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I read that past night and was dying laughing. The guy even says we should trade him to a contender for draft picks lol. Dude didnt even have the courage to put his name on the blog.

MotownMadness wrote:I read that past night and was dying laughing. The guy even says we should trade him to a contender for draft picks lol. Dude didnt even have the courage to put his name on the blog.

Great idea to trade a budding superstar who's still only 20 years old on a rookie contract.

That article was laughable.

"Let's trade a 21 year old player that could be a franchise player in hopes that we can draft a 19 or 20 year old kid who can be a franchise player a few years down the road!"

Brilliant logic.

Who is this one-celled organism named Eric Thomas? The pistons are already rebuilding. Why would they trade away their good pieces? Such a thought demonstrates that this guy probably wouldn’t be able to put six equal pieces together to form a cube. The headline of the article certainly is grabbing but the idea of trading Drummond is asinine. It’s even more asinine to suggest trading Drummond to a contender, which most likely would be a team with low draft picks.

jdmcong wrote:http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/06/26/pistons-need-to-start-over-and-that-includes-possibly-trading-andre-drummond-blog/

Ok, i hope somebody is going to lose his job...........

Well, he's basing this on the same BS about Drummond leaving that regularly flies for an intelligent point around here. RFAs that a team wants to keep don't leave that team, since the CBA massively incentivizes staying with the team that drafted them. The list of guys that teams have really wanted and that have left after rookie deals begins and ends with Shaq, and he was the best or second best player in the game for a decade. Realistically, we have Drummond for 6-7 more years before we have to start worrying about him leaving (a la Love, DWill, D12, etc--who all threatened to leave when their first post-rookie deal was up). By that time, tons of stuff will have happened; even everything we do this offseason won't be directly relevant, since all the FAs will be done with contracts etc.

Of course every decision matters, but I really hate it when people cite the threat of Drummond leaving as a key reason for doing X or Y now.

HotelVitale wrote:Well, he's basing this on the same BS about Drummond leaving that regularly flies for an intelligent point around here. RFAs that a team wants to keep don't leave that team, since the CBA massively incentivizes staying with the team that drafted them. The list of guys that teams have really wanted and that have left after rookie deals begins and ends with Shaq, and he was the best or second best player in the game for a decade. Realistically, we have Drummond for 6-7 more years before we have to start worrying about him leaving (a la Love, DWill, D12, etc--who all threatened to leave when their first post-rookie deal was up). By that time, tons of stuff will have happened; even everything we do this offseason won't be directly relevant, since all the FAs will be done with contracts etc.

Of course every decision matters, but I really hate it when people cite the threat of Drummond leaving as a key reason for doing X or Y now.

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HotelVitale wrote:Well, he's basing this on the same BS about Drummond leaving that regularly flies for an intelligent point around here. RFAs that a team wants to keep don't leave that team, since the CBA massively incentivizes staying with the team that drafted them. The list of guys that teams have really wanted and that have left after rookie deals begins and ends with Shaq, and he was the best or second best player in the game for a decade. Realistically, we have Drummond for 6-7 more years before we have to start worrying about him leaving (a la Love, DWill, D12, etc--who all threatened to leave when their first post-rookie deal was up). By that time, tons of stuff will have happened; even everything we do this offseason won't be directly relevant, since all the FAs will be done with contracts etc.

Of course every decision matters, but I really hate it when people cite the threat of Drummond leaving as a key reason for doing X or Y now.

Quoted for the MF'ing TRUTH!

There is such thing as fair value for any player in a trade. Or more than fair value.

There is a chance that Drummond will choose to leave after 5 or 7 years.

Drummond will be a piston for the next 7 years. The only worthwhile trades involving him will never happen, so he's essentially untradeable and should not even be included in trade talks.