Phil Jackson
love those two.
If Dumars doesn't go, there will be another post in 2 years announcing a coaching firing.
Frank, Kuester, Curry, Flip....who wants to work for a guy that assembles a bunch of the same parts and expects you to win with them. No good coach would take this job.
If anything, Joe is a victim of his early success, when he made a couple of great trades to help build an NBA Championship team out of nothing. GM's started lowballing him, because they were afraid of being the next GM to be "posterized" by Joe Dumars.
Compounding the problem: no FA is going to choose to play in Detroit if he has nicer cities to play in. When it comes to free agents, the Pistons are a "fallback offer" in case they can't go where they really want to play. Consequently, the Pistons have to overpay for mediocre players just to fill out roster spots.
Whether you like Joe or not, he has been directly involved in all three NBA Championships the Pistons have ever won.
There was NO reason to sign both Gordon and Villaneuva to "boat anchor" contracts.
but some of this is Joe's fault. Michael Curry, Billups for Iverson, BG for 60 mil. These were intensely bad decisions that set the franchise back a good deal. Some of the heat Joe is getting is not deserving, but some of the decisions he has made are fireable offenses.
I agree with the rest, but I will still argue that Billups for Iverson was a great trade and a ballsy one, and Billups is one of my favorite Pistons ever (and I loathe Iverson). The problem wasn't that trade, but what Joe did with the cap space it created. It was a genius move followed by a series of terrible decisions that wasted all of the positives of that trade.
week he traded for cap space (aka Iverson) which meant he basically tied one hand behind his back immediately after freeing the other one. It made zero sense at the time and it showed Joe had no long term vision for the rebuild. Since 2008 he has basically been a disaster aside from getting lucky in the draft a couple times when Monroe and Drummond fell into his lap.
he tied the hand behind his back(Rip's hand actually) before freeing the other, assuring that Rip would be nice and disgruntled for the next 5 years. Rip was not signing to a rebuilding project when he signed that contract and that is what he ended up with 2 days later.
You can't keep surviving off of 9 year old success. While he had good luck early in his tenure as GM, the reason the Pistons have sunk to the bottom instead of reloaded aren't because teams are afraid of him or because free agents are unwilling to play in Detroit.
The reason they have stunk starts with the draft: Rodney White and Mateen Cleeves, Darko Milicic, Austin Daye, and Rodney Stuckey. Supplement those busts with ridiculous signings of guys like Ben Gordon and Charlie V (when those positions weren't at all priorities), aquiring Iverson (notice I didn't say trading Billups), and re-signing below average talent to new contracts (Stuckey, Prince, etc.)
Apart from salary cap decisions? There have been a couple, but they are outweighed in my view by all of the terrible ones
It bugs me that people cant debate on this site sometimes because of downvotes when it isn't a trolling situation. It would be much better to state why they disagree.........
Why I disagree is the fact that your premise that GM's are scared of each other is way off. To be a GM you have to be completely confident and know your stuff. Every team has a different need that has to be addressed.
He has milked his past success beyond where he deserves to be a GM anymore. The only thing that would prohibit me from canning him is the lack of an obvious successor. NBA is way different than NFL for identifying the next great thing in the front office. When you monitor 300 athletes in the league vs almost 1000 there is a much smaller pool to draw from.
The way is the draft. Joe has sucked at the draft. He might of finally of done OK with last year but even Monroe is not getting a lot better than what he showed initially
There are only 4-5 sexy places to play. There are only so many max players those teams can sign. That is another excuse.
Tough to blame a coach when he is given nothing to work with.
Those are the two names I'd look at. However, we'll probably hire the 3rd assistant on the Memphis Grizzlies.
I'd also throw big time money at Andre Iguodala and do my best to draft Trey Burke.
Scott Skiles?
But he wasn't well recieved by the young teams that he's coached.
We're clearly building through the draft, I just don't know if it's a good fit. Solid coach though.
Someone below here mentioned Bill Laimbeer. Although I like the sound of that, he might fall into that same category of a coach that players might not like.
Which is why I feel Laimbeer would be solid in the NBA, just not in Detroit with THIS team. I think he would've been great with Billups, Prince, Wallace and co.
Laimbeer is a hard charger. A team of vets would not of received his leadership well IMO.
The young guys need it.
You can always judge a coach on the effort and attitude of the team. Frank failed
'have', not 'of'. Third post in a row=you're out.
