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  1. Betrayer
    I'm with you 100%. Also, the Langdon situation gives me Weaver vibes. I was listening to a New Orleans reporter talk about his role and they basically said that there's no way of knowing what to attribute to Langdon since Griffin is the guy out front taking all the credit and that Langdon is happy to just hang back if there are other people who want to be in the spotlight. Of course they followed that up with, but "he's said to have a great basketball mind." The whole thing smells a lot like Weaver behind Sam Presti. Also touted as a "great basketball mind." Then you factor in Gores 0 for 5 track record on hiring GMs and Coaches (not counting the Dumars years) and it gets scary. I was pulling for Hammond or Connelly because at least we know what those guys have done and they've done it at more than one location. I guess time will tell. Langdon can buy some immediate trust from me if he fires Monty.
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    Do they hold press conferences to announce a President of Basketball Operations? Yes, of course they do. We're going on two weeks since the news "leak" and Trajan subsequently updating his X profile to Pistons PoBo. Have you seen a press conference scheduled? The Suns hired a new coach and held a press conference within 48 hours. An actual press conference with media. And yes, I'm sure they'll have one eventually. The point is that just like this entire season, the organization continues to be run like a company that's doing their best to avoid hard questions and hide rather than an actual NBA franchise. It's been a frequent story on every show that covers the Pistons. Have you been paying attention all season or are you just looking for a semantic argument about how different companies utilize their press releases?
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    2004 rules? I'm going with the Pistons. I'd love to see Draymond try to kick Ben in the balls or choke him out - even now. But in the current era that team wouldn't make it past the first quarter without everyone fouling out. The NBA got soft.
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    Yes, I spent many years in corporate leadership, I understand how press releases work. For that reason, I also understand how firms operate when they want to avoid the hard questions and duck the media. Friday press releases with carefully crafted illusions of open information are a great away to avoid the heat when your organization has been run like a clown show for years and you don't want to actually face your customers or the media. Lets not forget how they avoided the media all season when people were screaming for Tom or Troy to come out and discuss the state of the franchise during the losing streak. Or that they sent the players out there alone for exit interviews and nobody heard from Tom, Troy, or even Monty. Here we are 2 months later after hiring a PoBo and firing the GM and still we have nothing but under the radar Friday press releases and social media drops. Even the new PoBo updated his X account bio before this organization got around to making the announcement. Absolute clown show.
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    "Said Pistons owner Tom Gores" Who did he "say" this to? Where do these quotes come from? Was there a press conference where people actually got to ask real questions of this guy? Nope. It's just how the PR team decided to write it up to make it look like an interview happened and they aren't completely ducking all the media smoke as an organization.
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    What a joke of an organization. Friday news drops. No press conference. Tom had his PR team write up some blurbs to post to social media.
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    The two knocks on him are his abysmal defense and his age (23). He would be a legitimate scorer in year one but only plays one side of the ball and is probably pretty near his ceiling. In any normal draft he'd go somewhere in the 15-30 range, where he'd be a great fit for an already contending team needing a bench scorer that requires less development.
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    How many first rounds picks do we get with the salary dump? Sucks to start over, but I guess we could actually start doing what Weaver should've done from the start.
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    Yup. Proposed this a few weeks ago in the other thread based upon some chatter from Omari/Bryce: Blazers get pick #5, Fournier's expiring, and a young prospect (Sasser or Grimes or something) Pistons get pick #7, and Grant('s contract) Pistons still have about 40M in cap available after that. Portland is no longer capped out and they can actually do something to rebuild. Now go pick Devin Carter at 7, or maybe Knecht if you want a shorter version of Bogie.
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    Agreed. Eating Monty's contract is the thing that will show me they're serious.
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    Figured this might need its own thread.
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    Shams reporting that Detroit is parting ways with Troy. No word on Monty yet. I knew it would happen on a Friday. Gores runs this thing like another company in his portfolio, not a sports franchise.
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    The Langdon story broke last week and we've heard zero from the organization. I hope that means they're sorting out the Monty and Troy firings before an announcement next week and the PR team is just hard at work writing everyone's speeches.
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    This org is run like a joke. It's not just Monty and Troy, they need to clean house. Edit: Also, I'm glad to see that Omari continues to poke at this org when they drop the ball. Unlike JEIII, he's been getting a lot of respect from the fans for being more vocal on this type of stuff.
