Open roster spot

Any thoughts on team needs?

Any names come to mind?

I've already thrown out Pat Ewing Jr and Lindsey Hunter (partially joking about that one).

Dyess is supposedly being bought out so he could come back...

I think the trade eats up the last little bit of room we had under the tax so I could see us carrying 14 or 13.

ESPN last week said we were $2,134,722 under the tax threshhold.

Subtract Chauncy's $11,050,000 and Dyess' $6,813,050 and Samb's $797,581 and add AI's $20,840,000 and we appear to be $44,000 over the threshhold. I bet they pro-rate it and it leaves us just under the threshold but that probably means we can't really add anyone else unless we're dropping more salary.

Some of these numbers could be wrong (hoopshype claims AI gets $21.9 this year, which would make it worse) but I bet it'll definitely be a factor in adding veterans down the stretch.

I think that you can sign players to the vets minimum and their salaries don't count towards the tax, but I'm not 100% on that.

I'll keep my phone on and my gym shorts out.

I was gonna say Quinton Ross, but Memphis apparently re-signed him after cutting him.

Damon Stoudamire or Eddie Jones?

I say we cross that bridge when we come to it.

Oh, hells yeah.

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Originally Posted by Glenn

I think that you can sign players to the vets minimum and their salaries don't count towards the tax, but I'm not 100% on that.

I don't know for sure either but I thought that was just for going over the cap, not the luxury tax. We need Bstein or somebody.

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Originally Posted by gusman

why not bring back webber???????? We are just going to lose to boston or cleveland anyways. just like the kenny chesney song we are going back to cleveland and losing, the best we can hope for is cleveland playing boston in the second round that way we can play boston in the ECF and say that we made it there again. can someone please explain to me how we are going to make to the nba finals, boston is 3x the media draw of the pistons, the pistons are the losing wrestler in the wwf we are the randy macho man savage of the world, i wish it were not this way but i cant see any differently atleast not lately, so in conclusion the only way that I see us beating boston is if we had made the trade for kobe earlier in the year and that way we would carry that celebrity status that david stern and the nba crave. I told the palace president last year that we were going to lose to LEBRon in the RCF and they kicked me out of the palace and made me write apology letters. screw it if we lose again this year and i think it is based on the nba fixing it to get the more popluar team in the finals i will never watch another piston game again. I love that we are winning these days but part of me missed the loser days of the 90's. I miss t mill and the teal jerseys, and grant hill otis throrpe joe d. when we were losers it was fun to go to games, jon barry would just get the crowd pumped, I cant remember the last time i went to a game were i thought th e crowd was really into it, the prices are redicoulouysy high and I will not stand for it any longer, this is my last year dealing with these sons a bitches and there over priced supply and demand prices, i want some god damn answeres and i want them now.

I'd just keep them open, especially if he's planning on more trades. Whoever we sign isn't even going to come close to playing anyway. Sign somebody when we lose a starter for a while.

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Originally Posted by Vinny

I don't know for sure either but I thought that was just for going over the cap, not the luxury tax. We need Bstein or somebody.

Bstein is busy.

I wonder how AI and Mutombo get along?

Perhaps I'll consult this.

Hey, at least Stuckey will get extra practice time when AI doesn't show up!

Yay Chris! AI will affect Stuckey's development positively after all.

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Originally Posted by WTFchris

Hey, at least Stuckey will get extra practice time when AI doesn't show up!

practice..we talking about practice..not the game

juwan howard is apparently about to become available, according to ESPN.

Looks like our depth chart is now:
Iverson/Stuckey/Bynum
Hamilton/Afflalo/Acker
Prince/Hermann/Sharpe
Johnson/Maxiell
Wallace/Brown

It would appear that we need to sign another center (since both Hermann and Sharpe are capable of playing PF, and Tayshaun also could in a pinch), McDyess or not.
PJ Brown, Juwan Howard, Aaron Williams, Alonzo Mourning (not happening), Dikembe Mutombo (also not happening), Michael Doleac, and Scot Pollard are all available.
Any of them could be injury/foul insurance as a 6th big man.

Of course, if there were any injury to the backcourt I would immediately sign another backup PG. I cringe at the thought of either Bynum or Acker playing minutes there.

