Nice score lurker. I wouldn't mind the Greg Oden consolation prize in that draft being a 7'3" shotblocker for Detroit.

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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."

are there any coaches in that deep 2007 draft??

Can we trade a pick? Do we have anything of value to package with that pick?

I see a problem: the preponderance of youth...a.k.a. low draft picks. Delfino is behind the learning curve at this point. J-max's situation doesn't look all that good this year. Amir is not ready. Acker and Blalock are interesting stories but are still long-shots as contributors. Add to that the two picks. One will be in the teens, the other in the 20's.
As much as I like Acker (and blalock) I would really prefer a #11 pick over a #60 D-league regular. If we don't play our prospects, and with the addition of Flip, it becomes more likely that we won't, we will end up with too many players fighting for that last roster spot and we would STILL have to bring in a guy to be the 1st option off the bench.

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We can trade the Orlando pick, not our own.

You cannot trade your own first round pick in consecutive years. We traded our 2006 pick for Carlos Arroyo.

The pick trade rule is partially due to former Cleveland Cavalier's owner Ted Stepien who traded away all of his picks (along with several horrible, Dick Vital-esque trades) completely destroying his franchise.

In the old days, you could do crazy stuff like trade 3 first round picks and 6 players for one player.

Rumour has it that former Pistons GM Jack "The Trader" McCloskey once offered the Lakers the ENTIRE Pistons team for Magic Johnson.

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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."

Sounds like the Mike Ditka trade for the rights to Ricky Williams when he was with New Orleans.

Or the Eric Lindros trade to Philly.

Whoa there, big guy. It's consecutive future years. What happened last year is completely irrelevant to the rule. You can trade away every single first round pick your team ever gets as long as you wait until the draft is over to trade away the next year's pick.

Detroit can trade away both the Orlando pick and our pick in the upcoming draft.

I re-read past the Stepien Rule and stand corrected. We can trade both of our picks this year.

http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#71

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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."

Don't feel too bad, I thought it was the same way even before you said anything.

Even after re-reading that link, it could easily be missed.

I'm happy Hobbs corrected me. No sense in spreading false info.

What I did wrong was read the first part that says consecutive years and not further that explains the workaround. Should have known better.

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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."

Here is a look at the top 40 prospects going into next year's draft according to Proffesor Chad Ford. Obviously this thing will change quite a bit, but you can kind of pick out some players that may interest the Pistons and get a little idea of who may go where:

1. Greg Oden, C, 7-0, 245, Ohio State
2. Kevin Durant, SF, 6-10, 190, Texas
3. Joakim Noah, PF, 6-11, 230, Florida
4. Josh McRoberts, PF, 6-11, 230, Florida
5. Al Horford, PF, 6-9, 235, Florida
6. Thaddeus Young, SF, 6-8, 210, Georgia Tech
7. Brandan Wright, PF, 6-10, 210, North Carolina
8. Julian Wright, PF, 6-9, 220, Kansas
9. Tiago Splitter, PF, 7-0, 240, Brazil
10. Hasheem Thabeet, C, 7-3, 265, Connecticut
11. Jeff Green, SF, 6-8, 225, Georgetown
12. Spencer Hawes, C, 6-11, 230, Washington
13. Ronald Steele, PG, 6-2, 185, Alabama
14. Luc Richard Mba a Moute, SF, 6-7, 215, UCLA
15. Roy Hibbert, C, 7-2, 265, Georgetown
16. Corey Brewer, SG, 6-8, 185, Florida
17. Tyler Hansbrough, PF, 6-9, North Carolina
18. Ante Tomic, C, 7-2, 237, Croatia
19. Marcus Williams, SF, 6-7, 207, Arizona
20. Chase Budinger, SG, 6-7, 190, Arizona
21. Jianlian Yi, PF, 230, China
22. Javaris Crittenton, PG, 6-5, 180, Georgia Tech
23. Jermareo Davidson, PF, 6-10, 230, Alabama
24. Jason Smith, PF, 7-0, 230, Colorado State
25. Gerald Henderson, SG, 6-5, 205, Duke
26. Mario Chalmers, PG, 6-2, 170, Kansas
27. Brandon Rush, SG, 6-7, 205, Kansas
28. Glen Davis, PF, 6-9, 290, LSU
29. Trent Plaisted, C, 6-11, 245, BYU
30. Paul Harris, SG, 6-4, 220, Syracuse
31. Aaron Gray, C, 7-0, 270, Pittsburgh
32. Anton Ponkrashov, PG, 6-8, 214, Russia
33. Tywon Lawson, PG, 6-0, 190, North Carolina
34. Renaldas Seibutis, SG, 6-6, 180, Lithuania
35. Wayne Ellington, SG, 6-5, 175, North Carolina
36. Richard Roby, SG, 6-5, 210, Colorado
37. Malik Hairston, SG, 6-6, 200, Oregon
38. Dominic James, PG, 5-11, 175, Marquette
39. Uros Tripkovic, SG, 6-5, 190, Serbia
40. C.J. Giles, C, 6-10, 235, Kansas

Breakdown
PG - Six
SG - Ten
SF - Five
PF - Eleven
C - Eight
Plus there are eight players 7 feet or taller. So who jumps out on this list that the Pistons may have a decent shot at?