@nolanbellavance
@taylorgarron
Wow, amazing, you’re not even one of the people she’s talking about in her post and you still managed to make it all about you.
Detroit has acquired players on short term deals that fit their timeline, fit their franchise player’s skillset, and fit into their locker room. All it cost was Grimes, who didn’t want to be here and you got back picks there anyway. And yet you still have people complaining.
@harrytlambert
@bariweiss
@nytimes
“Crushed” lmao she literally owes her entire career to it. She got her start trying to get pro-Palestinian college professors fired. Everything her critics say about her is true, as even her supporters admit in your own piece.
@ashleyrcarman
“You can accept lower pay than the pittance we already give you, or nobody will ever find your music.” This isn’t a streaming app, it’s an extortion racket.
Alec Burks should not play another game for this franchise. It might seem like an overreaction to some, but I think it’s genuinely disrespectful to fans who pay their hard earned money to watch you lose 27 games in a row and laugh it up afterwards. Beyond unprofessional.
I just feel bad for Detroit fans whose best sports radio option is a show where guys tell you Cade Cunningham isn’t worth a max extension because he isn’t a better center than Al Horford.
Monty on playing Wiseman over Muscala: “I like what he’s giving us, especially on the defensive side.” Said that when you have smaller guards like Sass and Flynn, you need rim protection.
@getfiscal
Maybe they could reveal him to be Dr Manhattan (very poetic because of the Manhattan project) at the end and link everything together with the watchmen universe. Think it would be a lot of fun for Oppenheimer-heads and comic book lovers alike!
@UberFacts
Just a hard working young man getting along with nothing but his smarts, some will, and millions upon millions of dollars from his dad’s slave labor emerald mine.
Pistons with Cade and Killian last night: 26 minutes, offensive rating of 107.8, defensive rating of 119.2, net rating of -11.4
Pistons with Cade and Ivey last night: 8 minutes, offensive rating of 140, defensive rating of 120, net rating of +20.
What am I missing here?
Cade looked the best I have ever seen him last night, and it was with Jaden Ivey not in the lineup
I am starting to wonder if Cade and Ivey fit next to each other long term
I hope they do, because I love JI and Cade, but I’m starting to question it
#Pistons
#DetroitBasketball
I don’t believe the Pistons are better without Cade, I believe the Pistons are better when they spread the ball around and allow their athletes to make plays. That’s not a Cade issue, it’s a coaching issue imo.
Three Detroit sports legends and room for one more.
Nicklas Lidström, Calvin Johnson Jr. and Ben Wallace invited
@MiguelCabrera
to join them in throwing out today's first pitch.
Hindenburg actually won overwhelmingly but appointed Hitler in order to try and appease the fascists so congrats on being hilariously wrong that you accidentally made a great point.
@BrettKollmann
Also, acting like people touching your food is gross is hilarious. Someone touches your food with their bare hands every time you go out to eat at a restaurant lol
@jrusso91
@willmenaker
Ok cool how many of them worked for thousands of hours, beating out millions of other potential employees, then got hit in the head thousands of times and suffered permanent brain damage that kills them 25 years down the road?
Cade Cunningham splits before/after Bojan Bogdanovic returned from injury:
19 games- 22.3 pts-3.6 reb-7.1 ast-4.5 tov (51.4% TS, 31.5% USG)
8 games-22 pts-4.5 reb-7 ast-2.6 tov (57.2% TS, 27.7% USG)
Crazy what happens when you give him literally any spacing at all
Jaden Ivey is now shooting 42% from three on 5.2 attempts per game since becoming the full-time starter.
That’s a 25 game stretch where he’s averaging 18.8 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists with 47/42/67% splits from the field.
Cade Cunningham
Jaden Ivey
Simone Fontecchio?
Tobias Harris
Jalen Duren
Marcus Sasser
Tim Hardaway Jr
Ron Holland
Ausar Thompson
Isaiah Stewart
Bobi Klintman
@willmenaker
Will, what is the exact amount of money someone is allowed to spend on a house and still call themselves a socialist? Thanks, I'll hang up and listen
Detroit Pistons with Isaiah Stewart on the floor: +17 points per 100 possessions
Detroit Pistons with Isaiah Stewart off the floor: -11 points per 100 possessions
@jrusso91
@willmenaker
I never said it was, I simply agreed that being an NFL player is way more dangerous and difficult than being a cop, which is obviously true if you think about it for literally three seconds.
I get why some people don’t like the Ron Holland pick, but he’s the player I can most easily see teams kicking themselves for not taking first overall in a few years. Obviously the jumper needs work, but his upside is the highest of anyone in this class imo
@surplusvalmeal
@willmenaker
People liking your tweet without liking mine first is gross and unprincipled behavior unbecoming of so-called "socialists"
Cade Cunningham's efficiency has started to stabilize since a rough early start to the season.
