PISTONS: From the Sidelines

Someone finally in the Pistons Org. admits we weren't going to be in contention.

So say we all!!

for success you need to step back first, to create room for success...

Yeah, because success can't push back on failure.

I swear, it's become almost impossible to read anything produced in the media these days because it relies on misdirection and assuming the reader is dumber than a rock.

How long have we been hearing this for?

That's all I read.

I would hold on guys. There has been a very significant change with the passing of Bill Davidson and the new ownership. I don't know what to expect from Karen Davidson but it will be something different. Maybe she has a different vision for the team. Maybe she will hold Dumars more accountable for his actions. Who knows at this point.

I think Dumars is doing a fine job. We all make mistakes. I just don't like being told those gaffes were really strokes of genius.

He started out so well and seems to have become just another GM since 05.

I am willing to give him a chance and see what he can do over the next 2 years. The situation is demanded action so hopefully he can get the team back into contention.

He has been willing to become satisfied with his coaches supplying wins. It's a very comfortable bed to feel old body contours. Instead of some needed tweaking and incremental changes, he is now faced with significant problems and most have been mental this year. A factor many of us have pointed out for the last 2-3 years. He has very little options, even with the significant cap-space, since he doesn't have a perceptive enough coach to create a cohesive new unit that can mix and mix quickly.

One thing could change this (at least for getting high talent within one summer). With significant cap-space and a huge slippage of salary leverage within the league's players this year; you might gain leverage by accumulating an extra talent expansion by going over into luxury tax area. This will, in one stroke, fill-in the new talent additions. MrD would never allow this, but the new additions might have a different menu.

The key move for me is if JD keeps Curry for next year, if so then you are looking at least for a two-three year transition into .500 ball.