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  • #44445
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    Hi its Ben
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    Tonight he has 22 points 8 rebounds 1 block and 1 steal on 8/10 shooting and 6/9 (surprising right?) from the free throw line. About time they started playing him more seeing that Detroit isn’t going anywhere this year. Exciting to see. Hopefully it isn’t all dunks, I havent seen any of the game.

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  • #727213
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     dude should be starting to me.

     

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  • #727232
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    jwostrum
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    i said he would start to play good all along and people thought i was nuts. i guess im nots so nuts now. this kid wants to be great. he just needed to learn from someone with a good offence. he came to uconn 2 weeks before the season started. how is he gonna learn a playbook that quick? and he did not start at uconn, oriaki did and he is not exactly a great post player to learn from. the best is yet to come with drummond. new breed of center, and in a few years i think he will be the best center in the game.

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  • #727247
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    So many people are so mad he’s playing well because he was the easiest target to call a bust in the draft. 

    Guess What?

    It’s not gonna happen!  Andre Drummond is to big and physically gifted to not make an impact in this league.  He’s nothing like Kwame, he’s longer, and more athletic then Kwame plus he got great hands which was always Kwame’s biggest weakness. 

    Drummond’s game reminds me of some combination of Bynum’s strength, and Nene’s agility.  He’s ready to play now and should be starting for a Detroit team that can breathe a sigh of relief now that Bazz is ineligible meaning he won’t solidify the first pick in the draft this year.

    One question I have is that if the Pistons’ are grooming Drummond to be their Center of the future why are they still playing Monroe at Center?  Shouldn’t they be playing Monroe at PF so when they think Drummond is ready all they have to do is plug him in.  Now you’re gonna throw Monroe off his game too by making him switch to another position.

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  • #727295
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    omphalos
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     I watched the game after seeing this thread, and they weren’t an impressive 22 points, he got the last 8 in the last minutes of the game on put-backs when the Thunder had the game well under control, and he only had 9 FG attempts, the majority were put-backs or offensive rebounds.

    I’ve been watching as many Drummond games as possible as I’m a big fan, but the Pistons simply don’t give him the ball. I’ve yet to see them run a play for him, they seem to be determined to do anything but feed him the ball inside, and if he wants a shot, he’ll have to get it with an offensive rebound, despite having the handle, vision and mobility to play the high post effectively in my opinion.

    Frank doesn’t seem to know what to do with him yet, hopefully he’ll be given more scoring opportunities, but it’s UConn all over again, where the guards are jacking shots like nobody’s business and Drummond is expected to just play D and go for offensive rebounds while people proclaim he should be doing more.

    On a related note. the same thing is happening with Barnes in Golden State, he almost never gets a play called for him, Thompson and Curry are jacking shots whenever they get their hands on it, and people will read the box scores and say he’s underperforming, when really, the coaching staff and other players are preventing him from succeeding.

    These things will probably keep happening too, because Barnes and Drummond are both team-first players first and foremost.

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