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    Yea, they may want to trade the pick. I’m sure the pistons do too. Doesn’t mean anyone wants it. Smells like a draft with a lot of talk and not a lot of movement.
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    Reed is #3 on my board and I would jump for joy if we landed him at 5 based upon what I'm seeing in this draft. But, he's not going to last that long. I'll take TJ McConnell with a 50% three ball, a 40" vert, and 3 stocks per game all day long. Worst case, he's your 6th man for a long, long time.
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    It's night and day between the playoffs and the regular season in the NBA. Far more physical and the refs let a lot go. I wish regular season basketball was officiated that way because it feels like defense is actually allowed. It definitely has an effect on finesse teams or soft players in the playoffs. But it's not why Centers are less important - that's because most of them can't guard the perimeter and teams strategize to exploit that in a 7 game series. If you can't switch on defense you're cooked.
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    After the game he said he puts up 1500 shots a day. The TNT crew called "BS" and beat him up about it big time. Also said he was soft and told him to, "get his big ass in the paint" multiple times.
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    Year after year. You can get away with it in the regular season, but the playoffs are all about finding mismatches and exploiting them. Arguably, the DPOY is the best of the best in that role, and even he's hurting his team on the court. They're actively hunting him play after play. And now the team is stuck between a rock and a hard place because you're paying this guy max money to sit on the bench during the playoffs. Should've spent that money on guys who will be on the court in every series, at the most important times of the game.
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    Dallas has been really surprising me. I guess I didn't watch enough of them down the stretch to see how well all of these parts are fitting together around Luka. Much as I hate Kyrie, I have trouble not rooting for Dallas in this matchup. Watching people hunt Gobert in the playoffs year after year has become something of a hobby of mine. Reid has been really good. He's the guy the Pistons hope Stewart can become. On another note, KAT has been benched in the 4th for Naz more than once in these playoffs. You have to think that owners in MIN who never pay the luxury tax might be thinking about making that a more permanent change this summer by shipping out his massive salary to someone like the Pistons.
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    100% the route I hope they go. Problem is, why would Monty want a buyout? Just to save a little face? Everyone will know it's actually a firing anyway and he can get the same result with 30M more dollars in his pocket. I see no reason why he would do that. I have to hope that Langdon (and Gores) have the guts to just fire the clown.
  22. Betrayer
    This. We're talking about hundreds of athletes that he represented. You can't throw a stone in the NBA without finding someone he's connected to. Most organizations would love to have a guy like that behind the scenes with all of the relationships he has around the league. Unfortunately, our franchise has been run into the ground so we're pointing fingers anywhere. It could be that Tellem is a problem, but then again most of the bad moves could be Gores pulling rank or Weaver doing his thing or a combination of all three. We'll never really know.
  23. Betrayer
    Both things are true. It's a bad roster and Monty was a horrendous coach. It's not just the fans calling this out, it got plenty of national media attention from respected guys like Sam Vecenie, Brian Windhorst, and more. Towards the end of the year, even the beat writers, who are notoriously adverse to making waves, started calling him out. His in-game coaching lost this team at least a half dozen games, his roster management was abysmal, player development actually impeded guys, and he straight up lied to the media over and over again about his intentions. He coached like a guy trying to get fired and everyone, not just Piston fans, saw it and called it out. imo, It's even more important to fire Monty than Weaver since Weaver now has a babysitter holding his puppet strings and making the final decisions. But if Monty is not fired, then I will have zero faith in Langdon from the start.
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    Another team that will start and finish their coaching search before we even have a PoBo to come in and fire Monty.
  25. Betrayer
    I'd love to bring KCP back. Perfect guy for this organization. They need a vet who's won at the highest level, plays defense, and can shoot the three. As a bonus, I still have his jersey since he was the only player on the team I actually really liked during that era. If I'm hunting a second star I'd rather that person be a wing/forward than another guard. Most successful teams have their big 2 players at different positions so they can run 2-man action that creates mismatches. You can't do that with Cade and Monk, it would just be your turn then my turn like Cade and Ivey. I've been out on Monk from the start. Plus, KCP will be about half the cost and actually plays defense. Side note, I wouldn't mind taking a long look at Gary Trent Jr, Bruce Brown, Isaac Okoro, Obi Toppin (RFA), Kelly Oubre, Caleb Martin, and Derrick Jones Jr in addition to everyone's favorites Claxton and Hartenstein. A lot of talk about this being a weak free agent class - and that's true in terms of stars - but there are some really solid role players out there that could help this team.
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