Detroit / Houston

[Glenn]

It does feel familiar.

[Glenn]

Come meet and greet injured Pistons star Tracy McGrady on "TMac lazy eye crooked autograph night"

[Glenn]

First 11,000 fans with at least one lazy eye get a free ticket. Got two lazy eyes? Get 2 tickets, 2 got dogs and 2 t-shirts for just $59!

[Joe Asberry]

Pistons need a superstar, didnt you know that! and Tmac is a superstar!
Tmac could be ready to play when the deadline approaches, no ones knows...

[Pharaoh]

If we did that deal at the deadline what would the off-season be like?

If it's anything like this past off-season the love cave would be a safer place, even though I'd have 3 kids by then.

I dhonestly don't know if I could handle Joe having a lot of cap space again so soon. Maybe in another couple of years.

[Glenn]

In reading around a few other places, I'm seeing some sentiment from Pistons fans for a Rip/Tay for TMac deal.

Can TMac still take the banging at SF? Does it matter?

[Pharaoh]

At this point I don't think it matters.

IF we did that trade then we'd be looking at signing someone (Bosh?) this coming off-season.

We'd have some assets to part with in a sign and trade (Stuckey/our 2010 Pick/Wilcox/Daye/Summers) IF Bosh wanted to come here.

A trio of Bosh, Nova and Gordon is a very nice place to start phase II (or would it be III?) of the rebuilding

[Glenn]

How about Rip/Tay/Max (or Kwame) for TMac/Battier/Filler?

[WTFchris]

I'd do that in a second. That expiring would probably be our best shot at a legit big.

[Cross]

that'd be a good deal. For Houston, Tay can replace battier's defensive presence, although not as efficiently as battier. rip can easily make up for the scoring presence tmac couldve gave him. I don't think they'd accept max, and have no need for kwame.

Yao/Hayes
Scola/Landry
Tay/Ariza
Rip/Ariza
Brooks/Lowry

That's a pretty decent looking team and can have many different lineups in there. I don't know what the starting lineup would look like though.

a combo of stuckey gordon and battier should be promising, but what we do with tmacs expiring is more crucial. signing a big with that money would be ideal, but are we an attractive enough place for FA's?