With three 2nd round picks all within nine slots of each other, the chance that Joe goes with a couple foreigners we don’t know really anything about is, what, 50%? 75? 90? Personally, it would be a little anti-climatic if that is Joe’s desired route, but then again, stashing foreign talent overseas for a few years is not all that bad of an idea. But it sure the hell makes it more interesting when your team selects players you’ve seen and heard about for a few years.
Of course, Joe did select three college players from last year’s draft, so my worrisome thinking [...]

     
With the NBA draft almost a month away I figure I’ll start my own coverage of it by looking at all of Joe D’s drafts.
You can’t get this kind of coverage anywhere else people.
2000
1st, 14th- Mateen Cleaves
2nd, 44th- Brian Cardinal
Cardinal turned out to have a better career than about half the players drafted in the first round, including Cleaves, sadly.
2001
1st, 9th- Rodney White
2nd, 38th- Mehmet Okur
Rodney has not appeared on NBA soil since 2005, mainly because he was allergic to defense, but probably because he’s a few cards short of a full deck too. He has played in places such as Puerto Rico, China, Spain, [...]

No player’s game to game performance and attitude have ever elicited so many different emotions from me as Rasheed Wallace’s have. Being a level headed fan of many sports, I’ve come to grasp the concept of letting things—as in player/team performance, attitude, instinct—run their course, so to say. I have vehemently vowed to never become that guy on the radio or poster on a forum that is so reactive to each game that his opinion changes about a player or team on a daily basis. I really detest those kind of reactionary “fans”, they could get punched by Ron Artest and [...]

Nuggets 1 Lakers 1.
I’m a happy camper folks.
Head on over to this link and behold Chauncey’s naughtiness.
Then follow the directions for optimal naughtiness.

If Richard Hamilton is traded, I will understand the reasoning. With the good days of contending all but over, the direction of the team I would hope would be headed towards youth and freeing/avoiding hefty contracts. In three, four, even five years from now when Detroit could be back in the upper echelon of the East, Hamilton will not be around anyway. Cut your losses now—full blown rebuilding mode here we come.
Though maybe Joe D has some Danny Ainge magic up his sleeve and can make something drastic happen without parting ways with Rip. I’d be on board with that. After [...]

Been a busy couple of days for me. Spent much of Tuesday in Ann Arbor meeting fellow transfer students, wandering around campus, and enduring monster headaches because of the foreign language UofM makes you learn to be able to sign up for classes.  It’s a cross between American, African, and error. It was minimally funny until the moment I corrected my assigned academic advisor, telling her the course number I needed to input was indeed five digits, not three.  At least her strong (intentionally withheld) accent was reliable.
In my web travels as of the last few days…
Pistons bits-

 May 19th: Keith Langlois goes over possible NBA selections 1-15. Pistons might target Virginia Commonwealth’s Eric Maynor.  True [...]

I didn’t much care for Antonio McDyess in a Piston’s uni at first.  Admittedly I didn’t know much about the guy’s personality, all I knew was that he was a leaper and an All-Star caliber player before suffering a terrible knee injury in 2001. I knew he was a shell of his former self.  I guess at first Dice was too boring for me.  But I was still young and still feeling my away around in terms of realizing what roles players could and could not fill. 
Five years now as a Piston, McDyess has been nothing but a classy guy bubbling with loyalty, sincerity, and accountability, and a fabulous [...]

All 3.8 ppg and 3.5 rebs of Tay in 4 games… in 32.12 minutes of action/gm mind you.
(in no sensible order, but it was fun to try at first)
1. Telemarketers
2.  Philosophy major
3.  Joe Cullen
4.  Travis Henry’s condoms
5.  The War Powers Resolution (1973)
6.  Nancy Pelosi
7.  My Alan Trammell bobblehead
8.  The NFL Network
9.  Rob Parker’s credibility
10. Murray’s band meeting roll call
11.  The 16th seed
12. Virtual bubble wrap
13. Ratko Varda
14. Detroit City Council/Kilpatrick’s regime/ Detroit Public Schools
15. Jason Grilli’s Brandon Lyon’s fastball
16. Brian Fellows
17. Person driving SUV with cell phone in ear
18.  Name-dropping Calvin Booth
19.  Horse flies
20.  Forgetting your putter at home, not realizing it until the 1st green, birdie [...]

I would hope that everybody agrees on the improvements made by Rodney Stuckey this past season. Not only is Stuckey a nice guy, he plays the game hard and with passion. He showed dependability and perseverance, battling the latter much of the season because of all the lineup uncertainties and the Iverson distractions. He even stated at the conclusion of the season that the season was a “waste of time.” Stuckey, dude, couldn’t agree with you more in terms of the team concept, but individually you made sufficient progress.
He has a long way to go to embody an elite NBA point guard though. Floor [...]

My mom used to be a pretty avid and aware Pistons fan, but life has gotten in the way for her in recent years. Even when she used to watch games, she was no fun to watch them with because she would always go in the other room if the game was close in the final few minutes. It was her unique way of dealing with the anxiety. I guess it was a much more civil tactic than the stuff I had to do to cope, like constantly tinkering with my hands or doofus-ly pacing.  I digress.
You could get away with saying she’s somewhat of a [...]