What are the Pistons doing

I wonder sometimes if Joe Dumars really knows what he’s doing. I watched the draft, which pretty much went according to plan. That is until the trades started to happen. J Rich is now a Bobcat courtesy of MJ and Ray Allen is back on the east coast where he played his college years at.

The Pistons didn’t appear to do anything dramatic to help themselves get better in the draft. It seems the entire eastern conference got better over night…maybe not good enough to better an increasingly better west, we shall see. We have some weaknesses that need to be addressed. The coaching sucks and I now see why Flip Saunder never won with the T-wolves. The Pistons were a defensive juggernaut who would hold teams with machine-like ease. We were never a scoring team, however our scoring margin was always pretty decent.

I know the team is based on the extreme team philosophy but that worked when the east was a lot weaker and the Pistons had the ability to shutdown any team they wanted. I watched Lebron look like the second coming of MJ, but if you took a closer look it revealed that their was a high dependency on Big Ben. One could easily see that they were not on the same page. Chauncey Billups rarely let anyone go by him, now he worries about saving energy for offense. Tayshaun looks like an average defender, so I guess that means Paul Pierce and a host of other superstars were right. Rip never was a defensive factor unless he was chasing Allen Iverson around. And Rasheed can’t stay in the game (and he is by far the best defender on the team).

Joe D had been luck (more like bailed out) to have player drop in his lap because he has totally dropped the ball in drafting talent. Could you imagine if we got Chris Bosh, D. Wade, or better yet Mello who wanted to be here. I guess we shall see what might happen.