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How bad is good enough for Joe Dumars, the Pistons
The Pistons are about to take the floor at The Palace of Auburn Hills vs.
the Los Angeles Clippers with a 17-23 record. They have a 3-7 mark in their last 10 games. The Pistons did win their last outing Saturday at Washington. However, Friday night was an embarrassment as Trey Burke destroyed the Pistons as a member of the Utah Jazz at The Palace.
Burke, of course, was the national player of the year last season, while leading Michigan to the NCAA Championship Game for Michigan. Burke is playing very well for the Jazz. The Pistons bypassed him in the NBA Draft for shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope from Georgia. His performance has been, at best, spotty.
Yet, the Pistons are playing well enough currently that if the season ended right now, they'd be a seventh-seed in the Eastern Conference for the playoffs. The Pistons haven't made the playoffs since 2009.
If the Pistons have a similar record at the end of the season, and still make the playoffs only because the Eastern Conference is so bad, would it really be progress?
Personally, I'd see it as more of the same. Yeah, it's still a bit early to start defining drafts, but it was disturbing how Burke lit up the Pistons like a pinball machine Friday. You wonder why Josh Smith and Brandon Jennings haven't played more consistently proficient basketball.
And I said at the time Dumars passed on Burke for Caldwell-Pope that it was a gutsy pick, but that he better be right.
At this point, he looks horribly wrong.
THIS IS A REPLAY OF OUR LIVE CHAT TODAY ON THE SUPER BOWL MATCHUP, THE LIONS AND JIM CALDWELL, THE RED WINGS, PISTONS, BASEBALL REPLAY AND MICHIGAN VS. MSU
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| Trey Burke: Embarrassed the Pistons |
Burke, of course, was the national player of the year last season, while leading Michigan to the NCAA Championship Game for Michigan. Burke is playing very well for the Jazz. The Pistons bypassed him in the NBA Draft for shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope from Georgia. His performance has been, at best, spotty.
Yet, the Pistons are playing well enough currently that if the season ended right now, they'd be a seventh-seed in the Eastern Conference for the playoffs. The Pistons haven't made the playoffs since 2009.
If the Pistons have a similar record at the end of the season, and still make the playoffs only because the Eastern Conference is so bad, would it really be progress?
Personally, I'd see it as more of the same. Yeah, it's still a bit early to start defining drafts, but it was disturbing how Burke lit up the Pistons like a pinball machine Friday. You wonder why Josh Smith and Brandon Jennings haven't played more consistently proficient basketball.
And I said at the time Dumars passed on Burke for Caldwell-Pope that it was a gutsy pick, but that he better be right.
At this point, he looks horribly wrong.
THIS IS A REPLAY OF OUR LIVE CHAT TODAY ON THE SUPER BOWL MATCHUP, THE LIONS AND JIM CALDWELL, THE RED WINGS, PISTONS, BASEBALL REPLAY AND MICHIGAN VS. MSU
posted by Pat Caputo at
12:48 PM
1 Comments:
In your written column today, you said mentioning Richard Sherman and Muhammed Ali in the same sentence was an insult to history. But you're the very one that did all the comparing. So who is doing the insulting indeed?
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