Hoping for the best and expecting the worst, you guys.

Stickied.

Kyle Singler will represent the Pistons at the lottery, to be conducted at Disney/ABC Times Square Studios in New York.

Should've sent Gilbert's kid. Idiots.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140519/SPORTS03/305190150/detroit-pistons-nba-draft-lottery


■ No. 1 pick: 2.80%

■ No. 2 pick: 3.26%

■ No. 3 pick: 3.88%

■ Nos. 4-7 picks: 0%

■ No. 8 pick: 72.47%

■ No. 9 pick: 16.78%*

■ No. 10 pick: 0.80%*

■ No. 11 pick: 0.01%*

■ Nos. 12-14 picks: 0%

What time does it start?

What time does it start?

8 ET

Thanks bro. Good looking out.

Really excited for the number 3 pick yg.

We need #1. It'd really help the people of Detroit.

We've been through so much, you guys.

■ No. 11 pick: 0.01%*

Don't know if I'd laugh or cry.

8 ET
What the fuck breau?

GO BUCKS!

OUCH

Fucking ESPN's chart was all wrong.

Wait, what's going on? Why is Moss so pissed?

#9???

Wait, what's going on? Why is Moss so pissed?
ESPN's chart was all screwed up. We out.

ESPN's chart was all screwed up. We out.

HATE ESPN.

FUCKING CLEVELAND AGAIN?!?!?!

Can I get those 10 minutes back?

Hope Cleveland drafts that Croatian fuck.

So hurt, you guys.

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/5-20-2014/EKTuGf.gif


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0

Can you imagine just being a total disaster and we don't even have a draft pick. Fuck Joe Dumars. The only time a GM has ate himself out of a job.

:langlois:

http://www.nba.com/pistons/features/pistons-lose-their-pick-cavs-jump-no-1-again

this is the worst case scenario obviously. I was for some reason optimistic that we could sneak into the top 3 and even steal the #1. but of course the odds wouldn't allow that, would they? no- instead they let a team with an even WORSE chance at the #1, Cleveland, win the #1 again. 3rd time in 4 years. I'm not into conspiracy theories but......

anyway even if we only ended up with #8, I'd feel pretty good. there are some awesome players in this class and even at #8 we could land a guy who could really push our franchise forward. hell even stauskus is IMO a guy who could be agreat pickup especially as we build around Drummond.

getting the #1 would have changed the fortune of this franchise for the next 10 year +. instead we of course struck out and end up with NOTHING.

I'm generally an optimistic person but this was our chance. now with the way this team is constructed, we will be doomed to mediocrity until we are consistently terrible enough to get top level talent. hate to say that but it's true. we can add a nice FA and hope to make a good trade. but the reality is in today's nba you need an elite superstar and generally that player needs to be a wing. so even if Drummond becomes shaq, we need an elite SF or SG and we can't acquire one if we're drafting in the teens or early 20s every year.

I fully expect us to make the playoffs and maybe even make a nice FA signing that will help us make some noise. some internal growth by our current players would help a ton. but without an elite perimeter player- like an Andrew wiggins type talent!- then we'll only ever be good enough to make the playoffs and lose in round 2. if we're lucky.

get ready for 10 years of mediocrity since we have too much talent to strip the team down and get a top lotto pick but we don't have enough talent to truly compete. this was as sad a day in recent pistons history, given how the franchise went from the possibility to elevating to an eventual top tier team, to now being doomed to mediocrity.

Should have never flirted with Isiah.

#HumanTikiDoll

I'm not salty about this because the Pistons were going to suck no matter who they picked and they were going to lose a pick no matter what in the next draft.

Get ready for the fire sale.

I'm trying to think positively -- perhaps the Cavs can screw up #1 two years in a row.

I'm not salty about this because the Pistons were going to suck no matter who they picked and they were going to lose a pick no matter what in the next draft.

Get ready for the fire sale.

Same. Would rather lose this than lose number 1 next year. ha!

