OT- Pistons & day before draft

There's no way Dumars can turn this down if it's true. WTF is Minnesota thinking by making this move? 

if you dont want al jefferson, then you dont know basketball

Haha.  I'll admit that when they singed him I looked at the numbers and thought he would evolve into a better version of LeMarcus Aldridge, if given more minutes. After witnessing him first hand, I understand why the Bucks limited his playing time.

I hated the signing last year...hated as the year progressed...hate it even more now. we knew we would be bad this year. i wish we had waiting for this summer to spend. could have had a chance with Bosh or Amare or Boozer (i only would really want bosh from that group). Him and Ben Gordon didn't do much for me. Ben would be ok if we didn't already have rip and will bynum. Charlie V had little D and played around perimeter alot. 

Bringing up Charlie V and nobody talks about his domestic violence charge brought on yesterday? 

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/37863957/ns/sports-player_news/

I've been watching the Pistons for years, and charlie villanueva is the biggest waste of talent I've ever seen. One of my least favorite players ever.

you are right because headcases don't succeed in detroit (see Rasheed Wallace). Yes he has AI potentially but we already knew what AI was. You take away the headcase issue and Cousins is #1 or 2 draft pick. work the risk especially when our need is a big.

Edit: sorry that came out kind of jerk-ish. so i apologize. you are entitled to your opinion. However, Cousins has stated his #1 choice is Detroit and our #1 choice (realistically) is Cousins. I think (especially if we re-sign Big Ben) we could mentor him. There is a 1 Headcase per team role. Thus, why AI and Sheed failed. Having two headcases can lead to them hanging out and then you can get a fight in a palace

From what I've read and seen of him, the "head case" rep seems like an ill-fitting label.  What issues did he have at Kentucky besides yelling at Cal the one time? I know he had one incident in high school but hadn't heard anything beyond that.

Not to mention if an pychiatrist can help Artest, who's unredeemable?

Cousins is insanely talented and very young. He's not a headcase. Just lacks a little maturity. I followed Kentucky basketball this year and at the beginning of the year Cousins was always in foul trouble and getting in shoving matches, but he really calmed down and started to play as the year went on.

The Lakers just won the title with Ron Artest (who thanked his hood and his psychiatrist in his post-game interview) and Lamar Odom who eats like a pound of candy a day and thinks that second-string Kardashian was marriage material.

was pretty normal here in detroit for the most part... the weirdest thing he did way back then was shave odds things into his hair...it wasn't until chuck daly retired and his wife left him that he started going "crazy"... thats when the pistons traded him to the spurs and then he completely lost his mind...

Laimbeer and Mahorn were never considered headcases.  Mahorn briefly had a weight problem, but that was it.  Laimbeer was always considered a good locker room influence.  He was one of the guys who set people straight.

Instead of Cousins, I've heard the name Ed Davis from NC, for what it's worth.

I personally like Greg Monroe but I might be in the minority there. He's an excellent passer for a big already at this stage in his basketball life and has a high ceiling offensively and defensively. Either him or Ed Davis. I don't mind going upside at all....but Cousins hasn't shown anything besides being super talented with a crappy attitude. He came to the combine overweight and refused workouts for certain teams while Monroe came to the combine with a suit and tie aka he's SRS BISNESS. 

i know you're making a pretty reasonable, uncontroversial point here, but i actually disagree. this is high risk - high reward time for the pistons. my biggest concern about the pistons is that they're about to fall into the no-man's land where they aren't good enough to compete, aren't terrible enough to get the very top picks, and don't have enough cap space to pick up any big-time free agents.

they need a star (or two). if there's a decent chance that cousins can be that star, i think they have to go for it, even if there's a real risk of spectacular failure. hell, spectacular failure might even be better for us in the long run than moderate disappointment.

Cole Aldrich, Ed Davis or Faroq Al-Whatever his name is, then by all means make that deal.

we are stuck with Charlie V.  No one is gonna take on that contract for a guy who can't get off the bench.