Joe Dumars wastes no time and seems to be weighing no other options.
The AP is reporting
“Villanueva, the seventh overall pick by Toronto in 2006 who has played all three of his NBA season with the Milwaukee Bucks, also agreed to a five-year deal. His contract is worth at least $35 million.”
UPDATE: Pistons.com has it as front page news now.
David Aldridge weighs in at NBA.com.
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man i forgot about Stoudemire but theres rumors that Golden State has him locked up so dont count on that one & Boozers going back to the jazz.
To all the naysayers: DON’T BE SO DISCOURAGED SO EARLY! I remember when Joe made the trade for Rip. Everybody (including myself) was blowing up! Why would they trade their only star talent (Jerry Stackhouse) for an underachieving role player from Washington? Look how well that turned out. Grant Hill for Ben Wallace and cash? Who got the better end of that deal? Paying millions for a point guard who’s only accomplishment in the NBA was ONE good first round playoff performance? (Chauncey)
C’mon. We have a great GM. Start giving the guy some slack. He’s earned it. Let’s see what happens on the court before we start judging. This had to happen sometime.
And, hey… he fired Curry, didn’t he?
nah man Gordons defintely worth the bucks were paying him & when hes in the playoffs hes all game, we saw that this year, beautiful move Joe D
oh thats no doubt man rips gone
yeah Jasons right i dont kno what the hell ur talkin about
I am glad I’m not the only one with this logic. Everything we are doing makes perfect sense given our situation. We can either watch Rip, Tay, Sheed, Dyess, and Chauncey if he were still around for another three years — see them get older and their talent decline, or we can get something in return while they are still valuable and watch the future be set-up.
Why aren’t more people thankful for having a proactive GM who knows when he has to make moves? It is almost unfair. Joe is making chess moves… and he is doing a damn good job of it.
omg they didnt sign BG to a 5 yr/55 million deal to bring him off the bench, no way in hell man
haha cmon man have faith
man im likin that
nope rips gettin traded
ur retarded no one saw billups leavin but he did
Joe-D will completely dismantle this team for a banner, dont count on rip bein there for the whole season
we can only pray yoeye, we can only pray to god!
wow that would be awesome that guys a double-double machine
r u stupid?
Joe D would get rid of him so quick, watch some basketball before you start actin like you know everything k?
god damn you need to tell every one of these dumbass fans that because you just said that perfectly, its time to rebuild dumbasses i love rip & co. but the past is the past
Hah, one of his top 10 career plays was on Darko in a Pistons jersey and another 2 were from when he was in college. Awesome.
no sense in shoulda, coulda, woulda beening though. Don’t know enough about these two players to be freaking out myself. I did see Ben Gordon do some things I liked last year and I do have a bit of a soft spot for CV for non-basketball related reasons. I do like that they are not big namers though as that’s what made me a Pistons fan in the first place, playing team ball instead of being a support system for one superstar. So I figure give these guys a chance and see what a better coach can do with them all next season.
Pistons still are not a championship team yet, I think, but they are definitely a team on the up now. Hopefully we can keep McDyess and then have a lineup that looks like this(backups in parentheses):
PG:Rodney Stuckey(Will Bynum)
SG:Richard Hamilton (Ben Gordon)
SF:Tayshaun Prince (Austin Daye)
PF:Charlie Villanueva (Jason Maxiell)
C: Kwame Brown (Antonio McDyess)
Plus great role players in:
Arron Afflalo
DaJuan Summers
Jonas Jerebko
Deron Washington
And hopefully get a big man from the summer league roster.
Pretty confident with that lineup, but we’re still a bit short up front unfortunately.
but really though they technically made the play offs it really wasn’t at all like they were actually in them…so they may as well not have gone in the first place….thus it can’t get that much worse other than coming in dead freaking last in the league.
now lets trade for okafor…
Tru dat! LMFAO
and that’s why there is reason to believe RIP will be traded…
Give me a damn break with this PG shit…seriously, we’ll be fine with Stuck at PG the guy only plays a yr and a half and people like you are all over him… last time i checked Chauncey wasn’t a PG at first either (people always said he was a combo guard in his first years in the league)
Deron Washington?