LLTP: No lottery pick = more cap room!

http://www.nba.com/pistons/chatmailbox/pistons-mailbag-may-21-2014

See, there's always a silver lining with Keith!

I seriously have no fuckin clue why this team is so bad. Thought Dre, Monroe, Jennings, Smiff would get us in the playoffs.


Good luck, Stan!

I'm not salty about this because the Pistons were going to suck no matter who they picked and they were going to lose a pick no matter what in the next draft.

Get ready for the fire sale.

well IMO that logic doesn't make sense because this year's draft looks MUCH better than next year's prospects. plus, I feel pretty confident that with van gundy at the helm, we'll improve enogh to make the playoffs next year. so we'll be good enough to make the playoffs and therefore not bad enough to blow up the team or get a good draft pick. that is why I say that we're likely to be stuck in mediocrity for a LONG time.

I doubt it'll be as bad as the 2013 draft... that one has been full of Kids who Can't Play.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140523/SPORTS03/305230084/detroit-pistons-nba-draft

Dan Feldman writes for the Detroit Pistons blog PistonPowered. His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Detroit Free Press nor its writers.

best part

best part
Disagree:


"But the chickens came home to roost this week, and they could be clucking for years to come."

I bet $12 million bucks buys the #8 pick.

THIS THURSDAY

WISH :we: HAD A PICK

WISH :we: HAD A PICK

WE DO

#38!!!!

At 38 we all rotate.

WE DO

#38!!!!

:kennythejet:

Hope we do something. Going to be tough having to wait until 38.

my sources are telling me it's unlikely that wiggins slips all the way to #38; I tried to cause his stock to slip by starting a rumour that he's a Neo Nazi Satan worshipper but it appears that hasn't worked and he will NOT be available at #38. *sigh*

Guys, I don't think I'm going to watch the draft this year. Total fair weather fan right here :(

Wait the draft has already been on for an hour?

This sucks. Fuck the Cavs.

Where's WINDHORST?

Of all the players to look up to he chose Wally Szczerbiak.

McDermott going to the Bulls.

Don't think I can watch much more of this.

Ok, that is awesome.

CHOKElahoma City on the clock.

Maybe the MICHIGAN MAN can teach DurCAN'T how to win.

GUYS THE ONLY PICK THAT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT ON THE LEAGUE IS #38

I bet* we go with GRIII.

*Kidding. I'm not Michael Jordan.

Whoever we pick will play along Drummond and KingJames

Is Ennis The Menace still around

Whoever we pick will play along Drummond, Carmelo and KingJames

Clemson has a basketball program?

Is Ennis The Menace still around

Guess not. Suns.

Wow the 76ers just picked up piles of garbage today

CLE will somehow end up drafting a prime Hakeem Olajuwon with this pick.

Loved the old nba draft coverage on TNT. ESPN just has clowns.

CLE will somehow end up drafting a prime Hakeem Olajuwon with this pick.

And he'll bust.

I've gotta take a shit, Mike. Let me know if I miss anything.

You are not missing anything. Just fake Knicks hype.

damn the knicks for taking cleanthony early. totally wanted that kid. I would actually take G-rob. developing shooter and great athlete. he'll be a much better pro on the right team.

still dreaming that we can trade for stauskas somehow but I guess that ship has sailed. that kid is awesome and would fit in so well in Detroit.

You are not missing anything. Just fake Knicks hype.

Is there any other kind of Knicks hype?

Thinking G-Rob.

But it'll probably be some guy from Kazakhstan or something.

what happened to all the supposed trades tonight? no big deals and only a couple of trades involving picks. I'm hoping more are announced soon...

what happened to all the supposed trades tonight? no big deals and only a couple of trades involving picks. I'm hoping more are announced soon...

Yeah, this draft has been very uninteresting.

we're up! on the clock. who will it be? I think g-rob can help and develop even more. other good players left though.

Simmons loves the pick, you guys. WE WIN.

WHO THE FUCK IS SPENDER DINWIDDIE

nice pick!!! Dinwiddie is a player but just needs to be healthy!!

