2/27 8:00 Pistons @ Bulls

[Tigeraholic1]

[buddha]

drummond has a better jumper than ausar.

[buddha]

thank your lucky stars you dont have to listen to stacy king announce this game.

[buddha]

STAY ON YOUR FEET AUSAR!

derozan taking him to school.

[buddha]

caruso mugs cade.  no call.

[Deleterious]

Cade has been fantastic lately.  

[Deleterious]

20 turnovers and they still win.

[buddha]

bulls were 2/29 from 3.

the pistons have 9 wins on the season and 2 against the bulls.

[Deleterious]

With Washington losing tonight that means we are now tied with them for the worst record in the league.  Queue up the Jeffersons theme song.  

[Deleterious]

 

[RandyMarsh]

Right when Cade starts to pick it up offensively and shoot well Ivey goes back to playing like crap. I swear they can never play well at the same time. 

[buddha]

its always nice to beat the bulls, but they won this game because the bulls couldnt shoot.  they werent missing contested jumpers, they were missing EVERYTHING.  badly.

2/29 from 3.  for an nba team?

[buddha]

ausar thompson had almost as many made 3s as the whole bulls team.

[Betrayer]

Good to see a win despite Monty's attempts to bungle it. Starters were +24 and the bench was -14.

This coach can't figure out how to stagger his two best creators so we have to watch the Malachi Flynn creation show with 4 other bench guys. It's just a mind boggling level of ineptitude from this coaching staff.

And now Muscala's has been waived, making that trade even worse, but also clearing the way for Wiseman to play heavy minutes for the remainder of the year.

[NYLion]

32 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

Good to see a win despite Monty's attempts to bungle it. Starters were +24 and the bench was -14.

This coach can't figure out how to stagger his two best creators so we have to watch the Malachi Flynn creation show with 4 other bench guys. It's just a mind boggling level of ineptitude from this coaching staff.

And now Muscala's has been waived, making that trade even worse, but also clearing the way for Wiseman to play heavy minutes for the remainder of the year.

It was a good trade (getting rid of B&B in itself was good) but, yeah, Monty's rotations are baffling.

Edited February 28, 2024 by NYLion

[buddha]

19 minutes ago, NYLion said:

It was a good trade (getting rid of B&B in itself was good) but, yeah, Monty's rotations are baffling.

muscala trade wasnt the b&b trade, it was the bagley salary dump that we had to give two picks away to do.

[gehringer_2]

57 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

This coach can't figure out how to stagger his two best creators

I haven't been a big enough basketball fan over the years to have a sense over this, but I'm pretty sure all the years I followed basketball more closely when I was younger, substitutions were mostly always individual, coaches would give one or two players a blow, or sub for match-ups in for length or shooting  - e.g the way Vinnie J was used. So I can't say that I have any memory of the concept of complete 1st and 2nd teams having traditionally been a thing in basketball. It makes me curious what drives the concept. Is there some evidence more successful team have gone to it? Or maybe just with so many guys that come into the league without long college careers players don't have the game experience to have learned how to adjust to playing with more than one set of teammates?

Edited February 28, 2024 by gehringer_2

[NYLion]

44 minutes ago, buddha said:

muscala trade wasnt the b&b trade, it was the bagley salary dump that we had to give two picks away to do.

Damn, my bad. I think I just blocked that trade out of my memory. I think that was a fine trade too to get Bagley off the team for one and, two, to get his extra year contract off the books. Nothing groundbreaking but getting rid of these one dimensional defensively deficient players (The Team Ball Killer B's) can only be a good thing. On the other hand, getting Bagley in the first place and then doubling down on stupidity by paying him is another story.

Edited February 28, 2024 by NYLion

[buddha]

so the pistons dont play muscala after he made a decently successful debut.  obviously better than wiseman. and then buy him out so he's free to join a contender.

tell me again who his agent is?

[Betrayer]

4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I haven't been a big enough basketball fan over the years to have a sense over this, but I'm pretty sure all the years I followed basketball more closely when I was younger, substitutions were mostly always individual, coaches would give one or two players a blow, or sub for match-ups in for length or shooting  - e.g the way Vinnie J was used. So I can't say that I have any memory of the concept of complete 1st and 2nd teams having traditionally been a thing in basketball. It makes me curious what drives the concept. Is there some evidence more successful team have gone to it? Or maybe just with so many guys that come into the league without long college careers players don't have the game experience to have learned how to adjust to playing with more than one set of teammates?

Actually, quite the opposite. Most successful teams stagger the substitutions so one of their top 3 players are in the game at all times. I have no idea what drives this mindset from Monty (or from Casey, who used to do it as well). I can only imagine it's because it's easier to manage. I guess you can't pay a guy 78M and expect him to be able to figure out something that every coach from high school on is smart enough to handle.

[Deleterious]

I'm guessing he does that because the starters are the future core.  The bench against NYK was Grimes, Flynn, Wiseman, Fournier, and Evbuomwan.  Only one of those guys has a future with this team.  He probably views the core playing heavy minutes as a unit is more important for future development than 2-3 extra wins this year you get by staggering the lineup.

Edited February 28, 2024 by Deleterious

[casimir]

7 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

I'm guessing he does that because the starters are the future core.  The bench against NYK was Grimes, Flynn, Wiseman, Fournier, and Evbuomwan.  Only one of those guys has a future with this team.  He probably views the core playing heavy minutes as a unit is more important for future development than 2-3 extra wins this year you get by staggering the lineup.

This is the only rationale that makes sense.  I can see that angle of the argument.  If this is a development season, and record be damned, then play the core together as much as possible now to realize the fruits of it later on.

But it’s just a tough look right now in the present.  I don’t know if he’s done this in the past with younger teams or not.  Hopefully it works if that’s the madness behind it.

It also runs contrary to keeping playing time earlier in the season for guys like Ivey and Sasser.  Perhaps don’t go so heavy on Sasser because this is his rookie season, and the transition going from 35 college games to 80 pro games can be tough.  But you still want him to break that wall this season, not next season.

[gehringer_2]

39 minutes ago, casimir said:

If this is a development season,

Counter arg is that as part of their development, Cade and Ivy should both learn how to optimize their own and each other's game both together and apart since if they both stay each should be on the floor when the other isn't but also mostly together - QED.

Edited February 28, 2024 by gehringer_2

[Betrayer]

6 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Counter arg is that as part of their development, Cade and Ivy should both learn how to optimize their own and each other's game both together and apart since if they both stay each should be on the floor when the other isn't but also mostly together - QED.

Yep. That's why I don't buy the "core" argument, especially from a coach that had to be told to play Ivey instead of Killian. As you said, their future roles involve them starting and finishing together, but also being staggered. Plus, Monty has done this full line change stuff since the start of the season, so it just seems to be his thing.

[casimir]

14 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Counter arg is that as part of their development, Cade and Ivy should both learn how to optimize their own and each other's game both together and apart since if they both stay each should be on the floor when the other isn't but also mostly together - QED.

That's true as well.  Its a matter of which theory one wants to subscribe to.

Edited February 29, 2024 by casimir