healthy embiid would destroy the pistons. without cade the pistons are 50/50 to get bounced in round one.

raymond is young, on a great contract, and has provided nothing the last two years in crunch time? would you trade him? you could get a king's ransom for him. as mad as i am at him, i probably wouldnt deal him. he's still young. if they could get a guy like tuch to be on line one, it might be different. i supppse that's what mbn or bear is supposed to eventually be. trying to thread the needle between larkin/debrincat's prime and seider/raymond's prime is proving difficult.

will okc sit half their team too?

the best part is now we dont havr to watch that stupid christian laettner shot over and over again while the announcers fellate duke. they can show the shot that BEAT duke over and over. the sad part is that it wasnt coach k's arrogant ass on the sideline that had to endure it. scheyer may not be a rhodes scholar, but he doesnt come across as a hypocritical smug jack ass like "coach k."

jon scheyer is from the (rich) suburbs of chicago. i used to work for a guy whose kids went to the same high school. said scheyer was dumber than a box of rocks. now that was a long time ago, and he did go to duke (lol) so maybe he's picked up some smarts over the years, but still... then again, you dont have to be smart to coach sports.

its depressing. three years in a row its the same thing. will larkin cry about not getting enough help at the deadline this year? yzerman really needs someone - anyone - outside of seider/raymond/edvinsson to step up and do something. and if theyre not, ****ING TRADE THEM FOR SOMETHING. and quite frankly, can lucas raymond get some stick? doesnt your supposed best offensive player need to step it up? i know what happened two years ago, but he's been pretty quiet this year and last when they needed him.

honestly, i've lost interest. i just assume theyre going to roll over and lose. (until they win a game and then i'm right back in it)

horrible coaching job.

Dusty March

theyre just not good enough.

big ten continues to roll.

that was a huge huge win.

if they went full tank, the move would have been to trade larkin.

i certainly dont feel he's some evil genius like you do, that he's holding back detroit sports teams by pinching pennies. this tigers' summer sort of undercut your thesis on that one. i think he's a nepo baby who hasnt done the work like his dad did. i'm not sure why you think otherwise.

you "think its pretty certain" based on what? again, you put stock in illitch having a plan other than yzerman falling into his lap and him saying "ok." i think its more likely yzerman said "i'll take the job, but the farm system is **** and it will take ten years to rebuild and i want him, him, him, and him to come to my staff and a budget for whatever i want." yzerman had all the leverage and illitch has no history of knowing anything about hockey or any connections in the league to make a judgment on who to hire.