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Pistons in play in game?????

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Who wants Pistons in top ten????

Weaver and Casey
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24%
Weaver, not Casey
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Casey, not Weaver
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Neither Weaver or Casey
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32%
 
Total votes: 25

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Post#1 » by ByeByeDre » Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:46 am

Very simple - who wants the Pistons to be in the playoff play in game this year?

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Post#2 » by Pharaoh » Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:48 am

Absolutely not!

Rather get a top 5 pick in 2021!

It's nice to "compete" but being in the treadmill sucked for a decade!

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Post#3 » by The Moose » Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:58 am

I voted Casey, not Weaver.

I have no idea what Weaver actually wants, but Casey is the coach and coaches coach to win
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Post#4 » by ByeByeDre » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:09 am

Yeah my question is very simple - the people who are spinning it into what they personally want are morons.
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Post#5 » by ElectricMayhem » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:40 am

ByeByeDre wrote:the people who are spinning it into what they personally want are morons.


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Post#6 » by Pharaoh » Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:33 am

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ByeByeDre wrote:the people who are spinning it into what they personally want are morons.


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Post#7 » by MotownMadness » Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:28 pm

I dont know what any of them really want seeing as nothing they do really hints towards one direction or another.

I think that Blake Griffin contract is really our saving grace to protect them from being able to splurge to a treadmill but making us suck instead hopefully getting a young franchise guy.
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Post#8 » by Snakebites » Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:33 pm

Casey wants top 10. He wants to win as many games as possible. He’s...not great at it. He is only as concerned with playing or developing guys as he’s forced to be.

Weaver is harder to read. Best I can guess is that he wants it both ways- develop youth while also winning games. Trouble is, you need better talent than we have to win games, and far better talent to win games WHILE developing guys. It’s the only way I can rationalize going all in on the draft while also investing long term in vets and using all our cap space, even going so far as to acquire guys to stretch.

It’s not impossible to have that model, the Heat won games and even reached the finals while developing guys like Herro and Nunn along with relative newcomers like Robinson, but that example proves my point- you need vastly more talent than we’ve got to make that sort of setup work.

He appears to believe action is always superior to inaction. Which has merit when you’re at the bottom, but so far the moves themselves aren’t working out apart from Grant.

TLDR: I put that both want winning, but it’s tricky.
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Post#9 » by DetroitDon15 » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:02 pm

I have no interest in making the playoffs. I want to hold off as long as possible from seeing the pain of the Wood trade. We paid Plumlee 5 mill less and sent Wood plus a first rounder in a sign and trade. Completely unforgivable move.
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Post#10 » by mrroboto4889 » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:05 pm

Coach wants to win, GM does not. I think this goes for every tanking team. It doesnt benefit Casey to lose games. That leads to him not being around when we have a locker room of lottery picks.
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Post#11 » by Sort » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:12 pm

Casey clearly wants to win - clinging to vets playing poor ball instead of dolling out more PT to younger players says it all. I don't believe the "retooling" PR crap. Weaver wants to lose to get that high pick, but he's not going to come out and say that. Truth though will come out. Will Casey be on the hot seat? Just conjecture though.
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Post#12 » by ByeByeDre » Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:27 pm

Snakebites wrote:Casey wants top 10. He wants to win as many games as possible. He’s...not great at it. He is only as concerned with playing or developing guys as he’s forced to be.

Weaver is harder to read. Best I can guess is that he wants it both ways- develop youth while also winning games. Trouble is, you need better talent than we have to win games, and far better talent to win games WHILE developing guys. It’s the only way I can rationalize going all in on the draft while also investing long term in vets and using all our cap space, even going so far as to acquire guys to stretch.

It’s not impossible to have that model, the Heat won games and even reached the finals while developing guys like Herro and Nunn along with relative newcomers like Robinson, but that example proves my point- you need vastly more talent than we’ve got to make that sort of setup work.

He appears to believe action is always superior to inaction. Which has merit when you’re at the bottom, but so far the moves themselves aren’t working out apart from Grant.

TLDR: I put that both want winning, but it’s tricky.


Good read. I put that both are going for it as well. To me, it’s pretty obvious that Weaver wants to win. Simply follow the money. We’ve gone from having $35 million in cap space to having two stretched players and $106 million committed FOR NEXT SEASON! Not to mention what has happened to any and all picks. No rebuilding team in their right mind would operate this way. Move after move screams retooling, the good ones as well as the bad ones.

Now, one nice thing for Weaver’s career path is that he has outs, and others to blame. It will be easy for him to pivot after eventually firing Casey. It will be easy for him to pivot after next season, when a lot of the $106 million comes off the books. Heck, in three years too, when Grant and Plum expire. Many chances to change the narrative, and keep his reign alive.......
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Post#13 » by Manocad » Fri Jan 22, 2021 2:28 am

ByeByeDre wrote:Yeah my question is very simple - the people who are spinning it into what they personally want are morons.

