AlaskanTigersFan

Just curious... Scale of 1 to 10, how good is Trouba? (In your opinion.) If he's a 7 or above, he's a needle mover in the right direction no?

Just curious and please excuse my ignorance...... With everyone saying the Pistons have great players minus they can't shoot... How often do bad shooters become good to great shooters if they aren't already by the time they get drafted? Seems to me the muscle memory from 10+ years would make it near impossible to improve drastically no?

My plan - Pay all the best free agents as much money as possible for 1 year contracts. 1 month into season, no matter what our record is, trade them all for picks next year. Tank to get a high draft pick next year, then buy whatever free agents are in the market next year to suppliment 3-4 1st rounders next year and whoever else we kept. Rebuild over...... What's wrong w/ this plan?

From my understanding, Cade is a 1 way player. No defense what so ever and he turns over the ball a lot. Listen, I used to work at Montverde, so of course I love Cade just because of that. But if we need to tear down again, I'd rather do it now than do what Al Avila did to the Tigers and put us in purgatory for another 10 years......

More I think about this, the more I think Cade needs to be on the shopping block tonight like a girl on Woodward.....

I fly up to Michigan every year for a fantasy baseball draft on Valentines day weekend. Bruh, if NBA is to you like that is to me and your spouse knows that, you got MASSIVE kudos..... Like you said bank some points, that might be worth cashing in for like season tickets or something lol.

That literally looks like an entire team....

Is this actually something in hockey? Or is it basically a filler for like $5,000 down the line? Like could we get a 2nd in three years lets say? (Sorry, I don't know a lot about hockey.)

K. Then there's that..... Stevie your Goalie market is shrinking. Although I guess this is probably good. Now we don't give up the resources it would have cost to get this guy.....

I guess Yzerman is looking at the Boston Goalie at 5mil for the last year on his contract.... Sheeeeeesh.

All I'm saying is, who would you rather have if Goff did get hurt..... Sudfeld a career backup or a potential starter in Hooker? I'll go with the potential starter......

Isn't that one of the main guys the Pistons were going to target this offseason?

I think people forget, he was a top 5 draft pick before he got hurt............ I dunno how anyone non delusional can think about getting rid of this guy........

Flaherty will get 20 mil/year or like 22 million per year.... so 4 at 88 or something like that. TOPS would be 4 /100 mil.

K the reply isn't working properly. But sticking with the O's for comparison sake.... If they offered Holiday and lets say Cowswer for Greene, you'd say no to that?

This is basically dead on. Everyone on our roster should be on the table right now. Including Greene and Skubal. The Tigers are in no mans land and even with the farm system they have, they lack "ELITE" prospects barring Clark and Jobe. If the Tigers can trade Greene and/or Skubal and the return for either is two top 25 prospects plus two other top 100 prospects (or at least another top 100 prospect and someone semi decent), they need to seriously consider that. No one on this roster should be untouchable. Skubal is an Ace in this league. Those don't grow on trees which I can understand keeping him. But barring him, no one is a superstar. Greene is a first division regular but he's not on the superstar level. We need to get out of no mans land and it involves getting higher end prospects. If the O's offered me Basallo, Mayo, Cowser and either Povich or Norby for SKubal, I'd do that in a heartbeat. Or if they did Holliday, Mayo,Cowser and Povich for Skubal and McGonical. THOSE are the types of deals they need to make. Heck Corbin Burnes got two premium prospects and a 1st round pick for him.... Skubal's price should be ASTRONOMICAL. NOW is when they should cash it. Those are the types of deals that set up franchises for success. Gets us out of the no mans land we are in.

With all this talk about who pairs where and what not, help an illiterate hockey fan out. Who on our team is absolute slam dunk keepers. From my take its: Dylan Larken Seider Raymond Edvinson And from my understanding only Seider and Raymond are TRUE Superstars. I guess Larkin's star isn't nearly as shiny as he once was thought but still a good player. Is Edvinsson in the same caliber as Seider? Beyond those four, is there really any one else that is "untouchable" as far as the roster goes?

https://www.motownlions.com/2024/06/20/nfl-analyst-suggests-the-lions-trade-hendon-hooker-and-sign-veteran-quarterback-with-ties-to-dan-campbell/ Someone please explain this to me. Why would the Lions use a third rounder on this guy to trade him for a 4th or later? I don't understand why so many people want to trade Hendon Hooker. To me, if he can start somewhere else, that makes him a premium backup. Why not (if he's ready) use him as your backup, cut Nate Sudfeld or send him to the practice squad? To me, having HH around is a benefit. I think HH is better than Sudfeld now, and God forbid if Goff went down, who would we want out there? Also, Aaron Rodgers sat behind Brett Farve for YEARS just like Jordan Love sat behind Aaron Rodgers. I guess I'm not understanding why we wouldn't want a successor to be in our system for multiple years. Even if he isn't the successor, to have a premium backup at QB of all places isn't a bad thing is it? Who cares how old he is. He can play in the NFL for 10 years. If he's a premium backup for 10 years, so be it. What am I missing? P.S. - Ryan Tannehill is a good player. But he's looking for a job. So why would the Raiders as mentioned in this article trade a pick when they can sign Ryan without dumping a pick.... That too doesn't make sense. Now if some team offered a 1st rounder for HH, then we should pay someone to pack his bags. But anything else, forget about it.

I've had a little insider information so it is cool to be on the "know" for some small things. But I can tell you that it was hard this year because the Pistons didn't have veterans around to show the young kids "how to be pros". The Pistons tried to bring in some veterans later but my friend made a point when you have a rookie making $5mil a year and you sign a vet for $2 million for 2 years, do you really think the rookies going to listen to him? So Monty had to deal with some of that. Realistically, who on the Roster is worth building around? Cade, Duran and......? I don't think Cade is a franchise player that everyone thinks he is. My co-worker who used to be a D1 coach said even he was a little skeptical.... I think Cade can be a starter and a good one, but he's not the face of the franchise type from what I've seen. So who else besides those two is worth keeping around? Does the new GM (when we get one) just say we are "open for business" and we literally start all over again? Or are there pieces to build around. My buddy said we should overpay for someone like Klay Thompson to bring him in and get the culture shift there. But he mentioned no ones going to want to go to Detroit so we'll have to overpay for someone regardless. Curious to know all your thoughts on that..... Is it the start of a new rebuild or are there pieces here....

It's amazing how everyone was so excited when he was hired. Gores went out and paid "whatever it took" to get the BEST. After one year of a bum roster and everyone is happy now. I don't know... does't seem right but I don't know a lot about NBA. I hope Monty just shrugs and says "ok" while going to go buy a beach house today to put his feet up for the next 40 years.....

Williams is a good coach from everything I've heard. The team he was given was trash and injured on top of that. No one could of won with the guys he had and dealing with the injuries he had to deal with. Dumb move imo. Should have given him one more year to see what happens. Will be interesting to see what happens next.

so when does nba free agency start now?

Thanks for the perspective. It seems like the Red Wings are kind of stuck in no mans land. They aren't quite good enough to be legit NHL contenders, but they have a lot of young pieces that are just now coming to be expensive so they can't really go and sign the players to push them over the edges because they have too much money tied up into the young players they are hoping to be superstars. Is that a fair assessment?

So where's the value that other teams will see in him? Maybe he's not worth as much to be a cornerstone of a trade?