YEAH LETS DRAFT SOMEONE WITH A TORN ACL. PEYTON SIVA WOULD DESTROY HIM

1st round talent? BUT IS THAT TOP 8 TALENT???

If you're first rd talent then you get picked in the first round. He's second round talent.

if he hadn't been injured you would've asked that question 20 picks ago. he's a player.

plus, did you see his moustache? that alone tells me this kid is a baller.

If you're first rd talent then you get picked in the first round. He's second round talent.

not in a really deep draft and when you're injured. happens all the time- if someone else is healthy and is a comparable talent, they'll take the healthy guy obviously. if he wasn't injured, he goes in the first for sure.

The Wolves just need to be kicked out of the fucking league. It doesn't matter what they do.

I would've taken g-rob. but this makes sense too.

It doesn't matter. He will probably never play but he will be featured in "State of the Pistons"

Oh look, the Wolves are up again.

WHERE THE FUCK IS WINDHORST?!?!?

It doesn't matter. He will probably never play but he will be featured in "State of the Pistons"

Win

Bill Simmons: "I like that guy, he's a warrior."

Actually, it was the SIXERS who drafted him. Idiot.

Let's Not Go See "Let's Be Cops." Ha!

If you're first rd talent then you get picked in the first round. He's second round talent.
Yup.

What a boring draft.

Watch Cory Jefferson go on to become like a 15x All Star.

These pricks who think they're being funny by saying "Marcus Smart" in a Boston accent can go to Hell.

"This is a great pick for the Pistons. Dinwiddie would've been a first-round pick if he hadn't blown out his ACL. He's a big guard who can play both the 1 and the 2. He's not a great athlete, but he's very crafty and has a high basketball IQ. The Pistons could use a player like this in their backcourt. He's the anti-Brandon Jennings."

the 'anti-Brandon jennings'? already love this kid.

If you're first rd talent then you get picked in the first round. He's second round talent.

kind of a ridiculous statement considering the list of allstars and undervalued players who have slid into the 2nd round. is this another one of them? I'm not saying that but just pointing out how silly your statement is. there are plenty of examples which would prove your statement wrong.

I get what you're saying but you can't use exceptions to prove rules. MM's point is pretty incontrovertible....if he were a first round talent by very definition he would have been taken in the first round.

it's not a rule. if it were a rule, every single guy with 1st round talent would be taken in the first round. not to mention, every guy taken in the 1st round would actually be a 1st round talent! would you agree lots of guys taken in the 1st round eventually prove to have been huge mistakes in evaluation? of course they were.

and I was not trying to prove a rule I was simply pointing out that there are exceptions to that statement....and that Dinwiddie is clearly one of them. every source I've heard and read have said he's a 1st round talent who went in round 2 because of his injury and the depth of this draft. to say otherwise is to ignore the reality of his situation. will he end up being a good player? time will tell. but all evaluations at this point are that he is a 1st round talent. I've seen some sources even suggest he was a fringe lottery player.

I get what you're saying but you can't use exceptions to prove rules. MM's point is pretty incontrovertible....if he were a first round talent by very definition he would have been taken in the first round.

no. by every definition if he were a 1st round draft pick, he would've been taken in the 1st round. you can disagree if you like, but saying he is a 1st round talent does not mean that he would have necessarily been taken in the 1st round. that's not necessarily the case.

Guys with top-top talent get taken in the first regardless of the black marks, be them injuries, character questions, etc. He didn't have the talent for that injury to be ignored. This isn't that complicated.

That's not to say that he can't play like a first-rounder but as is, he did not have first round talent, he had second round talent.

Would Dinwiddie have cracked the 1st round last year, just with his sophmore season?

I'm looking forward to Blaha saying Spencer Dinwiddie's name.

Guys with top-top talent get taken in the first regardless of the black marks, be them injuries, character questions, etc. He didn't have the talent for that injury to be ignored. This isn't that complicated.

That's not to say that he can't play like a first-rounder but as is, he did not have first round talent, he had second round talent.


you're right. he did not have TOP talent but he does have first round talent.