<sigh>

That makes how many guards on the roster?

6? 7?

bye bye Acker

They have effectively chosen Blalock over Acker it would appear, unless they send Blalock directly to the NBDL for the season and re-sign Acker for the parent club, I suppose that's still possible.

http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/blalocked_signed_060724.html


Pistons Sign Second Round Pick Will Blalock

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Detroit Pistons President of Basketball Operations Joe Dumars announced today that the club has signed second round pick Will Blalock to a multi-year contract. Per team policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.

“We are pleased to announce the signing of our second round pick Will Blalock,” said Dumars. “Will had a good showing at the Vegas summer league and we are excited about his potential and ability to give us depth at the point guard position.”

Blalock averaged 15.4 points and 6.1 assists (10th nationally in assists) in 30 games last season at Iowa State, earning Third Team All-Big 12 by the league’s coaches and The Associated Press. An early-entry candidate for the NBA Draft, Blalock scored 20 or more points nine times and recorded three games of double-figure assists.

The Boston, MA native started 82 of his 93 collegiate games, including every game as a sophomore and junior. Among Iowa State’s all-time leaders, Blalock finished his career ranked 22nd in scoring (1,078 points), sixth in assists (464) and tied for sixth in steals (177).

In five games for Detroit at the Toshiba Vegas Summer League last week, Blalock averaged 5.2 points, 1.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 21.8 minutes per game.

horray, our new Horace Jenkins got a 2year deal -.-

horray, our new Horace Jenkins got a 2year deal -.-


It's not THAT bad. Wasn't Horace Jenkins about 94 years old when we signed him?

usually, i'd say this board has a tendency to over emphasize the non-rotation players on our roster. but acker seems to fit the mold of us letting talent slip off the bottom of our bench.

I have to admit that I haven't seen that much of SL and box scores can be decieving but how can Joe justify moving on without Acker? I mean SL is about individual development much like the NBDL.

I think a lot of our peril is do to the fact that Joe has made the wrong cut in the past few seasons. I am not saying we lost a dominate player with cuts but I do think it hurt team morale.

Maybe we'll S&T Acker?

lol

What's on our roster that's holding us back from keeping both of them?

C - Nazr, Davis
PF - Sheed, McDyess, Maxiell
SF - Tay, Delfino, SuperDup, Johnson
SG - Rip, Murray, Acker
PG - Billups, Hunter, Blaylock

That's 15, and as far as I know, that's how many we can keep.

yeah you guys- who said we won't be able to keep them both, IF we want to?

blalock IMO has better nba potential. for those who didn't see him, acker played OK in summer league and did put up some points.

but watching him, he treated the ball like a hot potato and was basically just jacking shots up there. he did not shoot a high percentage, even when taking open shots.

i like his potential OK but i don't really know how he'll do against nba defenders. blalock on the other hand has the handle to really shake people and the skills to translate over to the nba game, once he becomes more assertive and improves his jumper also.

anyway, we can still keep them both if we so choose.

but IMO blalock is the one with the better potential anyway. i'm happy we locked him up, even if he starts off in the nbdl.

Maybe I am missing something, but how is Acker such a hot prospect? The guy shot sub %40 against borderline NBA players when crap refs were calling a thousand fouls a game. I think Acker has some tools and could become a rotation player some day, but people are pretty high on him here for some reason. I don't get it.

Acker works hard to improve...thats what i like about Amir, he works hard too, but has some real potential and won't bitch about anything :d

I think we could still sign Acker, as I mentioned above, especially if one/both are earmarked for the NBDL.

I'm wondering about the timing of the Blalock signing, what conclusions can be drawn from it if any?

Does it signal that Joe is done and had no other plans for the roster spot? That means either Acker or Cato are gone, maybe both.

Do guys have to be signed before they can play in the preseason games? If not, then this could have waited to see how Blalock performs then.

Blalock has already gotten farther than Ricky Paulding ever did.

usually, i'd say this board has a tendency to over emphasize the non-rotation players on our roster. but acker seems to fit the mold of us letting talent slip off the bottom of our bench.

What you have to understand is that since neither his first name nor last name end a vowel he has no potential. If his name was Alexandrovich Ackerionovilivili half the board would be calling him the next Jason Kidd except with a better jumper.

Piston fans don't like Americans.

usually, i'd say this board has a tendency to over emphasize the non-rotation players on our roster. but acker seems to fit the mold of us letting talent slip off the bottom of our bench.

