Ratliff To Mo-Town

AgEnT50 · Post #1 » by **AgEnT50** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:45 am

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... 004/SPORTS

Oh boy....day by day it gets worse for us

Cigamodnalro · Post #2 » by **Cigamodnalro** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:48 am

Solid, solid player if he's healthy. Or at least he used to be.

MagicFan4Lyfe · Post #3 » by **MagicFan4Lyfe** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:48 am

Otis is working on his creative financing. Be patient Magic fans.

magicfan4life05 · Post #4 » by **magicfan4life05** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:56 am

u gotta be kidding me i thought they wre getting dale davis? btw i almost read this as "otown" so i got happy then

knappy · Post #5 » by **knappy** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:58 am

with Detroit picking up Ratliff and Boston getting PJ Brown and Cassell - they were the only remaining top tier teams that hadn't made a move to improve - now that they have made a move - every top tier team has made a move to get better, except .....

Otis - I like my team. Of all those teams who would have had one of the easiest chances to make an improvement? A team with $14m in expiring contracts.

We are just one step below ... Dwight is awesome, but we are going to have a lot of trouble competing with the top tier without a real PF - they will out rebound us and over power us - not Dwight, but we only have one of him.

mattyBoi · Post #6 » by **mattyBoi** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:10 am

So Boston gets Cassel and PJ

Detroit gets Ratliff and Dale Davis

Dallas gets Magloire

And we sit around and do nothing when we are the team that needs a big the most.

Ratliff and Davis are just two extra guys to defend and irratate Dwight.

This is getting worse and worse.

AgEnT50 · Post #7 » by **AgEnT50** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:16 am

GortatExpress wrote:Otis is working on his creative financing. Be patient Magic fans.

theTHIEF · Post #8 » by **theTHIEF** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:23 am

man, It would be excellent if the Magic could pickup one of these guys getting dropped...an extra capable body would be real nice here...someone needs to get Denton to ask Otis if he's going to or is looking to or even considering it...

Post #9 » by **Bensational** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:43 am

someone needs to ask SVG if he'll play another big body if we add one.

that's not an attack on SVG, but he seems very selective with his lineups.

Chris Anderson's still out there, and he can get us some rebounds at least. is Danny Fortson still a FA??? as much as Otis doesn't like a 'quick fix', the fact that something needs 'fixing', implies that something needs to be done.

theTHIEF · Post #10 » by **theTHIEF** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:43 am

Anderson would be a major upgrade...but NO will get him...

Shishnizzle · Post #11 » by **Shishnizzle** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:46 am

Boston got better with Cassell, and Brown even though when they are up agianst our first team they will still have to play small to match up because none of thier second tier bigs can guard Lewis.
I don't see how this signing of Ratliff helps Detroit agianst us because they all ready have the bigs to match us, and they don't have the minutes to give all of them. Like I said they were all ready stacked agianst us in that category. It does help them by keeping him from signing with us and in that case Brown as well. Let's face it, other than a blockbuster for us we were not contending for a championship this year any way. We are a long shot even if we picked up a good player. We are too young and in expeirienced right now ,and I have watched enough of this league to know that is just the kind of respect we would get from the league and the officials. It's not our time yet. We are a couple years away from contending.

richboy · Post #12 » by **richboy** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:37 am

There no such thing as being too young. You can contend at any age if you have the talent. This team doesn't have the talent. The only young player I think your referring is Dwight. The rest of this roster is not all that young.

Post #13 » by **SD2042** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:40 am

Ratliff when healthy can help the Pistons out very well on the defensive end with his rebounding and shot blocking. With his history of consistant injuries. I'm not as confident to say he will be the effective answer for the Pistons down in the post due to his injuries keeping him off the floor. I could be wrong, but it's just my opinion.

Post #14 » by **damo[23]** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:38 am

Yeah cos I am sure Brown would have chosen us over Boston.

Liqourish · Post #15 » by **Liqourish** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:18 pm

Detroit signed Ratliff instead of Dale Davis. DD is still availble to the first team that asks him.

Ratliff will be the 5th big in the Pistons rotation (when used) and basically used as insurance in the playoffs at a cheap price. One of Dixon/Herrmann will become inactive when Ratliff is used.

C. Billups/R. Stuckey/L. Hunter*
R. Hamilton/A. Afflalo/J. Dixon
T. Prince/J. Hayes/W. Herrmann
A. McDyess/J. Maxiell/A. Johnson
R. Wallace/T. Ratliff*/C. Samb**

* Inactive at the moment
** NBDL

cedric76 · Post #16 » by **cedric76** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:29 pm

team like detroit+boston+SA wil always haev the edge over us signing thoses VET

don't blame otis

magictreat · Post #17 » by **magictreat** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:08 pm

Is getting to the point, in which for somebody here, to defend Otis, that person have to be blind or a moron, lmao!!!

Magicalltheway · Post #18 » by **Magicalltheway** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:01 pm

question, are these players being signed for only remainder of the season or mulit year deals.

theTHIEF · Post #19 » by **theTHIEF** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:05 pm

most likely all of them are signing for the remainder at the vets min...

cedric76 · Post #20 » by **cedric76** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:20 pm

magictreat wrote:Is getting to the point, in which for somebody here, to defend Otis, that person have to be blind or a moron, lmao!!!

lol

don't u like the team he built?

think as manager,running a business ,and u'll see how well he does.

stop thinking as a fan who doesn't care how much is our payroll