Brendan Quinn on Beilein/Pistons: It could actually happen
Quinn is pretty connected to the Beilein camp and seems to think there is genuine interest from both sides. He goes into further detail in a piece for the Athletic.
1) This ain't about John Beilein leveraging for more money.
— Brendan F. Quinn (@BFQuinn) June 3, 2018
2) The Pistons are quite serious about Beilein
3) This could actually happen.
That and much more, here:https://t.co/m60AIgeBfU
Big 3 of Drummond, Griffin, Jackson at $75m the next three years. Then he gets to start a rebuild at age 68, in front of empty seats. I refuse to believe he would leave for that.
Except they don't. Of the 4 major professional sports leagues, NBA franchises are the hardest to turn around. It is much easier to turnover a roster in the NFL with nonguaranteed contracts, a hard salary cap, and a bigger emphasis on team building vs individual stars.
The NBA has guaranteed contracts and heavier emphasis on star players. And a small market team like the Pistons is not going to be able to sign a star free agent without the pieces in place to win. You can't win big in the NBA today without an All-NBA player which the Pistons don't have. The Pistons are several years from even starting a rebuild with Blake Griffin under contract until 2022, Reggie Jackson until 2020, no draft pick in 2018, and recent draft picks that show little promise to become playoff caliber NBA starters. They need to trade Griffin (and possibly Drummond) to bottom out and win some lottery top-5 picks.
I doubt Beilein would be around to see the fruits of his labors if he left, but the challenge may interest him. I have my doubts a veteran roster like the Pistons is going to be very open to Beilein-style coaching, and it will take Beilein until his 70s to see his own roster.
Why would Hoston do this? They already have essentially the same thing in Capela, who is younger and more mobile, and even though they would have to match the big offer he gets this off season, it's not like Drummond is a cheap guy to have on the books.
I am sorry but my loyalty is to Michigan first, as much as I love Beilein. If he were to leave now with no warning I would accept that as his choice and I would even undersand it. At the same time he would be going to work for a douche Sparty owner in a no win situation Pistons team that I would root against, plain and simple. I am a fan, if I can accept Chelios as a Red Wing and cheer him on, I can hate Beilein as a Piston and boo him every chance I get... and I would.
Because he would be walking away from the thing that he has been building, just as everything is falilng into place. I would not appreciate that in any way at all.
An interview has occured by a team with no GM and an owner who is desperate to fill seats at little ceasars and has no clue how to do it. The only reason he brought Griffon here is he thought a "star" would get people interested. Now he thinks a local coach with some success might be worth a try, Gores is a clown who knows nothing about basketball. Beilein is 65 with zero NBA experience, he has had some success here but lets not act like he has been dominant. Many in this fanbase have wanted him fired on more than one occasion. I can understand why Beilein would take the job, but there is no logical reason the Pistons should offer it. No other NBA team would even consider interviewing him... theres a reason for that and it's not because Gores knows more about basketball than the rest of the league.
I still don't have confirmation that they have offered him as of today. A very good source continues to state that he will be back in AA next year. Let's get this thing over with Warde!
People with strong ties to the program are standing by their statements that he will be back.
This is dragging out to long for all of our liking. Warde needs to hammer this thing home. It should not have taken this long to keep the coach that you want to retire here.
Warde needs to launch the Michigan money cannon already!!!
Its almost like there are two sides to a negotation. Weird.
and why are they sure? Has Beilein talked to them personally and assured them that he's not going anywhere? If so, that's not much of a negotiating position for him, and there's no need for Warde to do anything. Or is this people in the athletic department assuring you and others that no matter what the Pistons offer Beilein, Michigan will offer him more, whatever it takes to keep him?
I put this in yesterday's thread as well. Warde needs to close the extension deal ASAP. For the longer this drags out, the more there will be speculation Tweets / BR reports / Internet trolls looking to get site hits by throwing out information.
The art of negotiation is to determine what is the other person's selling point. In this case, Warde needs to determine what is JB's selling point and close the deal. This can not drag on.
As others have stated, MAYBE JB is interested, I dont know and I certainly dont believe anyone else knows on this site.
I just have to believe that where JB is at right now in his career (and yes age), staying at Michigan is the best choice. Keep in mind, winning the NCAA would be a pretty cool thing too and if i had to put odds on which would most likely happen over the next 5 years (Mich winning the NCAA or the Pistons winning the NBA). I belive it is too obvious that it is Michigan winning the NCAA......
That was free without paying the subscription. DId not see anything in there other than what Beilein has done at Michigan.
Is there anything in the article that says detailed information about new sources?
if the day ever comes when the fucking Pistons steal Beilein away, I would root for the Pistons to crash and burn for the rest of eternity
The Pistons are the least cared about team in Detroit.
Life would go on rather quickly because no one cares about them unless they are good. The LIONS have one playoff win in the modern era and are more relevant than the sorry Pistons.
I hope they relocate to Seattle. People who actually would support an NBA team. It would also get all that junk out of the rafters at the LCA so the Red Wings can hang all of their banners.
I don't support teams owned by MSU affiliates.
I take it you just don't enter Detroit city limits ever then considering Dan Gilbert, an MSU alum, owns most of it?
Always can count on WD exaggerating something for the dumbest reasons.
Dan Gilbert is a clown. All he cares about is downtown and lining his pockets and at the same time touts the revitalization of Detroit when in reality, downtown is all he's contributing to. NOT the city of Detroit. Just to get money of the outsiders who come down to Detroit to spend money and go back up into the suburbs.
Not the actual neighborhoods, not Detroit schools. Just in it for himself.
I'm in Detroit 5 days a week. Girlfriend also lives in Midtown.