Battle of the undefeated

First place Pistons against those other guys.

Can't wait to put Shitcago back in their place.

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BUCKET OF SHIT AND A CHICAGO BULLS FAN?

THE BUCKET

Bucket.

Ha!

A rivalry renewed

Vinnie Goodwill revenge game.

If the season ended today, we'd have home court vs the Cavs.

And now you went and did it Mike. Should've been Chicago v Detroit. I'm superstitious like that.

Got my thundersticks ready.

Team is real. Gonna be a fun season.

Illy needs to move the ball around the horn quicker. If he holds it, it gives the defense time to catch up.

Seems like we've won almost every trip down the floor and we're up 4 or some shit like that. Not good, imo.

It is impressive.

I told you guys!

Wow!

Marcus looks a lil bit like GMoney out on the court.

Reggie growing up. Dre is awesome.

26 for Morris? Wow. Quiet 26, imo.

Quiet? He was the whole team in the 3rd.

Quiet? He was the whole team in the 3rd.


I completely unashamedly admit that a buddy stopped by for the 3rd. I know y'all won't believe, but that's ok.

Morris reminds me of Sheed, offensively.

I completely unashamedly admit that a buddy stopped by for the 3rd. I know y'all won't believe, but that's ok.


And he doesn't speak English so we be not watching the game.

3-0 fellas.

Sheed had that never bring the ball low, turn around fade-away. Morris takes really contested jumpers and sometimes fades. So far anyway.

Can't wait until Tuesday, guys.

82-0

Morris reminds me of Sheed, offensively.

Detroit Sheed more than Portland Sheed

Finally watched 3rd. Morris got to 10pts on the game with under 8mins left in the 3rd. He had a decent game, really good game scoring 26pts. I still say it was a quiet 26. I guess I mean it wasn't like he was making everything he threw up there. But I concede without him in the 3rd, we'd prolly have been toast. I like scoring coming from the 3.


We got to get our overall scoring up though, don't we? Our PF/PA is a +7, but averaging under 100 a game isn't good, iirc. I know its early and I think SVG is talking about low percentage shooting, iirc. So I'm sure it will average out and we'll improve.


I really like Stanley Johnson. He's is one strong hombre. I think he's going to be getting some serious minutes this year.


Jury is still out on Illy for me. Reggie is playing really good. KCP's defense has been really good.


But Morris prolly is the biggest surprise this early in the season. Great trade. Wasn't that a salary dump trade? Didn't we take on some other contracts to get him for a 2nd?

Morris reminds me of Sheed, offensively.



He definitely has that fadeaway.

Yeah, Morris trade was Phoenix dumping salary to chase after Aldrige.

Trade terms (http://www.prosportstransactions.com/basketball/Search/SearchResults.php?Player=Marcus+Morris&Team=&BeginDate=&EndDate=&PlayerMovementChkBx=yes&Submit=Search)
Suns
• 2020 second round pick
Pistons
• Marcus Morris
• Reggie Bullock
• Danny Granger

Offense and Defense ratings so far according to Basketball-Reference (http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DET/2016.html)
PTS/G: 98.7 (21st of 30)
Opp PTS/G: 91.7 (4th of 30)
SRS: 14.64 (5th of 30)
Pace: 94.3 (28th of 30)
Off Rtg: 101.1 (19th of 30)
Def Rtg: 93.9 (5th of 30)

SRS? WTF is that? Will go look it up at some point.

Got it!


SRS Steals Resulting from Shit play by the other team.

Watched NBATV Gametime? And it seems like it was nothing but problems for the Pistons. I mean, where is Brandon Jennings going to get minutes when he comes back?


Steve Smith and little dude Fratello? said it a couple times, iirc. Not that we are playing really good, its that problem and AND Dre now has to show that he is the man in Detroit. Can he do that? Whatevs u bunch of fuckheads. We're 3-0.


TBH I brought up BJ too earlier. That was some fun shit last year when after releasing/stretching ??? we went on the run. Played great. Maybe even played above our talent level for a while there. And then BJ got hurt and ...


But now we aren't even playing all that great and we're 3-0. This seems different. We are playing within ourselves and still toughing out some wins. Still early but feels like we got sumpin going on . Get that contract off our books. See what happens with BJ. Still some flexibility going forward.