Hey guys! That one legendary guy we've all heard about that has never committed a typo: THIS IS HIM! On OUR board!
This is from your history of posting.
It's not a typo if you make the same mistake three times in three separate posts. In that case, it's a clear misunderstanding of the English language.
Iguodala has a player option worth 15 million, I highly doubt he opts out.
Are there any other "sub-Elite" FAs?
Chris Paul
Dwight Howard
Andrew Bynum
Josh Smith
Al Jefferson
David West
Paul Milsap
Manu
Carl Landry
Kevin Martin
JJ hickson
Players who could opt out
Oj mayo says he will opt out
Iggy
JR Smith
Monta Ellis
Chris Paul - Don't have a shot in hell
Dwight Howard - Same
Andrew Bynum - Wouldn't touch with a 10' pole
Josh Smith - Don't need a PF
Al Jefferson - Don't need a PF
David West - Don't need a PF
Paul Milsap - Don't need a PF
Manu - Too old
Carl Landry - Can't build team around him
Kevin Martin - I'd sign, but not for max money or anything close.
JJ hickson - Don't need a PF
Players who could opt out
Oj mayo says he will opt out - Seems like a headache, but the guy can ball. I don't think we could ge anyone better.
Iggy - Again, he'd be my #1, a winner and a team player
JR Smith - Nope, great off the bench, like Jamal Crawford, don't fall in the start money trap
Monta Ellis - Never going to lead a team beyond an 8-seed.
Martin, Mayo and "Iggy" are the only players I'd even look at off this list. I'd be interested to see how everyone else felt about those 3.
April 18th, 2013 at 11:59 PM ^
I bet Larry Brown would just love to work for Joe Dumars again.
Firing Frank isn't the wrong move per se but it's a little troubling that only one coach has ever lasted more than two years under Joe D. If I were Gores I would be telling Joe this is his last chance to get it right. New coach, cap room, and some building blocks named Drummond and Monroe and possibly Knight. If he can't make that work, it'll be time for new management.
April 18th, 2013 at 11:57 PM ^
That's too bad. He seemed like a decent guy. The team has a little bit of talent, but they're young. That's a coach-firing-presser waiting to happen for a coach.
Good luck to him.
also needs to hit the unemployment line, drafting SG's year in and year out has not helped this team win
In two of the past three years, we've taken bigs in the first round.
If you're counting 2nd round picks, I know we've taken a couple of SG's.
How often do 2nd round picks work out in the NBA?
...the trade for Iverson while Billups was still in hi prime was the straw that broke the camel's back...Dumars will not change, and the losing records are proof, he needs to go
...is that it was another TERRIBLE move by Dumars
were close to their prime. Dumars should of tried to milk another year or two out of Billups but he was clearly going downhill
Billups Averaged 17.9, 19.5, 16.5 and 17.5 points per game and over 5 assists per game for each of the 4 years after he left the Pistons and lead the Nuggets to the Western Conference Finals....so yeah, i would say he was still in his prime
Basically any pick outside of the top five, it's hard to get an impact player. Considering Joe D. has never picked inside the top five since he was a young GM, he's found some pretty good value picks.
April 19th, 2013 at 12:03 AM ^
From what I am hearing Tom Izzo has ties with Tom Gores and will be top candidate, also Bill Laimbeer's name is in the mix.
The roster is terrible. We have one borderline All-Star (Monroe), one very good prospect (Drummond), and everyone else would pretty much be a 8th or 9th man off the bench on any team over .500.
Post? Check (although he wasn't fond of it, he did have post moves).
Jumper? Check.
Play D? Check.
BALL DON'T LIE!!!
Fourth consecutive coaching search where I believe this man is the solution.
Maybe, but why hasn't he received a good job already?
I figure he burned too many bridges in his playing days and the old boy network just doesn't support him. It's one thing to win and then reveal yourself as an ass, as Popovich has done, it's another to be vilified by every fanbase outside of Detroit and then try to get into the front office.
Because the players he was a dick to in his playing days are now the ones in charge of hiring decisions. I love Laimbeer, but I'm not gonna pretend he was real popular around the league.
I sure wouldn't mind bringing him to coach, though.
Laimbeer should take the job
What's he doing now? Last I checked (and this was way way back) he was coaching the Shock. He still do that?