Official Darko Watch

look,i dont know any other way to say this, your starting to piss me off.

if you think darko could never have worked in detroit, fine, thats your opinion.

i say, detroit played darko ~ 100 minutes this year. thats not an opportunity. thats an exercise in futility. we put him in a position to fail, and he did.

i dont know where your getting all this BS tanking shit. it was reported that darko played well in the international games. it was reported darko played well in preseason. i dont recall him playing so poorly in what pt he got for us (all things considered).

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Originally Posted by Kstat

Not to mention by all accounts, he was tanking in PRACTICE.

In Detroit, that's unforgiveable.

Indeed. I just don't know. I get the feeling that to sum in a subconcious thinking Darko was more important than the pistons to them. I liked that darko failed the way he did. It makes Dumars smarter in his drafting to look for good people. Not just good players. That is the one good thing out of picking him i think we'll get in future drafts.

BTW we can thank Orlando for narrowing our magic number for clinching the central down to 6.

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Originally Posted by b-diddy

look,i dont know any other way to say this, your starting to piss me off.

if you think darko could never have worked in detroit, fine, thats your opinion.

i say, detroit played darko ~ 100 minutes this year. thats not an opportunity. thats an exercise in futility. we put him in a position to fail, and he did.

i dont know where your getting all this BS tanking shit. it was reported that darko played well in the international games. it was reported darko played well in preseason. i dont recall him playing so poorly in what pt he got for us (all things considered).

LOL@B-Diddy. You are loving this guy too hard if you're pissed. Like i said some love him more than the pistons it seems. In the position to fail? If he shows half of something we keep him and increase his minutes. Thats a situation to fail. He was a number 2 pick and if he just scored 4-6 points a game off the bench, rebounded, and played hard. He gets time. Funny.

Either way we are talking bout Darko. nobody important. So relax with the anger.

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Originally Posted by Rorschach

But he is a problem in the locker room for players busting they ass. If you bust your ass at work and the new guy slacks off, you're gonna have an issue with it. You may not be vocal out loud about it. But you wouldnt like it. Its not fair to give him minutes when Maxiel and Johnson play harderer. I still think Amir has more athletic potential than Darko anyways.

i think its pretty assinine to compare work to the nba, but heres a better analogy.

your an 18 year old out of school getting hired to a job. you have to go regardless, but you only get paid if you outperform the guy infront of you who's got tons of experience and is considered an expert in his/your field.

how long are you going to bust your ass trying to get a paycheck before you give up.

darko apparantly didnt make it 2 and 1/2 years, what a pansy.

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Originally Posted by b-diddy

darko apparantly didnt make it 2 and 1/2 years, what a pansy.

I agree [smilie=2thumbsup.g:

Also, I don't think it helped Darko's mindset that he saw McDyess continue to play 20 minutes a game despite playing like shit for the first month of the season. I can see how he would get frustrated by the DNPs and 3-4 minutes.

As you could see today, 4-5 minutes isn't enough for him. He didn't do jack for that much time when he got in the game. Then all of a sudden he turned it on a bit. Unfortunately, he only got more than 5 minutes of REAL time in detroit twice. That was at the end of the 04-05 regular season. MAybe the "I was cold" thing is legit? [smilie=anxious.gif]

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Originally Posted by Rorschach

Either way we are talking bout Darko. nobody important. So relax with the anger.

what the hell are you talking about?

fuck yea im pissed.

maybe you dont remember 2002 when detroit won the lottery and got the #2 pick in one of the most anticipated drafts of our lifetime.

if that day (game 2 of the jersey series) i brought up the idea of trading that pick for an unprotected 2008 pick i would have been laughed out of detroit.

darko was one of the most anticipated draft picks i've ever seen.

darko failed. and no, im not a fan of him anymore (though i look at his stats in a boxscore before anyone elses). i just realize that darko's failure is detroit's failure.

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Originally Posted by b-diddy

darko failed. and no, im not a fan of him anymore (though i look at his stats in a boxscore before anyone elses). i just realize that darko's failure is detroit's failure.

Dude dont take this the wrong way but fuck your whole idea about whats failure and sucess in Detroit For the Pistons organizations. right now Champioship rings=Sucess, No rings=Failure. No ifs, ands, buts, loopholes, or spins. We arent a fucking lottery team. For a Lottery team trading darko away is a failure. For us its just unfortunate. But the failure is in Darko keeping up with the players that made this team what it is. Darko is irrelevent to are success. His absence doesnt cripple us, hamper us, destroy us, or do anything to kill our future. If anything like i said before, its a great thing that HE failed and that Joe Dumars got a glimpse of how not to pick in future drafts.

Not a Darko fan? you're in denial. You're a fan and searching for his stat line is fan shit. Not anyone and everyone is searching for Darko's statline in hopes of finding some sort of proof we shoulda kept him.

I'll say it once, and i'll say it again. Get over it. Man i dont wanna imagine how you were when we "sign and traded" grant hill and dumped rodney white to dungver. [smilie=annoyed.gif] This shit is too pathetic to be mad about. The guy is gone and we arent any less talented as a team because of it. If anything we're better because we dont have to take out dale davis's minutes to help Darkhead's ego.

Man i've never seen you in so much denial about the guy. He can do no wrong in your book it seems. And the truth is he did too much wrong. Even for a young guy he was stupid and arrogant with nothing to show for it. Rodney White all over again. When you get traded blame the Pistons. [smilie=annoyed.gif]

If you wanna follow Darko fine.

If you wanna follow him to diss or blame us for dumping him, with all due respect fuck you. You'd be just as much an asinine prick as he has been bitching about his "horrific" experience being here.