It seems James Wiseman is about to be a key cog in the Detroit Pistons’ rebuilding machine. The team’s beatwriters, James Edwards III of TheAthletic and Omari Sankofa of the Detroit Free Press wrote that how many minutes Wiseman can go “is on him” and “dictated by his conditioning” (see below), per head coach Dwane Casey. And then starting center Jalen Duren sprained his ankle … [Read more...] about James Wiseman’s “clean opportunity”; DubNation’s farewell
Myers on buyout market: “We hope that we have enough”
The embedded video above of Bob Myers from his delayed presser — which finally happened at morning shootaround after the Golden State Warriors last night chose to keep Gary Payton II — is clickable. Notes and quotes from the interview are below. I’ll add the notes, quotes and video from the loss to the LA Lakers the other night in the next post.As for the buyout market, we … [Read more...] about Myers on buyout market: “We hope that we have enough”
Kerr: defensive “shell was compromised constantly”
I’ll do some coverage of the Gary Payton II failed physical — and what DubNation thinks, whether Bob Myers should keep “GP2” or rescind the trade and bring back James Wiseman — shortly after this post, but we also need to catch up on the notes and quotes from the past two games, which is the purpose of this one.Interrupted by the trade deadline, which was the previous post, … [Read more...] about Kerr: defensive “shell was compromised constantly”
DubNation says keep Gary Payton II
The latest intel has the Golden State Warriors deadline for deciding on the Gary Payton II trade set for tomorrow, Sunday, 72 hours after the trade call (see all details below). We went live on YouTube last night to discuss. It was obviously a hot topic. But in the end, our livestream poll with about 500 votes ended with 79% wanting GP2 to remain a Warrior to 21% wanting to get … [Read more...] about DubNation says keep Gary Payton II
Trade deadline: Lacob mandate of “does it make us better?” should work in reverse too (fyi works for Bojan Bogdanovic)
In this post and with the February 9th trade deadline looming, we’ll go through all the relevant notes and quotes over the last month. My sometimes-livestream-co-host Dean “of Positivity” Chambers also came up with a brilliant trade scenario (spoiler alert: Bojan Bogdanovic), but first, let’s address the elephant in the room which is the idea that James Wiseman’s salary would … [Read more...] about Trade deadline: Lacob mandate of “does it make us better?” should work in reverse too (fyi works for Bojan Bogdanovic)