btw, during the game I was looking up Killian's stats and in his last 10 games his 3% was back to 26%.
Guys more willing to call out the fans who've endured absolute shit for a decade now than any player or coach or GM. This media market is filled with schills, but he may be the worst.
Just renewed my Athletic subscription for 24 bucks just so I can continue to click meh on every 3dwards article for the next 12 months
And to be clear, I think Wagner made a very dirty play and Killian was right to deck him. Just making fun of JL3, 3.
Sometimes you read a post or a tweet and get mad you didn't think of saying it first. This tweet is one of those times. Gold.
Are we looking at a 5 game suspension for Killian. It would be hilarious if he missed the game in France. What would Edwards have to write about?
Made some good money betting against the Pistons last night....Nerlens Noel was the only player in the lineup that was a PF or C. Pistons are only 6.5 pt underdogs to Minnesota tonight. If they roll out that same lineup tonight, hard to see them keeping within 6.5 of any NBA team.
Of course because I'm a big dumbo. Bogdanovic didn't play the the previous night..so, not the same...still surprised by the result.
Bojan Bogdanović Maybe more than any player in the NBA, the 33-year-old forward has been a hot topic of trade rumors over the last month. It’s easy to understand why. Bogdanović, a career bucket-getter, is in the midst of his best offensive season. He’s averaging a career-best 21.2 points while shooting 41.5 percent from 3, and entering Saturday, Bogdanović had scored at least 20 points in each of his last eight games, tied for the longest such streak of his nine-year career. Teams around the league with — at minimum — playoff aspirations have looked at where Bogdanović is at in this moment of his career and assessed the Pistons’ priorities in an effort to pry away the Croatian forward from the Motor City. While Detroit has aspirations to be more competitive next season — and Bogdanović would surely help make that happen — the Pistons aren’t opposed to moving him, league sources say. However, they’re not anxiously trying to deal him, either, as they value not only his on-court play but the leadership he’s brought to the young team. Per league sources, the price tag to acquire Bogdanović appears to be, at the very minimum, an unprotected first-round pick. As the trade deadline inches closer, the sense is there is a decent chance Detroit’s front office will get offered the pick it is looking for, which would then prompt the team to seriously weigh the risk and reward of departing with a known quality player for an uncertain asset.
I know team is young, I know their best player is hurt, but this team is absolute garbage. Need lottery luck again or it's going to be rough for a couple years at least
the draft isn’t good outside the top 2 picks. If you don’t land Victor at 1, you’re stuck taking Scoot at 2, who can’t fucking shoot. So now we would be stuck with 4 guards who can’t shoot the 3 (Cade, Killian, and Ivey).
I don’t know if I agree about the top 2 take, but they’re definitely the top of the draft. Taking scoot definitely means other moves though
I finally stopped following Omari Sankofa last week. I'm going to unfollow Edwards soon, too, which means I'll probably end up forgetting the Pistons exist for a while unless this thread is bumped. Maybe that's for the best. Those guys are just completely ignorant as to how the stuff they write actually sounds, and they make it so much worse by responding to anything that isn't complete agreement with them with lectures on how everyone has unrealistic expectations about everything. And the new Twitter format actually makes it worse because every time I open the app I get more of their tweets than I otherwise would because it shows all their stupid responses to people that don't show up in the normal time line.
The fact that James refuses to accept any criticism of this staff, front office or team and always responds with variations of "it's hard to rebuild" has made me tune him out completely. The insistence on trying to sell some awful moves as good is also unbearable (see the Killian Hayes stuff where he wants to compare him to former 7th overall picks instead of the player we actually drafted him instead of). Flat out refuses to knock that pick.
They love to talk about the Blake contract like it was an albatross that gave them no flexibility. They had $30M in cap room Weaver's first offseason, which they spent on Grant and Plumlee. They had $15-20M in space in the summer of 21, which they spent immediately on Olynyk. They had $20-30M again last summer, if I'm not mistaken, which they used to trade for the contracts of Burks and Noel for picks. Last week, Omari had a tweet that was something along the lines of "if you only look at the players taken in the lottery in 2020, Killian would still probably be picked 7th". What the hell kind of sorcery is that? It's all disingenuous nonsense and then they come to each other's defense like somehow it's on everyone else who sees through it. It's beyond embarrassing.
I don't do nba advanced stats so apologize if I'm using a shit stats But of 60 players drafted in 2020, Killian is 58th in win shares (#59 and 60 haven't played a minute), 50th in win shares per minute, 41st in box score plus/minus and 57th in VORP. Haliburton btw is #1 in two of those, 2nd in a third. But clearly it was a good pick and don't dare ever questioning it
Everything about all the Plumlee transactions was weird. In the end, the Plumlee deal is directly linked to the Bogdanovic deal, so it's kind of hard to get mad at it in hindsight. But it's not like they planned it that way. They just got lucky a dumb move was rewarded.
Good to know nothing they've done counted until 1.5 years ago. Because historically tanking teams couldn't have bad contacts while rebuilding