His 12 games- 21.3 pts, 7.3 assists, 5 turnovers on 40.2/29.7/87.5% shooting.
His last 11 games- 22.8 pts, 7.3 assists, 3.5 turnovers on 45.2/38.1/90.7% from the floor
Players on this team are TERRIFIED of doing anything wrong because they know Monty will sit them down on the bench. So all they keep doing is feeding Cade possession after possession because he’s the only one with an actual green light to do what he wants out there.
I think it’s important to note the Pistons have gone from perhaps the worst forward situation in the league to a fairly solid rotation of vets and high-upside young guys. I’ll say it till I’m blue in the face, that’s where you win games in the NBA
@jrusso91
@willmenaker
Also, “dangerous” does not equal “deadly,” which again you would realize if again, you thought about it for more than two seconds.
@jameelajamil
@g4ys0n
This is exactly what OP is talking about. Are you gonna pay for her therapy? Because if you think eating healthy food is expensive wait until you see what therapists cost.
Sending picks to dump Bagley would be a lot more palatable if Troy hadn’t sent picks to acquire him, and ALSO bid against himself to overpay him in the first place
Detroit gets off the Bagley II contract at the expense of 2 seconds.
He has a $12.5M salary next season.
Livers ($1.8M), Gallinari ($6.8M) and Muscala ($3.5M) are in the last year of their contract.
@DuncanSmithNBA
First week at college, I’m playing pickup in the gym. I am TERRIBLE at basketball, but only I know that, so the first touch I get, I pull up from damn near half court. Drain it. Everyone starts calling me Jimmer, until I play a few games and they realize it was just a lucky shot.
All bias aside, the best fit for Wemby IS Detroit. Cade and Ivey both perfect guards and Duren/Stewart are both fantastic compliments his game. Think it would be the best situation for him in terms of expectations and positional versatility.
The Pistons salary for this year is $137.5 million. Joe Harris, James Wiseman, Monte Morris and Dewayne Dedmon are getting paid $44.5 million this year. That’s 32% of their entire salary. In 2019, Blake Griffin was paid $31.9 million. That was 25% of the Pistons entire salary
No one’s interested in the eternal promise of making a big move, so I won’t go there. I’ll just say they’ve been bit hard by overspending in the past and are reluctant to make that mistake again. They’re not making a big swing unless they’re very certain it’ll work
There’s no way people are actually acting like Grimes had some amazing trade value that went unrealized here. He was a speculative add at best in the first place. Guy had a very good 45 game stretch or so two years ago, that’s it.
Detroit fans will lower Cade into the ground like the Undertaker after one Summer League game but still sell out Ford Field every week. Thank you for constantly reminding me why I moved 600 miles away from you weirdos!
Fire everyone. Someone. ANYONE. Put Tom Gores in Guantanamo Bay. Fire Troy Weaver into space. Make Monty Williams explore the Titanic in a homemade submarine. I don’t care anymore.
Insane to me that people still are going on about Cade's playmaking...since Ivey entered the starting lineup he has a 37.2 assist percentage (would rank 5th in the NBA this year) and a turnover percentage of 13.3% (45th this season). TS% nearly at 60% too. Fantastic efficiency.
The entire core of the Pistons rebuild is built on guys who either can’t shoot at all, or haven’t shot well thus far and we’re hoping they one day learn how to shoot.
@SeanRMoorhead
@RegressiveElf
@JeremyMonjo
That’s why the best Wonder Woman comics are the ones where she goes around beating the shit out of people and killing them with zero remorse while Batman and Superman look at each other uncomfortably
This is basically 90% of Troy weaver’s tenure. Very few outright disastrous moves in a vacuum (outside of Killian>Hali) but when you put everything together none of it makes sense
(The Bey for Wiseman trade remains one of the low-key wildest deals I can remember in a while. It’s not like a catastrophic deal or anything, but there was legitimately no logic to it at the time.)
@DragonflyJonez
Best line is him opening with the “it’s like comparing you to D Wade” because you know Pierce thinks he’s on the same level as Wade and that’s gonna eat him up inside
I’ve said it since the off-season, the issue with having a starting lineup that includes Killian Hayes and Isaiah Stewart isn’t their three point percentage, it’s the lack of volume. Can’t run them and Ausar AND Duren out there and expect to have any spacing for Cade.
Paolo shot worse than Cade on twos, threes AND free throws. Unless there’s a 4th shot I’m not aware of, it’s extremely weird that Cade got knocked for “poor efficiency” while Paolo didn’t.