Should Maxiell become the first F off the bench?

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Nope. JMax is earning his time and he is useful for different things. But Dyess has still got it.

maybe down the line, but not yet. he's getting the proper amount of time and experience in crunch time this season, but he has made a few mistakes here and there. he needs to, and will, keep learning.

although he's good at grabbing boards, he still has to learn how to better position himself, box out, and hang on. but what we're seeing so far is encouraging.

Assuming Dice finds a jump shot sometime soon, no way Max moves in front.

Not to contradict my vote, but JMax is currently leading the Pistons in production/min and Roland Rating.

The time that he has spent on the floor has been about as good as it gets.

I would say that you keep expanding his role and keep him in shape.


What happened to the monster dunks that he was throwing down during the pre-season though?

From what I have seen, the Pistons have not got their transition game going.

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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."

And from what I saw last night other teams are opting to not let him get the ball above his waist.

Emotionally I'm like Go Brahma, More Brahma, but logically I know that Dyess' experience makes him more of a solid contributor.
While we like what the Brahma does and get excited about what he can do eventually, right now his mental game is light years behind Dyess'. Defensively Max hasn't yet gotten comfortable with the schemes and rotations, not that Dyess is great at either one, Dyess just knows the game more. We can only hope that Max's desire to learn the game is just as hungry as his desire to play the game.

Let's not underestimate the devestating effect of getting in the bonus. JMax was a big part of that last night. The Pistons shot a ton of free throws and it kept them in the game in the 4th quarter. Since Jason is an average to poor free throw shooter, we need to put him in the beginnings of quarters to get us to the bonus. Once we are in, then put in the better FT shooters.

last night he chose to layup instead of monster dunk and he missed. i want jmax to go back to the dunk everything from the free throw line in attitude.

i think mcdyess always starts the year off slowly and then when that midrange j starts falling look out. he was missing plenty of easy shots against utah but i will say he was making good moves in the post. he's also rebounding very well and that tip dunk he had got me out of my seat.