Rod Beard on the LATEST Detroit Pistons News!

Rod Beard on the LATEST Detroit Pistons News!

hey yo shout out and welcome to the legend Detroit News Rod beard brother how are you doing today and take it away with r gentlemen gentlemen it must be Wednesday must be Wednesday but but it NBA free agency still is absolutely the best of all of the free agency I don’t care what people say about the NFL we know it’s not the NHL or or MLB but you got Klay Thompson in a Mavs uniform what what are we doing going to the Spurs it’s like you’re playing musical chairs with teams and then people just end up in the weirdest places and I’m not saying it’s not going to fit I like clay uh positionally and where he would play in Dallas but it’s just weird just people that you known to be in certain jerseys for their entire careers moving to different places and so it’ll create some storylines definitely it would definitely create some story lines it was I know JB smooth is over here in the TD space today and uh he’s uh a Golden State Warriors supporter and just uh seeing Klay Thompson and this Warriors team start to break down this legendary Warriors teams try to break down it’s been tough on him he’s over here shaking his head in despair right now it is it’s going to be weird you know Klay Thompson with the Dallas Mavericks there a squad that were just in the finals hopefully he can help put them over the top hopefully he doesn’t become like Patrick Ying on the magic or Hakeem Elijah on the Raptors I don’t think he will I think I think clay has more game left in him than those respective players did but you always run that risk when you change teams like that that late in your career yeah I mean if you’re choosing if you’re choosing do you identify Draymond as a warrior more than clay as a warrior that’s a legit question damn oh yeah that’s tough that’s a legit one rank the Warriors like the same right they have to be yeah that’s like trying to in some part separate you know when you think about that going to work Pistons Squad it’s really really really difficult say which one was the one or which one was above the other I mean they’ll probably both be in the hall I mean Klay Thompson definitely Draymond yeah they’ll probably both be in the Hall of Fame so yeah he’s a Hall of Famer yeah that’s that’s a good question though man yeah great question that’s one we’re GNA have to discuss on the show a little bit later but um you got to get ride back on call Dro yeah yeah no definitely because what I want to be able to do is I want to ask him about Jaden Ivy that’s what I’m going to do and this Detroit Pistons start lineup and and I think that’s the nuanced way I to be able to ask about his opinions because I don’t think that there’s too many people who believe that that J and Ivy is Av to take your call but please all right we gonna figure out what’s going on technical difficulty all right yeah because I don’t I don’t think that there’s a lot of people out there who believe that J Navy is a bad player you know shout out to Speak Easy who’s in the in the chats this one thing that he’s been talking about for a while is the fit with j and iy next to Kade Cunningham and I don’t know if it’s necessarily A Kade Cunningham specific thing or not but just in general in this lineup so I I’m hoping I see kg talking to Rod now we’ll try and get him back on here soon because I’m really intrigued to see what his opinion is on this starting lineup for the Detroit pists mov forward yeah I mean it’s looking like right now that obviously it’s going to be Cade and then either Tim Hardaway Jr or Malik Beasley at the two and that’s that’s the uh let’s ask let beard let’s hey R you back with us brother yep got you yes sir yes sir look man we’ve been talking about J and iy we’re looking at all of the itions that tran Landon is Detroit Pistons front office has made they’ve made some pretty shrewd moves shout out to Blackstone in the front office who has been helping TR and Landon a lot with the cap space management but Jade and Ivy man Jade and Ivy is the guy who I’m just like okay what’s happening with this pisson squad especially when you think about the starting lineup is he a guy that is still destined as we once believed to be to be the starting two guard for this squad or do you see things shaking out a little bit different for this piston start lineup this season and I guess kind of a followup is what role do you see 5y I think right now he’s a six man for me because I want to get off to a good start I want the leadership of a Malik Beasley or a Tim Hardway Jr to start the season instead of the other way around and if things if you start Ivy and things don’t go well then you go to your vet I think you let Ivy figure it out and and not to say that he’s a rookie and he doesn’t know what he’s doing but in a six-man role I think he can he can give you the energy Off the Bench and I think with Cade specifically you need that shooting