OT-Started a Pistons Blawg

People who write blogs are nerds.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.  

On purpose?!

/s

Day to day updates are good, those are not extremely prevelant on the other blogs you mentioned.

As long as you put in the effort and try to release content nearly every day you should be good.

Good luck and can't wait to be a reader!

Go Blue! and Go Pistons!

cool, I work all the  Pistons  games  for FSN. I will check it out. I am working the draft party. It should be fun. I have no idea who they will pick. Good luck with the site. Go Pistons Go Blue!

Did you see the report that we might have made Leonard's promise? 

Houston continues to offer the 14th and 23rd picks in the draft to move into the top 10, and could have a willing partner with the Detroit Pistons at No. 8. The Pistons have told teams they won’t trade down until they see who drops to them on draft night, sources said. In what could be an interesting window into the Pistons’ preferences, San Diego State forward Kawhi Leonard worked out for Detroit on Monday, and shortly thereafter cancelled his Wednesday workout with the Milwaukee Bucks, who have the 10th pick.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_josh_smith_hawks_nba_draft_062011

I like Leonard and he would be a great fit for us.  I think it's down to Walker, Leonard, and jonas valanciunas, and if those guys aren't there I expect us to trade down.

double post

I think it's not that they're necessarily underwhelmed as much as picks 3-7 are still much of a mystery.  I think they would love a guy like Kanter, who some think will fall, but the Pistons are pretty confident there's no way he makes it that far.  Also, guys like Knight and Walker have some appeal but they already have guards somewhat covered.  I think a lot of teams refuse to accept Walker is a PG simply because he's the size of one.  I see a gritty undersized SG, and Ben Gordon is already a Piston.  Knight would be a nice compliment with his size and he is more of a PG, but then you introduce PT issues once again with the guard rotation.

So that leads everyone to talk of bigs and aside from TT they're foreigners, and that has been more hit-and-miss than anything.  They probably like guys, but who will be there?  Valanciunas may be there, but maybe not.  He just might be the best fit next to Monroe, but he's raw still.  Vesely has the length but isn't he a taller Jerebko? 

I think Thompson was the pick until Biyombo picked up steam.  Personally I feel more confident with Thompson. 

Personally I like the idea of trading down with the Rockets and taking Vucevic at 14 and a certain Darius Morris at 23.  I think Morris is a great fit for the Pistons because he brings size to the backcourt and is the truest PG there is, so a team with issues over who gets shots out of the backcourt could benefit greatly.  As far as Vucevic, he also has great size and can rebound.  He's not an embarrassment at the free throwe line the way some bigs are.

Hopefully you have an RSS feed that we can subscribe to?

I would love to see a Pistons blog named in honor of one of the toughest, least skilled players ever to don the uniform: Ron Lee.

Or, how about the classic journeyman Edgar Jones, he of the new-nickname-a-week club?

Detroitbadboys used to be my go-to pistons blog, but now it's got nothing interesting going for it. There's definitely room for a good pistons blog - I'm always on the lookout for pragmatic opinion much like Magnus or Brian or tomvh provide. My best advice would be to have an opinion and remember that people want both the info, and some help digesting it.

at WTFDetroit. 

I used to hang around there when the people at the Scout.com pistons board became dead and a member (name long forgotten) got me to come over to that board. 

I was at realgm and wtfdetroit for a long time.  The NBA board at wtf got too big for me and I couldn't keep up - didn't have that many hours in the day.  The NCAA board was the biggest draw for me and that turned into a pissing war, plus I would rather be waterboarded than read Zip Goshboots or bukdow.

Ill link you on midnight maize and my bulls blog dabullcrap. I find the Michigan blogosphere much more united in helping each other out. the bulls/nba blogging has been a more every man for them selves experience. good luck, post the url and ill add.

also I suggest Blogger for a new Blogger. its more user friendly but word press is more control on your code and how you want your blog to look. I use a custom word press code/layout for my blog. best of both worlds imo.

Artermis. 

It has been a while since I hung out over there.  I liked them for the most part but I lost interest in Piston basketball 5 or so years ago. 

And the fighting gets kind of old. 

If you write, they will come.

In the salaries it's always nice to have details about how long guys are under contract, when they're going to be UFA or RFA, and if there are any restrictions for trade purposes (BYC, etc).

I've never seen a site that has done this, but I would like to see, sortable by date and player, any trade rumors that have been associated with them in the past 2 years or so.

Congrats and good luck!

Check other browsers to see if your layout works in them.  I hadn't known about PistonPowered, so I took a look.  In Firefox 4.01 and 5.0 (since I just upgraded), the main background is all red.  Hard to read - especially the post titles, which are in red, so invisible.  Works in Chrome, but I mostly use Firefox.

Good luck.

Have you ever checked out nbaplaybook.com?

Sebastian Pruiti, the author of that site, focuses on the X's and O's a little bit and breaks down how and why plays work.  I don't know how deep your technical expertise goes, but if you know bball concepts, understand the game and have somewhat of a basic scouting report for most players in the league, it may be worth a shot.

As a bball fan, I've always been searching for some form of analysis beyond the generic 'worked harder, better chemistry, fire dumars/kuester, GET BACK TO DETROIT BASKETBALL' type of analysis.

Something in that type of format, but strictly Pistons-based would fit a niche that DBB and Piston Powered largely don't cover.