Bynum has been playing really good, imo.

Bynam is the best #3 PG we've had since Dana Barros 7 years ago. I'm very happy with him.

Same here. He can get in the lane with ease, but his defense needs a lot of work. He's got quick hands there but needs to stay in front of his man, fight through screens better, etc... Well, from the one game I saw so far (last night).

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Bynum didn't do anything for me in the pre-season, which should have been the easiest time for him to impress me. I was surprised when he got a contract offer.

Then again, I haven't seen a full game this season because of school :-/ Perhaps I'm missing something.

Bynum has looked VERY strong

Yeah, I haven't caught any of the games with Stuckey starting and Bynum being the primary backup.

and I have to miss today's game to go to frat chapter! ugh.

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Originally Posted by lospistones

Yeah, I haven't caught any of the games with Stuckey starting and Bynum being the primary backup.

and I have to miss today's game to go to frat chapter! ugh.

I have a fraternity meeting today at 6:40 so i'll miss most of the game.

And before anyone else can say it, haha at us for being in fraternities, blah blah visors blah blah popped collars, etc, etc.

I'll sign for the MLE.

Yea, I have a lil bit of a hard time feeling sorry for someone making 5 mil a year playing basketball.

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Desmond (Round Rock, Texas): With Cheikh Samb gone, Detroit has a free roster spot. Any chance of Ronald Dupree returning to regain his fabled 15th roster spot? He is my favorite Pistons benchwarmer.

Langlois: I would think that’s unlikely, given the makeup of the team, Desmond. The Pistons have three small forwards now in Tayshaun Prince, Walter Herrmann and Walter Sharpe, plus Rip Hamilton and Arron Afflalo can play there. The Iverson trade meant they went from six big men to four, so I would expect them to look to add a solid big man with the 14th roster spot and probably keep the 15th spot open until later in the season, at least.

:langlois:

Why is the first response from the type of fans that email this guy always to return to a dude we've let go. Do people get that attached to scrubs?

It won't take long for teams to find out that Bynum doesn't pass... Flip Murray syndrome

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Originally Posted by Zekyl

I have a fraternity meeting today at 6:40 so i'll miss most of the game.

And before anyone else can say it, haha at us for being in fraternities, blah blah visors blah blah popped collars, etc, etc.

Ha. I was a "bro" for Halloween.
Look up the video "Bro rape" if you don't know what I mean.

Bonzi Wells

Bonzi Wells would force Sharpe to the DLeague, which is a good thing. But what about Hermann? Is he full-time PF now, or just out of the rotation? Or does he beat out Bonzi?

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Originally Posted by lospistones

Bonzi Wells would force Sharpe to the DLeague, which is a good thing. But what about Hermann? Is he full-time PF now, or just out of the rotation? Or does he beat out Bonzi?

I'm not exactly sold on Hermann like a lot of fanboys. It'd be nice to have a decent scorer & rebounder behind him for when he legitimately starts sucking.

I agree with Jesus.

Ruben Patterson is available.

Pro's

- best player to ever defend Kobe Bryant

- savvy veteran

- better than Kwame Brown

Con's

- registered sex offender

- born in Cleveland, OH

- he's 231 years old in dog years

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Originally Posted by lospistones

Ha. I was a "bro" for Halloween.
Look up the video "Bro rape" if you don't know what I mean.

Same here. Backwards upside down visor, popped collared hollister shirt borrowed from my roommate that actually is a bro, jeans with the pre-ruffed up holes. Everyone kept asking if I went as my roommate and he got pissed.

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Originally Posted by Zekyl

Same here. Backwards upside down visor, popped collared hollister shirt borrowed from my roommate that actually is a bro, jeans with the pre-ruffed up holes. Everyone kept asking if I went as my roommate and he got pissed.

Haha I had a white baseball hat with the pre-frayed brim, two popped collars (inside pink, outside blue), greenish golfer shorts, a livestrong bracelet, and I sprayed axe on myself every 10 minutes or so.
That's awesome though.
People thought I was just a douchebag on the regular, and not in character. Which was depressing and hilarious simultaneously.