http://www.freep.com/article/20090217/S ... e+MichiganThe Pistons president sat down with Keith Langlois, the Pistons in-house writer, last week. And in the long Q-and-A, one thing stood out to me. Dumars pretty much said what has become obvious – this season has, at least to a degree, been sacrificed for the future. His quote, which comes in the context of talking about making significant changes: “If that means we have to go through some struggles this year, as we have, then, OK, I’m willing to do that. I’m willing to go through these struggles to get to where we need to get.
I don’t like it. It’s gut-wrenching. We haven’t lost here. The first time in eight or nine years we’re losing games that we ordinarily have not lost. That’s tough for all of us to swallow. It’s especially hard for me to swallow. It’s hard to wake up and face losing to teams that you just haven’t lost to and all of a sudden you wake up and it’s another L. I don’t want anybody to get it wrong, that we’re OK with losing, because we’re not. It’s harder than hell to sit here and lose. But it would be even harder to lose if we waited and waited and waited and there was no prospect to get better.
That means that unless something truly spectacular lands on Dumars' lap this week, you can bet he'll hang onto this roster, knowing how valuable his upcoming salary cap relief will be.And that means ... probably not much good news for the rest of this season. Unless you think putting Antonio McDyess back into the starting line-up is the magic elixir. Raise of hands?
