I'm interested to see what he can do with Monroe and Drummond next to him. On paper, it looks like it could work. Smith is overrated, of course, but he's still a pretty solid defensive presence.
Tbh it's really hard to tell who's a worse manager, Dumars or Melanie Sloan (my goddess's manager). Both seem to know a lot about their professions but they're more like living books. Might be good assistants next to the real managers but would never be good managers themselves.
I actually like the Smith signing for Detroit. The Pistons need to spend money and Smith is a good player. He chucks a little too much, but he is a great defender and rebounder and can be good on offense if he limits the outside shooting. He is a step up from their existing garbage roster and the contract is not completely insane. They could have done a lot worse.
franchise players get paid +15m...
smith ie neither...
good signing imho, considering who they drafted and considering they have knight at pg, the fit seems good. Add a lot of rebounding and shot blocking to a shooting backcourt, seems ok to me as an idea. They will a lot of problems with ballhandling though.
It's not the popular opinion, but I like the signing for Detroit.
From a money standpoint, what's the alternative? Should they make a "smart" move and continue making deals to free up cap space? They have money to spend, why sit on it if they arent planning to tank? At the very least, they got a known quan y in Smith.
From a x's and o's standpoint, their size will instantly make them a unique matchup in the East. At SF Josh Smith is free to defend LeBron, Paul George, etc. It doesn't make them a legit contender, but it allows them to compete.
They've been so ty for years now. If nothing else, this move shows the fans that the front office is trying to win games.
I do take Jam's opinion on DET with a grain of salt. He's really a Laker fan IMO (which means a Kobe fan) and he even defended the Ben Gordon/Charlie V signings too when I argued with him about that.
Interesting take. I have never hidden or denied the fact that I like the Lakers or Kobe, so not sure why you even bring that up. But if it's between the Pistons and the Lakers, I'm always and will always be a Pistons fan first. The last few years, it's been pretty easy to focus on the Lakers since the Pistons have been so bad.
I have no recollection of our conversation about the Gordon/Charlie signings, so I'd be interested as to what I said. I am hesitant to believe I would have defended the Ben Gordon signing because I remember specifically that I posted I hated it on the pistons messageboards. I don't remember what I said on here. The only way I would have defended it is by saying that it would make some sense if they were able to also trade Rip Hamilton. But at the time, I did not like the Gordon signing. I have no idea why I defended it.
However, to this day, I don't think the Charlie Villanueva signing was bad in theory and context. They signed him to the equivalent of a little more than the MLE. He made about $7.5M per year over the life of the contract. Charlie is horrible. And he's overpaid. But a contract that is worth a little more than the MLE is not a back-breaking contract, and that summer they lost Rasheed Wallace and Antonio McDyess, and only had Kwame Brown and Jason Maxiell at the power positions. They needed to fill the frontcourt with some scoring. I'm not saying it was a great move or Charlie was worth that contract. But I have less of a problem with that signing than with the Gordon signing.
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