As a Spurs fan, you should know Pistons fan would rather the Pistons be under the radar than be a favorite by any "expert" opinion. The front runner position doesn't work well for the Pistons. The two times the Pistons went to the NBA Finals in recent years with this core group, they didn't even have homecourt advantage in the ECF. The two times they did have homecourt, they lost in the ECF. Plus, I don't take the vast majority of Hollinger's statistical formulaic analysis seriously. I'll take the opinion of a guy who watches the games over stats crunchers anyday.
Don't disagree with any of that. Even a diminished Jason Kidd is better than Jose Calderon. And, I wasn't arguing that Calderon should be an all star. But, I do think Calderon has played great this year.Calderon is a pretty damn good player and Kidd has been overrated for years but that said, every NBA GM would take Kidd over Calderon with all things being equal. Right now, Calderon has a tiny contract and Kidd has an albatross of a contract ... and Kidd could probably still fetch more in a trade.