Really?
Is he going to making the squad this season?
I hadn’t heard any intimations.
defenaively it just makes more sense, I still think Kaman would be nice for low post scoring, I guess you can’t get everything out of today’s centers like you used to with say… david robinson or hakeem olajuwon or ewing…
agreed or even the summer for that matter…
Doubt it…don’t get ur hopes up for that one. I’ve been hopin from last year, but i don’t think so and they def wouldn’t do it just for rip…
I’ve been watchin bball for 20 yrs, so IMO I think RIP is def. expendable… He had a bad attitude last yr and that will def play a role in the trading of him… it seems when he doesn’t get his way bad things happen on our team. Remember Joe wants good character guys, not people who are drama queens
Agreed he can def be at times
WOW you couldn’t be anymore wrong, i’m not even gonna comment on such a dumb statement…
yeah and essentially you would have to give it all up for him believe me, the Hornets giving him up would be almost the same as the cavs giving up LBJ or lakers giving up KB24, not happenin
PERFECTLY STATED THANK YOU! This is what I’ve been trying to get at…
I know i am!
nah not anymore, GSW doesn’t wanna give up Curry and that’s what PHX wants… Boozer didn’t opt out but that doesn’t mean that there couldn’t be a trade in place still
yes they did
richie i’m totally with you, and I always feel a certain pride when I see my team put that effort into defense.
That’s the roster I’m hoping for.
Possible backup for Tay. Plays good defense and has some athleticism.
Tay’s backup will more likely be Daye and/or Summers with RIP playing minutes at SF if he doesn’t get traded first. I haven’t heard enough about Deron Washington to make a judgement just yet, but we will see. I have heard he has made an improvement and has boasted impressive #’s in Israel so you never know. we will find out more once the summer league begins
I don’t think McDyess is the answer. Now I love him just as much as the next guy, as he’s one of my favorite players of all time, but I think he’s just a bit too small for a backup center, especially if he’d have to guard Shaq/Dwight. I think we either need to trade Rip for a new starter (i.e. Tyson Chandler), or pick up a big veteran center in free agency. I think Rasho Nesterovic would help clog the middle and could probably be had pretty cheaply. Oh well, only time can tell.
When they’re all 36 years old in a few years you’re not going to win any ‘ships with that richie.
no they said that 1st when stack left the sixers
I don’t know how easy it will be to trade Rip with his huge contract. Most trades these days are conducted under the premise of shedding salary in the near future. It looks like Tayshaun is a candidate to leave for a solid big man.
As much as it pains me to type that I have to consider it.
He is the most underrated player in the league and no one wants him to go.
That means Rip is our starting SF? Uh-oh. He will get dominated by the beast SFs in the East (Turkoglu, James, Pierce, Iguodala)
I don’t get the Ben Gordon move at all. We already had one of the best back courts in the league.
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
It can all be justified with Rip leaving in a trade, but that looks like a long-shot.
Ben spreads the floor as a player who can drain the 3, Rip and Tay can only spot up for 3s when left alone and Stuck Stuck has not incorporated the 3 as part of his regular arsenal.
I really think Ben compliments our backcourt and will bring the FIREPOWER. I’ve heard the “11 mil for a bench player?” argument, but who cares where he comes from if he is playing starter minutes anyway?
I’m not feeling Stuck Stuck as a nickname
both hands raised, bye rip it was fun
thats right richie a fan is a fan , u know y? because we all are a PISTONS fan!!! go pistons
no amare he is on the way down, my dad is a avid suns fan ive seen a lot of suns games. amare still puts up good numbers right now but his knees are giving out and he has bad eyes, torn retina and some other stupid eye injury 2 years ago.hes always hurt, we need kamaan or chandler
mantelpiece? wtf? i think hes starting to collect dust , time to uhhhhh….. get rid of him
uhhhh…… u just did idiot
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