Yeah, Morris trade was Phoenix dumping salary to chase after Aldrige.

Trade terms (http://www.prosportstransactions.com/basketball/Search/SearchResults.php?Player=Marcus+Morris&Team=&BeginDate=&EndDate=&PlayerMovementChkBx=yes&Submit=Search)
Suns
• 2020 second round pick
Pistons
• Marcus Morris
• Reggie Bullock
• Danny Granger

Offense and Defense ratings so far according to Basketball-Reference (http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DET/2016.html)
PTS/G: 98.7 (21st of 30)
Opp PTS/G: 91.7 (4th of 30)
SRS: 14.64 (5th of 30)
Pace: 94.3 (28th of 30)
Off Rtg: 101.1 (19th of 30)
Def Rtg: 93.9 (5th of 30)



And thanks for the info and link, btw.

We need a backup PG. Blake is an abomination defensively and not good enough offensively to justify it. BJ isn't much (any?) better defensively but certainly is offensively.

Dimwittie? Maybe?

SRS...I goog'd it. Simple Random Sampling. Whatever the fuck that means..

Basketball Reference has a glossary of the various stats they keep.

SRS = Simple Rating System; a rating that takes into account average point differential and strength of schedule. The rating is denominated in points above/below average, where zero is average. My colleague Doug Drinen of Pro-Football-Reference.com has written a great explanation of this method.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/about/glossary.html#srs

Ooh, your "colleague".

Fancy!

Gla only has rivals.

Pacers 0-3

Can't wait to demolish them.

Dimwittie? Maybe?

He's too busy posting stupid shit on twitter.

He's too busy posting stupid shit on twitter.

Not that there's anything wrong with that

He appears to be done for his career in Detroit.

TTT

We need a backup PG. Blake is an abomination defensively and not good enough offensively to justify it. BJ isn't much (any?) better defensively but certainly is offensively.
This. i can only hope he's still playing himself into shape but he looks terrible.

Get your shit together Reggie!

rodney stuckey had the palace quiet. his most exciting play was a flagrant foul. had michiganders changing the channel. everyone left the palace pissed or depressed. it's like he still plays for Detroit.

Drummond is a fucking monster.

Not a great game. Still some good signs. Can't win them all, but a lil disappointing.


There was that stretch where Pacers were on their run and SVG didn't put starters back in. Kept digging bigger and bigger hole.


Oh well.

TTT GameDay!

A rivalry is currently being renewed.

Rose is the best player on our team.

In the words of Glan, this is starting to feel lossy

KCP has some awful misses

The worst thing about that shot was that he had McDermott on him and went away from the basket instead of toward it.

Is Hinrich's mom still ridiculously hot?

Don't look now!

Is Hinrich's mom still ridiculously hot?

How could she not be?

Fun game with scrubs

https://twitter.com/vgoodwill/status/678047193647878144

Snell? FUCKING SNELL?!?!?!?!?!11

First team to miss in OT loses.

Get a damn rebound!

Lol, this fucking game.

Wow

Numbers are deceptive, but Ersan been garbage

Great game for SJ

4 OTs, please, because why the fuck not?

^ will gladly take a win in the 3rd one, though

Fuck a TEARrick Rose

Detroit basketball, bitches.

Was never worried.

That was a total mess, but awesome.

Man, if Stanley and KCP actually pan out, man.

Reggie and Dre are looking like legit stars.

Morris is a chucker, but a good value on that contract.

I wish Meeks was better than he is, and Jennings could be interesting.

If we could get another really good big, we might make some noise until facing Bron Bron.

I know I'm being a prisoner of the moment, but it's been a relatively long time since this team was legitimately promising.

I really like this team. We're going to regret the 3-4 games we've already gifted away this year on last second BS. Good to see them stick one tonight.

I wonder if we have the record for points scored in a 4th OT.

I really like this team. We're going to regret the 3-4 games we've already gifted away this year on last second BS. Good to see them stick one tonight.

Yeah, I'm getting hype. now we gotta wait til Tuesday.

http://www.blogabull.com/2015/12/20/10629830/jimmy-butler-calls-out-fred-hoibergs-coaching-style-after-loss-to

Bulls falling apart.