Official Pistons Summer League thread (old thread from 2006)

[Black Dynamite]

banks is a potential guy whose never consistently panned out IMO. It would be nice if the celtics gave up delonte west. that would be a perfect fit. solid defender, decent shooter when given the open shot, can push the ball up the court, and can block shots at the PG position.

[Higherwarrior]

i'd LOVE to have a real 3 guard rotation, with another really good PG coming off the bench.

like you said, there would be at least 25 minutes for said guard to have, IN THEORY. however, that is assuming our buddy flip can distribute minutes sensibly, which IMO he has shown he CAN'T. if avery johnson was our coach, i'd feel confident we could make good use of a deep bench. but we have flip instead.

i don't want to hear nonsense about flip not being able to 'trust' certain bench players, etc. it's impossible to trust them when you never give them a chance!

i have to assume joe is having a SERIOUS talk with flip about his use of the bench- or lack thereof.

[Pharaoh]

He's having the talk and interviewing former head coaches.

I think it's safe to say Flip will get the message.

[Kilo]

Does this mean Wayne Wallace will be cut from our Summer League team??

[Glenn]

Does this mean Wayne Wallace will be cut from our Summer League team??

Ha Ha! Vengeance is sweet!!

[Pharaoh]

LMMFAO

[Uncle Mxy]

It'd be sweet if Wayne Wallace made the team and Ben had to play against him every time he played against us.

[Glenn]

Could we force Wayne to wear a fro?

[Kstat]

Wayne is actually a little taller than Ben....

01 Rodney Billups G 5-10 165 Denver
05 Rasheim Wright G 6-3 190 District of Columbia
06 Alex Acker G 6-5 185 Pepperdine
07 Frank Williams G 6-3 212 Illinois
08 Sam Hoskin F 6-8 245 DePaul
09 Wayne Wallace C 6-9 215 Virginia Union
10 Will Blalock G 6-0 205 Iowa State
12 Nik Caner-Medley F 6-8 240 Maryland
17 Marko Jovanovic C 7-0 248 Serbia & Montenegro
18 Cheikh Samb C 7-1 195 Senegal
23 Rick Rickert F 6-11 235 Minnesota
25 Amir Johnson F 6-9 210 Westchester HS (LA)
54 Jason Maxiell F 6-7 260 Cincinnati

How about the irony of having another 7-foot serbian center on the roster...

Caner-Medly is known to me because of his Terp days, but he isn't very good. Rick Rickert should be interesting.

And how about Frank Williams?

Remember how we tried to get him from chicago two years ago, and wound up getting arroyo after they turned us down?

[Kstat]

BTW, NBATV will air the following Pistons games at the following times:

vs PHX 7/10-airs 7/14
vs NYK 7/11-airs 7/17
vs LAC 7/13-airs 7/20
vs BOS 7/14-airs 7/21

..or you could shell out the $10 for the vegas summer league courtside live package, which doesnt show the whole games from what I can tell, but does include highlight packages.