OT: MIchigan Sports Thread: UM wins Natty Championship

[FabricDetails]

Still gonna be a good team.

Anyway I feel like 3-5 is pretty interchangeable but I haven’t really looked into most of the prospects this year.

Define good. I appreciate your optimism but with the current roster and then the addition of another lottery pick the team would still be beyond fortunate to make an improvement similar to what Orlando did last year. I'm reserving judgment until September as far as where to set realistic expectations.

 

[SpookyTsuki]

Define good. I appreciate your optimism but with the current roster and then the addition of another lottery pick the team would still be beyond fortunate to make an improvement similar to what Orlando did last year. I'm reserving judgment until September as far as where to set realistic expectations.

Good for the pistons would be contending for the bubble.

I am being optimistic though I trust weaver to hire the right coach who with this team (with Cade out) lost a bunch of close games with a bottom 6-7 defense. Progression of all the young guys will be big with a good coach.

 

[Filppula]

I’m so over draft lotteries. What an absolute joke.

 

[Hen Kolland]

Mitigate tanking.

It works so well that one owner paid a million dollar fine willingly to protect the 2-3% to be in the mix instead of trying to win with a top 3 player in the league already on their roster.

Mitigate tanking? You can’t. The lottery gives even more teams the chance to consider mailing it in and tanking.

 

[aar000n]

Another Detroit team another screw job in the "random" lotto.

 

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

Another Detroit team another screw job in the "random" lotto.

The Pistons won the lotto two years ago. They way less room to bitch.

 

[BSHH]

At least pick #5 should yield the Pistons Jarace Walker, a player they desperately need (albeit not an über-talent, of course). With Cunningham and Bogdanovic coming back plus a good FA PF (the cap space is there), there should be some progress. The new coach might be an improvement as well.

Gruß,
BSHH

 

[FabricDetails]

It works so well that one owner paid a million dollar fine willingly to protect the 2-3% to be in the mix instead of trying to win with a top 3 player in the league already on their roster.

Mitigate tanking? You can’t. The lottery gives even more teams the chance to consider mailing it in and tanking.

It really doesn't (mitigate tanking). And yet, here we are.

 

[Hen Kolland]

It really doesn't (mitigate tanking). And yet, here we are.

The system is flawed in that a team like Portland, who had nearly double the amount of wins of Detroit had nearly only 10% worse odds of picking top 4. That the Pistons were essentially a 50/50 shot of ending up where they did despite being the only team to not win 20 games in the league.

This is the exact same thing we just talked about in 2020 regarding the NHL. And the NHL changed their format to mitigate this type of thing from happening.

What is more detrimental to the league, bad teams try to be really bad, or bad teams are made perpetually bad because of a system that limits their chance to acquire difference makers?

Just limit the lottery to fewer teams, limit the number of picks in the lottery, limit the number of wins in a set period of time. Force teams to attempt to build after winning. It really shouldn't be as hard as they have made it for bad teams to be good

 

[FabricDetails]

The system is flawed in that a team like Portland, who had nearly double the amount of wins of Detroit had nearly only 10% worse odds of picking top 4. That the Pistons were essentially a 50/50 shot of ending up where they did despite being the only team to not win 20 games in the league.

This is the exact same thing we just talked about in 2020 regarding the NHL. And the NHL changed their format to mitigate this type of thing from happening.

What is more detrimental to the league, bad teams try to be really bad, or bad teams are made perpetually bad because of a system that limits their chance to acquire difference makers?

Just limit the lottery to fewer teams, limit the number of picks in the lottery, limit the number of wins in a set period of time. Force teams to attempt to build after winning. It really shouldn't be as hard as they have made it for bad teams to be good

You ain't telling no lies. I don't disagree with any of that. It sucks.

At the very least I'm thankful it went their way in 2021. And regardless of whatever the result was last night, the team needs to get a little more older/more experienced if they actually want to challenge for a play-in spot. We shall see next fall.

 

[aar000n]

The Pistons won the lotto two years ago. They way less room to bitch.

and they will probably win it next year with the low-tier talent coming out, This draft was deal-breaking and the number 5 is not even 1/10 the number one pick.

 

[Ed Ned and Leddy]

My Pistons anger aside, noticed that Marshall Warren transferred to U of M. Really like that get, was a big fan of his game with the NTDP. At 5’11 I don’t think he brings enough offense at this point to get serious NHL minutes, but a nice get for the Wolverines.

 

[FabricDetails]

I don't drink... I don't especially love the song (always felt as if Im supposed to like it because I'm a Wings fan)... But this pretty cool.

TikTok - Make Your Day

www.tiktok.com

 

[FabricDetails]

Anyone else have a random DJ/Jukebox in your brain that decides to play songs you haven't gone out of your way to listen to in years?

Today it decided on this one...

 

[FabricDetails]

This is the bad place.

Yeah I know, it's not surprising. Still annoying.

 

[Hen Kolland]

This is the bad place.

Yeah I know, it's not surprising. Still annoying.

I saw this and it didn't even register with me that they had already started advertising. This is harmless and I don't care anymore

 

[Ed Ned and Leddy]

This is the bad place.

Yeah I know, it's not surprising. Still annoying.

No firm figures released, but the lowest comparable figure I’ve found for one of these MLB jersey ads is the Padres at 9m a year.

Nice chunk of change into Illitch’s pockets at the low low price of continually eroding the beauty of sports. I’m sure we’ll see it trickle down to ticket prices.

 

[FabricDetails]

I’m sure we’ll see it trickle down to ticket prices.

As well as District Detroit developments. When you gonna visit? Haha.

 

[ricky0034]

as much as this stuff is a slippery slope that patch looks so small and unobtrusive that I have a hard time making myself care much

but I guess that's the idea isn't it? ramp it up over time

 

[SpookyTsuki]

I don’t really watch baseball anyway so it doesn’t really affect me too much.

Can’t wait for every league to look like euro hockey though

 

[raymond23]

This is the bad place.

Yeah I know, it's not surprising. Still annoying.

The way they announce these things is so f***ing dystopian lol

 

[FabricDetails]

So you're saying I should shop at Aldi. Loud and clear.

 

[jkutswings]

So you're saying I should shop at Aldi. Loud and clear.

This is Michigan. Any business name is required to have a letter S added to the end of it. So Aldis.

 

[Winger98]

No firm figures released, but the lowest comparable figure I’ve found for one of these MLB jersey ads is the Padres at 9m a year.

Nice chunk of change into Illitch’s pockets at the low low price of continually eroding the beauty of sports. I’m sure we’ll see it trickle down to ticket prices.

They can pay me a lot less to wear a shirt with meijer on its sleeve.

 

[FabricDetails]

Come on, bro. Haha.