Detroit has a nice future. Jackson / Jennings (when he returns) / Dinwiddie KCP / Meeks Stanley Johnson Illyasova Drummond
i don't see it. I try to be nice to Detroit fans because we robbed them off most of their last two years talent (could be 3/5 of starting lineup :grin: ) thanx to Dumars..but this team is not good. I dont see potential. Reggie : can't shoot can't defend. Jennigs :bad workethic Doubt he will come back from achilles Kcp : so far looks like a roleplayer at best. Still young tho Stanley Johnson...no idea how they picked him over winslow or turner..I never liked him as a prospect so I don't have high expectations but we will see Ily: he's not even young. At least have to pay only one more year before you can find another turkish strech four :grin: Drummond:...hasn't shown much improvement. His defence is still bad and his post moves are nonexistent. He needs to get some type of skills beyond being the ultimate garbage man to become the true franchise player of Detroit. btw I really hope Detroit ball makes a comeback and gets strong again.
Once they traded J Smooth, Jennings was putting up ridiculous numbers, and the Pistons went on a tear, won 12 of 16 games. Stanley Johnson in his first two summer league games has put up 20 points, I think he may be better than advertised. KCP had flashes last year of being a pretty good NBA player. Illyasova is a nice stretch four to pair alongside Drummond.
Jennings most likely never comes back. It's a achilles he relies on speed and he has very questionable work ethic. (though I wish him to comeback ofc). Stanley Johnson I haven't watched in sl only saw him before the draft etc. Still think they should have picked winslow .But we will know in a couple of years. Lol at ily. :grin: you know he's 31 right? And one game he can shoot lights out and the next 5 can't hit the wide side of a barn. But good luck to him too.
No, not at all. There are a number of people in this thread who don't know his work there, but then there are others who realize it was a really small sample size... not even 30 games as a starter there, right? It's just a lot of money for a brief period of brilliance. BUT they know him pretty well now (off court, etc.) I'll also say he could have been hidden by Westbrook in OKC. Maybe he was always better than we knew.
Agreed. I think the encouraging thing that a lot of people here don't realize is that after he got over the jitters, his last 20 or so games were phenomenal with Detroit. His shooting percentages went up (both 2's and 3's), his assists numbers were way way up and he was just overall awesome. I was hoping we'd steal him but not for that kind of money.
I think Johnson looks like an Artest type. He looks good in SL on a very tiny sample size. (But so did Dante Exum)
Reggie improved his A/TO and his 3pt shooting, up to a still below average 34%. He might be a little better than Bev ($6 m/yr) or Cory Joseph ($7m/yr). But for $16m/yr, he is turrible.
I don't what's going on but it looks like 16 mil is the new 6 mil based on the future cap projections. Atleast, that's what some GM's think. Desperation is a stinky Cologne!
I guess I don't follow the league as closely as I used to. The only Reggie Jackson I know is the backup. I didn't know some young stud with the same name but worth $80m had also entered the league. Maybe he is that good and he's finally unlocking his potential in Detroit. But, this should have been Detroit's opportunity to get a good player on a value contract. Because he hasn't had enough time to establish a track record on that level. They probably could have gotten him on a better contract, and then wouldn't have to pay full value until next time. They should have waited for him to get an offer for them to match. I get the impression that Detroit and/or SVG are paying all sorts of distress costs. Because the team isn't great and the city isn't attractive to players, they get a bit too desperate to pick up players. They reach too much on players, and they overpay to make sure deals get done -- and then they sign contracts that are too long for these players that they've reach and overpaid on. If you're going to gamble on Reggie Jackson after 25 good games, why do it on a 5-year deal? Why not a 3-year deal? Is there even a team option on this contract?
Morey would never have signed Jackson outright. He would have let him go on the market proclaiming the Rox will match any offer on the table for him. Let the Kings sign him for 60M and then drop him like a hot potato. SVG is the President for crying out loud, use some business sense.
Well, Morey did just re-sign Beverley without making him go to the market, which is probably at least partly because of the impending cap explosion and the resulting crazy free agency market. But, I do agree that Morey wouldn't have agreed to an $80m contract before the moratorium was even over without another suitor to compete with.
This is the basic problem with having a coach run the front office. There is no good cop / bad cop. SVG the coach is trying to develop Reggie. But SVG the GM should be telling Reggie, "If you don't perform we have a D leaguer who is going to kick your ass."
Last season, RJ hid himself to force a trade. WB had nothing to do with it. There was a behavior change from prior years. His agent is a bigger star than RJ.