What you have to understand is that since neither his first name nor last name end a vowel he has no potential. If his name was Alexandrovich Ackerionovilivili half the board would be calling him the next Jason Kidd except with a better jumper.

Piston fans don't like Americans.

lol... or it's because he was the "Mr. Irrelevant" pick. One of the two.

Acker shot like shyt and improved nothing playing at SG(which supposed to be more comfortable for him). please don't sign him. we can't develop everyone at once. just work on the youngsters we got in delfino, maxiell, amir, and maybe blalock.

usually, i'd say this board has a tendency to over emphasize the non-rotation players on our roster. but acker seems to fit the mold of us letting talent slip off the bottom of our bench.

What you have to understand is that since neither his first name nor last name end a vowel he has no potential. If his name was Alexandrovich Ackerionovilivili half the board would be calling him the next Jason Kidd except with a better jumper.

Piston fans don't like Americans.


do you hate every foreign player?

do you hate every foreign player?
yep. every one we sign anyways. :rolleyes:

I liked Zelly.

I didn't mind Arroyo except it became real clear real quick that he was just a bad fit for this team (both under Brown and Saunders).

I also liked Memo until his blind nut riding fanatics made hate him.

Every other ferner we've had has been a lazy, whiny, bitchmade piece of shit.

Why would anyone like any of them? None met expectations besides Memo.

I liked Zelly.
i didn't. but to each his own. he was an underachiever with no desire to improve IMO. Always flashed something, then either farted out a punk perfermance the next night. Memo had been guilty of that too, but his better performances far outweighed Zelly's and LB had his post game improving. But i never heard overrated talk about memo. so no i dont dislike him at all. the timing of his FA year was just unfortunate with sheed in the mix.

Zelly was a 30 or 31 year old rookie. His game had already peaked in Europe and his body was falling apart. He played hard and was the only ferner we ever had that got fiesty on the court.

. He played hard and was the only ferner we ever had that got fiesty on the court.
Maybe i have a different perception of the same games. but distinctly remembered a softy on the court when he played. had a decent post move. but was as soft as melted ice cream on defense. Far from anything fiesty. But i agree that he "tried hard" and had peaked out at his age.

Zelly was a 30 or 31 year old rookie. His game had already peaked in Europe and his body was falling apart. He played hard and was the only ferner we ever had that got fiesty on the court.


Didn't he also have heart problems?

damn cross, way to ruin a perfectly good 'zelly had no heart' joke opportunity. but wheres the class?

and i'll admit, my entire opinion of acker is from what he showed the pistons last year. i havent sen any Sl games. i thought he might have more game than smush, and smush turned out ok, so i think it would be a shame for him to be discovered by some other team. not a huge deal though, he probably wouldnt break out for us anyway.

smush has way more skills than acker. and this is coming from someone who likes acker's potential.

Zelly was a 30 or 31 year old rookie. His game had already peaked in Europe and his body was falling apart. He played hard and was the only ferner we ever had that got fiesty on the court.

Ahhh...Zelly.
The only ferner with the balls to mix shit up.

The drop off in talent after our Big5 is devastating. It's like falling off a clif. We have four all*stars, Dice & Nazr, and 6 NMDB/Summer Leauge/Euro Leauge/2nd round/WNBA/NIT/Bobcat/Jud Bucherler/John Crotty types.

Acker works hard to improve...thats what i like about Amir, he works hard too, but has some real potential and won't bitch about anything :d

Cleaves worked hard too. So did Darvin Ham. Doesn't mean they can shoot a lick. If Acker shot %43 (which still isn't great), I would think differently. but he can't run a team from the point and he can't shoot effectively either. What makes him any better than Dajuan Wagner?

Blalock does everything else better than acker, except shoot.

He's got a better chance at making this team in the future than Acker, who had his chance to impress in summer league and blew it.

Blalock really looked goot in the open floor and defensively. He's definately got a shot.

Blalock has 2 years to develop into Lindsey Hunter Part II and then he's done.

Either the kid can do it or he can't.

Acker? We can keep him or not, depends on what Joe wants to do with the roster spot.

It doesn't matter though, because Acker wouldn't have played anyway.

BLalock has excellent court vision, though, which I believe gives him the potential to be a real PG where Hunter fialed.

He made a lot of plays in summer leagues that didn't get him an assist, but set up plays to where the guy he passed to had an easy assist.

He thinks the game better than most rookies, which I think is an asset when it comes to emergency help.

Stats nonwithstanding, Blalock has much more potential than Acker, and at a position that we're more in need of.