Everyone is clamoring for the Pistons to make some sort of offseason move. The first real news is that Joe Dumars is considering adding Tracy McGrady to the roster.
Via MLive:
“Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars said late Saturday that the team is considering signing free agent Tracy McGrady.
“We’re checking it out,” Dumars said via text message. “We’re discussing it over the weekend.”
I’m not a fan of McGrady, but if the Pistons can sign him to a one year deal a the veterans minimum it’s a win for Detroit. You get a big name at a bargain price adding some value on the roster and putting bodies in the seats at the Palace.
Will he put us in playoff contention? No
Will his attitude change (he has playing time issues)? Not likely.
Why the move exactly? I don’t know.
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daddy one of the reasons we have had such a difficulty with AI is not that AI is bad, he’s a good player but that we have a giant pileup at shooting guard. If we had traded Rip before acquiring AI, our team would have been better. Or if we had never acquired AI we would have been better. Or if we didn’t have AI AND didnt have Rip we would have been better because then Stuckey would have been able to play shooting guard all night, and we could have rotated Chucky & Bynum at point.
Sometimes a team gets better with less players. When you obtain players and they are good enough to play in the NBA and you only give them 15 minutes a night they will not be happy, they won’t play at their highest level, and it’s impossible to get into playoff conditioning with only 15 minutes a night.
Adding tracy mcgrady will hurt this team even if he played for free
Just checked out ESPN and heard we have T-Mac for a 1-Year agreement
True Blue Pistons for more official words right here: http://www.nba.com/pistons/features/truebluepistons_100810.html
Alright…If we do sign this guy….then please trade Hamilton, not Prince. With Hamilton gone Gordon can start SG and he’ll have a solid backup with T-mac. Prince, Daye, and Summers can be at SF. Stuckey and Bynum at PG, then Charlie, Wilcox, Jerebko, and Maxiell at PF, and Big Ben and Monroe, and the “big guy” we’ll get in the trade for Hamilton
I think this would workout and put us in a playoff contending team…
I can’t say no to McGrady for the vet minimum. I do believe however that this will likely be his least productive season, and he’ll probably play off the bench and 15 minutes a night if that. He won’t be another AI because I’m sure he knows his time is ending.
Bring here Isaiah Thomas to play PG and Bill Laimbeer to play C
good luck to t-mac thats all i can say
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