And people who claim to know what Weaver and Casey want are smart
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Post#14 » by Pharaoh » Fri Jan 22, 2021 2:55 am

Do you really hate our GM that much?
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Snakebites wrote:Casey wants top 10. He wants to win as many games as possible. He’s...not great at it. He is only as concerned with playing or developing guys as he’s forced to be.

Weaver is harder to read. Best I can guess is that he wants it both ways- develop youth while also winning games. Trouble is, you need better talent than we have to win games, and far better talent to win games WHILE developing guys. It’s the only way I can rationalize going all in on the draft while also investing long term in vets and using all our cap space, even going so far as to acquire guys to stretch.

It’s not impossible to have that model, the Heat won games and even reached the finals while developing guys like Herro and Nunn along with relative newcomers like Robinson, but that example proves my point- you need vastly more talent than we’ve got to make that sort of setup work.

He appears to believe action is always superior to inaction. Which has merit when you’re at the bottom, but so far the moves themselves aren’t working out apart from Grant.

TLDR: I put that both want winning, but it’s tricky.


Good read. I put that both are going for it as well. To me, it’s pretty obvious that Weaver wants to win. Simply follow the money. We’ve gone from having $35 million in cap space to having two stretched players and $106 million committed FOR NEXT SEASON! Not to mention what has happened to any and all picks. No rebuilding team in their right mind would operate this way. Move after move screams retooling, the good ones as well as the bad ones.

Now, one nice thing for Weaver’s career path is that he has outs, and others to blame. It will be easy for him to pivot after eventually firing Casey. It will be easy for him to pivot after next season, when a lot of the $106 million comes off the books. Heck, in three years too, when Grant and Plum expire. Many chances to change the narrative, and keep his reign alive.......


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Post#15 » by DetroitSho » Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:13 am

Pharaoh wrote:Do you really hate our GM that much?
ByeByeDre wrote:
Snakebites wrote:Casey wants top 10. He wants to win as many games as possible. He’s...not great at it. He is only as concerned with playing or developing guys as he’s forced to be.

Weaver is harder to read. Best I can guess is that he wants it both ways- develop youth while also winning games. Trouble is, you need better talent than we have to win games, and far better talent to win games WHILE developing guys. It’s the only way I can rationalize going all in on the draft while also investing long term in vets and using all our cap space, even going so far as to acquire guys to stretch.

It’s not impossible to have that model, the Heat won games and even reached the finals while developing guys like Herro and Nunn along with relative newcomers like Robinson, but that example proves my point- you need vastly more talent than we’ve got to make that sort of setup work.

He appears to believe action is always superior to inaction. Which has merit when you’re at the bottom, but so far the moves themselves aren’t working out apart from Grant.

TLDR: I put that both want winning, but it’s tricky.


Good read. I put that both are going for it as well. To me, it’s pretty obvious that Weaver wants to win. Simply follow the money. We’ve gone from having $35 million in cap space to having two stretched players and $106 million committed FOR NEXT SEASON! Not to mention what has happened to any and all picks. No rebuilding team in their right mind would operate this way. Move after move screams retooling, the good ones as well as the bad ones.

Now, one nice thing for Weaver’s career path is that he has outs, and others to blame. It will be easy for him to pivot after eventually firing Casey. It will be easy for him to pivot after next season, when a lot of the $106 million comes off the books. Heck, in three years too, when Grant and Plum expire. Many chances to change the narrative, and keep his reign alive.......


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I'm completely baffled at the amount of vitriol from certain people that has gone against Weaver in such a short period of time. At this point this can't JUST be about basketball.

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Post#16 » by ByeByeDre » Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:34 am

Manocad wrote:
ByeByeDre wrote:Yeah my question is very simple - the people who are spinning it into what they personally want are morons.

And people who claim to know what Weaver and Casey want are smart

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Post#17 » by Pharaoh » Fri Jan 22, 2021 6:28 am

Think it's more due to the fact Weaver didn't make the moves they would have made in his position tbh

He didn't make the moves I made but

So far so good
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Pharaoh wrote:Do you really hate our GM that much?
ByeByeDre wrote:
Good read. I put that both are going for it as well. To me, it’s pretty obvious that Weaver wants to win. Simply follow the money. We’ve gone from having $35 million in cap space to having two stretched players and $106 million committed FOR NEXT SEASON! Not to mention what has happened to any and all picks. No rebuilding team in their right mind would operate this way. Move after move screams retooling, the good ones as well as the bad ones.

Now, one nice thing for Weaver’s career path is that he has outs, and others to blame. It will be easy for him to pivot after eventually firing Casey. It will be easy for him to pivot after next season, when a lot of the $106 million comes off the books. Heck, in three years too, when Grant and Plum expire. Many chances to change the narrative, and keep his reign alive.......


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I'm completely baffled at the amount of vitriol from certain people that has gone against Weaver in such a short period of time. At this point this can't JUST be about basketball.

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