Larry Hughes...

[AI-square]

Damien Jones sounds the best bet for Detroit at this point, although he'd have to be a bench player. Imagine having him to drop some 3-point bombs once in a while.

[Wallace ²]

What was the last ~26 year old unrestricted FA that took fully a third less money to sign an MLE contract with a contender?

Manu

[theMUHMEshow]

1270 AM is FULL of RUMORS.........

No way would we trade ANY of our starters...

Perhaps he would want a chance to play w/ a contender.....but I doubt it. He just had a career year. It's his time to get paid. Lots of teams with money will be sure to go after him. Not to mention the Wizards are going to go strong after him aswell. For him to choose to be a bench player and get less minutes and less than his share of the money, would be foolish....IMO. I would love to see him here. He's a stud. But I seriously doubt we will see him in Detroit.

More likely, is:
Jalen who is from the area, and has stated that he'd love to be a Piston.
Houston, who is still very close to Joe D, and Hunter...and his wife is from here. He too has stated the Detroit is his first choice.
Finley, No ties to the area or club, but would be an ideal bench scorer for us
D Jones, who once was a Piston. He's good friends w/ Chauncey. He's a known quan y for us. No guessing games. We know EXACTLY what he would bring us.

I wouldnt be so sure about NOT trading one of our starters. I am sure you never thought that we would drop Carlisle after back to back 50 win seasons or dump Stackhouse after the best year of his life.

Facts are facts...we were ONE RIB from not even getting the the NBA Finals. If Miami was healthy they could make a case for beating us and San Antonio. And , an Indiana team took us to the max last year with JO being hurt and gave us a run this year with a half ass team.

The Pistons have made it to back to back finals and after winning one last year that is great.

HOWEVER!

Do you see what is going on in the league? IT IS CHANGING! NOT STAYING THE SAME! The calls, are changing, we cannot play the same style and expect to win year in and year out. We need to adapt to what the league is doing and continue to get better. What team stays the same year in and year out? The Bulls always added parts, even to their starting lineup to keep up with the changes. You dont think that the league might be starting to figure us out? Look at what we did in the NBA Finals? Look at our scoring droughts ALL SEASON LONG! this team needs some new parts. We need to be able to score other then on ONE DAMN CURL PLAY WITH OUR 2GUARD!

Indy is very very hungry especially after us knocking them out the past 2 years, and the whole brawl incident. Plus they are coming back with a better team then last year.

Miami, an older Shaq yes, BUT A YEAR OLDER WADE!

We need to make another move. What we have this year did not get us a ring, meaning this is not going to work to win a ring next year. Sheed is older and McDyess is getting older...

All you other Detroit fans can get stuck on your favorite Piston and get in your LA LA land that everything is great and peachy and THEY WOULD NEVER GET RID OF THIS GUY. Dont be suprised. JOE WANTS TO WIN NOT BE A RUNNER UP

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Manu

Ehhhhhhhh, wrong.

He didn't take less. The only team to even think about coming with an offer was Detroit and we made it perfectly clear we would outbid anyone for him, so no one bothered.

Slight difference between that and a situation where you've got 4 teams with over 16 million in cap room looking for guards.

[Banks91]

are u pistons fans in such disarray that u are hopin for a player like Hughes to fall into ur lap for the MLE

For players this is how it goes, get rich first, if u havent won by the time ur big contract is done ,then u think about winnin over money

hughes is relatively young, hasnt had a rich contract yet, so there is no way in he
will be already in desperation mode like Malone and payton

He isnt comin detroit, and u will not win the championship again as long as manu,tony, and tim are together

[sickdsm]

Hughes agrees to a deal with cleveland, did he not?

[theMUHMEshow]

Wow...Cleveland getting Hughes...that makes the central division a little intresting?

Indiana
Detroit
Cleveland

I think we now have the toughest division in basketball

[mavsfan1000]

Cleveland is still not at the level of Detroit or Indiana. They need a shot blocker and they could be there.

[theMUHMEshow]

Yeah, they are not yet...but you have to look at the fact they still have some money left I think...

Honestly...I dont think Detroit or Miami is at the level of Indiana when Indy is 100% healthy

[Horry For 3!]

He got a deal with the Cavs 5 years/65 mil. That is a damn good amount.