RR c’mon. No one under the age of 14 should be able to post, this is absurd.

“I have more faith in Jay Triano than I have in Lawrence Frank, or Scott Skiles, or Larry Brown or Mike D’Antoni or Jim O’Brien, or Erik Spolstra, or Vinny Del Negro, in that Jay will be able to turn his team in to playoff force before anyone of these coaches do with their current teams.”

Prime candidate for FLUX’s collection of quotes for the end of the season.

Your boy Triano is going to have to do some serious work to even sniff the jockstrap of Larry Brown, Lil Frank and Scott Skiles. Those 3 take crap from no one, while your boy is too busy yelling at the refs and tossing clipboards.

No, forget it. This quote just made it to the top of the list. So in other words: all those team will be worse then the Raps. Got it.

NBA GMs boasted riches in Europe a few years ago and, coupled with recent success by European based teams (both national and local), it raised the level of expectations. Unlike your comparison of American based talent, which is a pool of 1000s, the *perception* is that the Europeans coming over are the creme of the crop, names that are at the top of their national teams.

Disagree: I think the instance is more general and refers to how talent as it is perceived, and how it finally translates into solid players/stars or not; the geographical/cultural variable has a little role in this process, and it simply catches the eye because of its cultural aspects and differences. Anyone could name a long list of American talented young players that did not turn into good NBA players, and viceversa. And of course, a list of Euro players that are doing/did great in the NBA (Gasol, Kukoc, Parker, Garba, Hedo, a few Argentinians formed in EU, etc.). IMO, it has more to do with a USA-centric perception (prejudice?) than with anything else. Such a point of view probably had more sense 15 years ago than it has today.

I agree that the Raps are better off without Delfino right now though.

As I said above, if you factor in his style of play with his stats, it produces a type/style of player that needs to breed patience. As good as his stats were, they regressed on a Pistons team that, well, sucked, compared to years past.

I never said anything bad about the trade. Colangelo needed to use a commodity to round out the roster and he did. The only risk he took was cashing in on future potential for disappearing cap room next season, which I personally have zero issue with.

I’ll stand by my words. I watched most of the Pistons games last year and he jumps way too early. This gives him some nice blocks, but as the opposing guys learn, so does he. If he digs hard and offsets by being a beast in the offensive paint, then great. I actually think he will.

Does it really matter, though? Outside of guys taking games off due to injury, Amir won’t be a rotation player for more than 11-12min max.

He had a year last year that showed backward progress. Be great to see him turn it around.

it’s a good trade, coz, they finally got delfino out of the plans (he wants too much than what he deserves, and most likely would hinder the development of our prized rookie demar derozan), roko (became the odd man out after a poor showing from the team and the acquisitions of jaret jack and marco bellineli). amir johnson was a decent player last year for the pistons, a more defensive forward currently in the mold of stromile swift or tyrus thomas. an upgrade to pops (no disrespect). we now have a much deeper core (please get rid of banks and POB).

i think jose will score more and hopefully, he would be available for almost the whole season. most of the pressure from the ballhandling he had last season would be relieved by hedo. hedo can be our scottie pippen/lamar odom point guard, and jose can be our bj armstrong or derek fisher (without the defense) type of point guard, who does not carry the ball most of the time but could be deadly at the 3 point lane.

we are in a much better position compared to last year. JO’s acquisition was way overrated, as he was considered the missing piece, without checking the whole depth of the roster, which only added guys like hassan adams, roko, will solomon, nate jawaii. tj was undervalued and his disappearance hurt the team. good job, Brian Colangelo. i hope you give some tips to Jays’ GM JP ricchardi on how to run a team, in a league where Big American teams dominate.

But then again, FAQ isn’t much of a fan. And the knock on the city was classless.

They actually look alright to me. Keep in mind he started a bunch of games for Detroit at the beginning of last year, so his defensive numbers were against much better players than Pops’ (predominantly) garbage time numbers.

Moreover, his rebound and block rates are quite acceptable, and he is the only Piston who is makes the top-five-man-unit nine out of the top ten permutations.

Defensively, his team is usually better when he is on the floor. This bodes well for the Raps, who got this guy essentially for free.

Roko, although talented, simply wasn’t going to get any burn here as a third string point. Moreover, the trade sheds his contract in the all-important 2010 year in exchange for two dudes who aren’t guaranteed past this season.

All-in-all, I think it’s a low risk high reward move, which is as good as you can ask for — particularly when nobody expected a move at all.

SOMETIMES, a team has instant chemistry and click and even go beyond what they were designed to do. Conversely, sometimes a team can crash and burn.
What makes life exciting is there’s no way you can positively know either way what’s going to happen until it actually does!

Have you considered that maybe YOUR team experiences always lead to chemistry issues given your negative approach towards things? If you considered these boards a ‘team’, the rest of the team would call you the chemistry disrupter!