Still don't see why that should limit him in spotting Tay. Don't need to be a big scorer, just someone who can fill in the back up role. I think JMax can drop 10 points if given some consistent minutes.
They got to start him somewhere and he is a SF in height and PF in body. I think he'd do a better job guarding other SF than true PF who will have a distinct height advantage. Yeah, I know about his long arms.

Rasheed is a game changer...WHEN HE WANTS TO BE. Ever seen Batman Begins? It's not who you are it's what you do that defines you. I'm not asking Sheed to put up KG #'s, I just want him to be all that he can be. Play hard, work from the inside out, get high % shots. That's all I want from Sheed...consistancy. He has disappointed me time and time again.

Calling Sheed clutch is an insult to all the great clutch players. You only need one hand and five fingers to count the number of clutch performances he has had. Yeah he can hit the occasional 3pt, but when was the last time he had a double digit 4th quarter?


We are talking about replacing Ben and Sheed with KG and a smaller player do to lack of a true center. Our half court offense would be even better with KG and we wouldn't be playing 4 on 5 because Ben would be replaced with a compitant offensive player.


I keep bringing up Darko because I can. Venting is my right as a Piston fan.

Keep telling yourself Darko had little to do with Orlando's improved record. He had as much to do with their success as McDyess and Lindsey Hunter have to us if not more. He is only 21 by the way. We are on top of the hill starting down the trail. Darko is on the same trail heading up- it won't be long before we cross paths and he will be looking down on us. That's what makes me mad. We lost our chance to remain on the Hill. We can only hope that Orlando pick lands us something decent.

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ggazoo... i hear you. his fg% stinks, but with a better team that might change.

we need front court help either way. we need a banger down there however you slice it. Sheed is a 3 in a 4's body, in my opinion.

if we win tonight and Sunday then it's all a moot point. J-Max might be the wild card Post presence that we need anyhow.

I'm not married to my idea in any way. Just throwing it out there. But I can't see trading sheed for any 4 in the league. He's better.

I want to share a pet peeve.

The obsession with height.

Gheorghe Muresan 7' 7"
Chuck Nevitt 7' 5"

All-Stars? Icons? Champions?

For every tall player who excelled, there has been 2 small players who have done equally as well.

You would think Detroit fans would know that heart is bigger than height when our best player in franchise history was small.

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."

This whole thread is BS. This team deserves to get beaten and stopped before dismantling. You can flush this whole thread if we pull out this con. fin. I think it's gotten to rough for some of you. Can't deal will the fear of a couple elimination games.
Let's see how well they go to work tonite.

i agree with TFD. this thread is silly.

can we wait until detroit is knocked-out before we trade away the starters, please?

I know we are going to win tonight. That doesn't change anything. This team still isn't good enough to win a championship. They are just playing with you right now- you just can't see it.

If you don't like this thread Foff. Don't read it.

Yeah TFD! Fall in line with this thread's thinking, OR GET OUT! We don't want any logic or reason around these parts!

(For the record, I agree with Micro's assestment of trade proposals #1-6).

I've got 37,620,000 reasons why Rasheed won't be traded. That's 11,400,000 next year, 12.540,00 the following year, and 13,680,000 in 2008-09. Rasheed is being overpaid and I don't see anyone else (except possibly Isiah) wanting to overpay on the 3 years left of that contract.

Sheed's disappearance in meaningful playoff games doesn't help his street value either.

Very true Bill, but fortunately for Isiah, he won't have to worry about Sheed's playoff performance since the Knicks won't be there any time soon.