Da Wire: Your Right, Not 8th but 6th or 7th

THE REALIST WRITES:

Da Wire,


I guess I have to be the first one to say it since both of you are being quite silent on the real subject and that is Suck-troit Basketball. Let's proclaim right here and right now:

YOU WILL NOT LIKE VILLANUEVA!!!!!!

He plays soft, does not play defense, does not rebound as evidenced by his career 6.3 rebounds per game and he shoots WAY too many threes as his career 743 attempts explain. I like Ben Gordon even though he is a low percentage (career 43.7%) volume shooter that does not get other people involved( career 3 assists) but he makes clutch shots. I think Headband Charlie is a selfish player and now that he has the money, he will get worst as a player and he will bring the pistons down UNLESS they get a banger type true center who rebounds and defends above average to play alongside of him and let's face the facts and say that Chris Wilcox, Kwame Brown and a last leg Ben Wallace does not fit that mold. So, just like the Michigan Wolverines have the talent pool and found a way to mess it up (Rich Rodriquez), the Pistons had the money and signed a undersized "shoot too much" two guard and a weak power forward. With that being said, there will be no 8th spot in the east for the Pistons. Toronto replaces the Pistons my brothers.

 


JASON AKA "DA WIRE" DWYER RESPONDS:




Detroit still makes the playoffs. I would say that you are wrong about Villanueva if I remember right he had his career highs last year in Milwaukee. The league is going to big athletic guys who can shoot from deep and also can create off the dribble to create matchup problems (Orlando Magic). I think with Villanueva it will stretch the floor and allow the guards to get to the rim. We will run with three guards a lot. I think with Will Bynum, Rodney Stuckey and Ben Gordon’s ability to get to the rim, it will put a lot of opposing bigs in foul trouble.

I also think Kwame is a serviceable center. He is a big body and with Wallace there to mentor him he will only get better on the defensive side of the ball. Your right about the pistons not getting the 8th seed because they will get the 6th or 7th seed!!!!!!!!!!