around him to start the game I I just I like the look of that a little bit more and I and I know people think a little bit different when I put the question out on uh Twitter yesterday people were all over the place about Ivy has to start I don’t think that’s necessarily the case I think he can be an effective six man and provide some energy off the yeah and I’m glad that you stated that because I did as soon as I saw your your post yesterday on x I sent it to the crew and I said you know what we got to talk to Rod about this on uh wake up Woodward uh during our Woodward Pistons segment and you had some pretty cool Wing combinations do you have the results or at least how that That Shook out and uh what’s your combination for uh for this Detroit Pistons uh starting lineup mine is is Beasley fonio if Beasley can start for for um for Dallas he can start for me it that’s just how it works I I think he’s a or I start for the I’m sorry if he can start for them he can start for me yeah and Hardway same sort of deal if he can start enough games for them what’s to say that he can’t start for the Pistons and provide some of that same um experience that same three-point shooting I think that’s the biggest thing you can come with the second unit and and have the other be the three-point shooter with Ivy kind of directing that group with Sasser in the back court I think that’s a different formula that I would see working out a little bit better I am so glad that you mentioned Malik because because you kind of mentioned one of the same points that I’ve been thinking of when it comes to Malik Beasley he’s a guy that started 79 games on the Bucks last year he does shoot the three ball better throughout his career than Tim Hardaway Jr if you can play on a starting lineup with with Giannis with Brook Lopez with Chris Middleton with Dame Lillard a team that would have gone farther in the playoffs if it weren’t for Giannis being hurt you can start for the Detroit Pistons and conversely Tim Hardway Jr only started 12 games and he was out of the rotation come playoff time I’m not saying I don’t want him on on the Pistons glad to have them it’s just if it were me I would probably agree with your wing combination and put Beasley and fono and then Tim Hardaway junor be the two guard Off the Bench and you know what I actually I like that I like that fanto because we were talking about a little bit during the break and I was like you know what the discernable skills of a Beasley Beyond just shooting is it enough in that starting lineup and it’s like you know if it’s enough for the bucks it’s definitely enough for the the historically bad Detroit Pistons and when you talk about uh adding a fio um to this lineup All Season not the 16 to 19 games that he played last year you’re talking about a whole lot more shooting in this lineup right now and that’s where things get interesting with the Jay and Ivy and I saw somebody saying I wish I had the comment they said that the three-point shot has broken basketball and I think that it’s challenging players more in the past you could rely on a lot of the skills that J and iy had and get by in the past you could rely on we talked about Andre Drummond being a big man who maybe 20 years ago perfect error for him but he got caught in the switch and we saw if you can’t if you can’t find a way to evolve and adapt it’s going to leave you behind J iy though has enough skill and he shown me enough that I do believe he will Thrive but as a six-man role if you tell him right now this is your discernable role in your discernable skill go out there and work at it when you come in be that Jay Crawford be that absolute just bar and burner for us I do believe that that could be a good role for him I’m still for him starting 14 points at your six spot is not bad at all it’s not it’s not you here here’s the other thing though if why why did you why would you go out and get Beasley and Hardaway if if you weren’t going to start one of them you you go and get two very solid wings and you’re you’re gonna still just start Ivy that doesn’t that doesn’t make sense to me and in terms of the salaries you didn’t pay a ton it’s not like going to get Tobias Harris and you know you have to start him because you’re paying him that number yeah but if you’re going to get two vet is it to back up Ivy possibly but I think you want to be solid and that and judging by what tra and Lang’s comments were in in his presser it was we need vets to augment this young roster you can’t have a ton of young guys running the show here you need a few guys to sprinkle in that starting lineup to give them some leadership and to make those games closer early on yeah and just to just to piggyback on that uh really quickly that was one of the things we talked about with Tran langon is how does he see this roster he’s not connected to any of these young guys we knew that K cunning was going to get that contract cuz he’s connected