gehringer_2

Ivey on Porzinghis?

this seems the likeliest case.

Turnovers, and more turnovers...

Killian misses a bunny then throws it away.

Cade trying to guard Porzingis in the paint? Nope.

If the Piston's keep this up Johnny Kane may have a stroke before he makes it to the end of the game...

Would Bogdanovic's defense be any better even if he did try?

Have to consider that after they get a game or two past the record they could really check out.

it's not going to happen but it would be very rich if the Scotus were to find itself in opposition to an actual majority of the state Supreme Courts around the nation.

IDK how you sum it up. Maybe it's that the internet has given us all permission to be our worst selves.

Nothing wrong with the cheese part tho....

yeah - the idea that forcing a #4 DB to go against a #1 level receiver would be a big advantage isn't wrong per se, but it ignores that a football team is a 'weakest link' enterprise, and that if you don't spend your draft capital to shore up your weakest areas, you will be the one being over matched in those areas of the game and you will never get to where your receiver mismatch wins you any games. And of course as noted, he was doomed anyway because he drafted bad receivers.

well, to stay with the nautical metaphors - ANY PORT IN A STORM!

This is a tough call. Russ Thomas may have been the most irritating, but Russ was actually succeeding in doing what he and WCF wanted to do, which was keep enough flash (Owens/Sims/Sanders etc) on the team to keep 'fannies in the seats' without he or WCF ever having to work hard at the actual details of team building. So his failure was as much by design. So it comes down to Millen vs Weaver - who have in common that neither had/has the slightest clue how to build a team for the league their team is in, always a solid 1st step toward ignominy for anyone arriving at a GM gig. Millen of course has the longer tenure to his (dis)credit, but three of Millen's teams were merely mediocre as opposed to terrible. Weaver OTOH, took a bad team and then managed to take it the rest of the way to terrible and then made it incrementally worse each year since, while simultaneously gutting the team's prospects to ever get out of the hole he has dug. This combination of feats, in the end, stands alone and above all the other GM ineptitude in Detroit history despite his having achieved it in a mere 4 yrs.

yeah - I think I had his 22/23 stats reversed and was thinking he was coming off a 230 BA at AA. Lots of walks in his OBP, (esp at AFL) which is both good and bad. Great that he walks, always questionable how much of the walk rate will translate against better pitching. That they are grooming him for 3rd should help get him to Det quick. Tigers don't have much cooking at 3b unless Vierling is able to run with a chance there.

They have a group of gifted young athletes, but not a one of them can shoot the basketball, which means that whatever else they may be, they will never be the 'core' of a competitive NBA basketball team until/unless they can.

I know there is plenty of potential in Clark and Jung, but until they put up some OBP numbers somewhere there are still 'over the horizon' guys. Keith, Malloy, Bigbie are of most immediate interest, and of the new guys McGonigle is the one who has hit the ground running.

It's hard to conceive that Cunningham is willing to stay with the Pistons, in which case at some point they are going to have to preserve some value by trading him.

And what is with all the breakaways they are giving up? Don't remember seeing that last season or even earlier this year. Yeesh

2-1 at the end of 2. Should be at least 3-1. Reimer has had to stop multiple wide open breakaways. And through two coaching regimes and a ton of players that have come and gone, and it remains true that the Wings are consistently terrible in the last minute of play of a period.

He is one more made 3 per roughly 15 attempts away from being a great player. Doesn't seem like much when you put it that way, but it's a mountain he's having trouble climbing. (OK maybe he needs a better handle as well.)

Well, that is a little complicated - it varies. Salmonella (biggest threat with Chicken) and their toxin is destroyed by cooking, Staph Aureus toxin (also common) is not.

and they had the best years of Dennis Rodman's career, which was certainly something to behold, though whether iconic is appropriate I couldn't say.... TBF - someone else besides Detroit gave the Bad Boys props as 4 players from 88-89 are in the Hall of Fame -- though Dantley was gone at mid-season.

need to mod that graphic to have thrown connecting rods....

And that is why the Pistons and Lions get 'storied' - because they are pre-expansion/charter members of their leagues. Maybe 'legacy' would be the more accurate word but that's the sense in which many commentators use the language.