to the organization but Tran L is able to come in here and assess with unbiased non-connected eyes to these young players that were B in here through via the previous regime and just make the actual best decision for the basketball team yeah yeah yo and Rod one of the things that I like is in real time I the gears were kind of Shifting in my head on this you think about the Pistons and their depth given the fact that they just added Paul Reed yesterday I start to think and if we’re assuming we’re going off of the Beasley fono Wing pairing you’ve got on the bench you’ve got assar Thompson you’ve got Ron Holland you’ve got Paul Reed you’ve got beef St you’ve got Marcus Sasser you’ve got Jaden Ivy you’ve got guys who have shown skill sets in the NBA or our top five draft picks my question is is there going to be an odd man out by the time the season starts yes and what this suggest what what this suggests to me is there’s going to Via trade because now with all the people you’ve mentioned you can’t have an 11 man rotation who’s the odd man out in that you and if there are 11 people there’s some kind of trade coming or or something it it just smells like that that maybe one of the young guys maybe maybe you just say hey Holland is just not going to be in the rotation he’ll get spot minutes here and there maybe that’s the answer to this thing but this looks like there’s there’s some type of trade and maybe you get you move one of the younger guys maybe Thompson maybe Ivy maybe somebody else like that I don’t know I don’t have any inside info but I’m just saying I’m guessing looking by the number of people and which people they brought in this there’s going to be an odd man maybe two out in the way this is set up man and and you know what and I with this Jay iy uh conversation just to kind of put a bow on it I’m not I’m not putting a cap on his ceiling but I’m also glad that treas and Landon is doing something a little bit better than we saw out of the Pistons last year the just seem to say you know what we’re just assessing these young guys again and they didn’t do a lot to put them in a position just to to thrive to succeed what if Jay Navy in a six-man role gets the opportunity to to you know starting off the bench learn by seeing other experienced players ahead of him doing it the right way and then get the opportunity to come in with a little bit less stress and pressure that goes on with starting and is able to find a role that he’s able to grow into even if that’s eventually a starter and so I’m I’m glad that traser Landon is able to come in here with the eyes that he has and is just able to say you know what let’s put these guys in their best positions I don’t care if you’re a starter or if you’re not a starter and I think you needed a guy like that who was disconnected from the situation a part of other winning organizations to come in with his eyes assess what’s here and and say you know what this is what needs to be yeah good K big facts uh Ry I actually have two questions for you the first one being um with all the moves that tran has made so far um how would you grade the Pistons off season up until this point I would say a strong B I mean they they didn’t and and we talked about this for for most of the spring I wanted a big Zack LaVine type thing and and you see the rest of the league isn’t touching any of that that that contract type stuff with LaVine anyway um we talked about Tobias they’ve spent the money well positionally they’ve got the the needs that they needed to fill and haven’t broken the bank to do it and haven’t really gotten a long-term deal I think MIT Michael Blackstone I think they’ve done smart things are they going to go out and win 40 games maybe not with this roster but they’ve done smart things so I will give them a B on on just this is a better roster going out into the start of the Season assuming this is it if they do nothing else this is a b all right and then my my second question was uh JB bicker staff he’s having his press conference today is there anything in particular that you would like to here uh from JB bicker staff and do you think that there’s a particular direction he should take with this uh Team no I I don’t think there’s anything in particular I want to hear I think it’s it’s it’s just sort of the same thing that um Lan laid out was that this is going to take time there isn’t some hey we’re ready to go and we out here about to hit the play and I don’t want to hear that but I want to hear hey we’re we’re going to take these young guys and work with them and mold this into a team that the city can be proud of that’s give me one sentence like that and I’m good [Music]

Sports Editor and former Detroit Pistons beat reporter for the Detroit News, Rod Beard joins Brandon “Detroit Kool-Aid” Dent, Matt Broder and Flannel Sam to give a pulse on the happenings of the Detroit Pistons recent moves.

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