Pistons waive Josh Smith

[Care-Oh-Linuh]

Have you watched the Pistons play this year? Defenders leave him unguarded because they know he'll miss, and he still takes and clanks a ton of jumpers.

My point is, I still believe he's better than what we have right now at the 4. Personally I think zeller should be playing 35 minutes and vonleh should be the first big off the bench. But will that happen? No!

If we can get the talent smith has for the minimum I think that's a great deal, even for just the rest of this year. Atleast then you could shop Marvin's terrible contract and give a younger guy more go.

It's less about what he has done, and more about what he can do for the price.

[dunnlx]

Never liked Josh Smith, gar bage lol

[rmoneyg35]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Josh Smith pretty good when he was with the hawks? I do believe that a big reason why he sucks is because they have him playing SF when he is a PF and the pistons scheme probably doesn't help him any.

[Omega Atrocity]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Josh Smith pretty good when he was with the hawks? I do believe that a big reason why he sucks is because they have him playing SF when he is a PF and the pistons scheme probably doesn't help him any.

He isn't playing SF this year. He put up decent numbers in Atlanta, but every fan they had cheered when Joe Dumars threw money at him last off-season.

[rmoneyg35]

He isn't playing SF this year. He put up decent numbers in Atlanta, but every fan they had cheered when Joe Dumars threw money at him last off-season.

Are you saying last year he did play small forward? Because I swore Monroe was the PF and they had Josh smith at SF and back up PF. Also if you google Josh Smith it has him as a PF/SF. I don't watch the pistons play so I have to go on what I read but I am pretty sure that he was placed out of position at SF.

[Omega Atrocity]

Are you saying last year he did play small forward? Because I swore Monroe was the PF and they had Josh smith at SF and back up PF. Also if you google Josh Smith it has him as a PF/SF. I don't watch the pistons play so I have to go on what I read but I am pretty sure that he was placed out of position at SF.

He has started at PF all year. Monroe comes off the bench. I've watched 2 of their games this year.

[MV%doe]

Wow. The roto warrior in me can not understand this, plus no takers??? There's plenty of awful contracts in nba and no one wanted the talents of smith? He must be one toxic person off the court, I still don't get this....... he's not even old either. Yea he's playing terrible, but he has all the skills you want.

[Omega Atrocity]

Wow. The roto warrior in me can not understand this, plus no takers??? There's plenty of awful contracts in nba and no one wanted the talents of smith? He must be one toxic person off the court, I still don't get this....... he's not even old either. Yea he's playing terrible, but he has all the skills you want.

The Kings offered a couple of bad contracts for him, but the Pistons thought they would be better off waiving him with the stretch clause than taking back a bad contract.

[rmoneyg35]

He has started at PF all year. Monroe comes off the bench. I've watched 2 of their games this year.

Got ya. I was looking at his career stats and it seems he is very inconsistent. One year he shot over 33% on three point shots while he regressed and shot less than 24%, one year he shoots over 72% of his free throws and now shoots less than 49% of his free throws. One year he almost averaged 3 blocks per game which now he doesn't even average 2 blocks per game.

The guy has talent to do many things but I'm sure he has hit his prime. It's probably a mental thing, maybe the right coach and team can motivate him. It just seems like he became a different player when he went to Detroit. To me it's sad to see all that talent go away without a major injury being the reason.

[Omega Atrocity]

Got ya. I was looking at his career stats and it seems he is very inconsistent. One year he shot over 33% on three point shots while he regressed and shot less than 24%, one year he shoots over 72% of his free throws and now shoots less than 49% of his free throws. One year he almost averaged 3 blocks per game which now he doesn't even average 2 blocks per game.

The guy has talent to do many things but I'm sure he has hit his prime. It's probably a mental thing, maybe the right coach and team can motivate him. It just seems like he became a different player when he went to Detroit. To me it's sad to see all that talent go away without a major injury being the reason.

He's a classic example of a guy that could possibly be a star if he put in the effort required. He was amazing from a talent perspective. But he has a low basketball IQ and never put in the effort needed to be a star. It's sad, but not that uncommon.

[MichaelNewtonII]

Josh Smith Will sign with Houston per b/r

[carpanfan96]

Josh Smith Will sign with Houston per b/r

 

They guaranteed he would start for them and could offer the most money among the teams interested and in contention that offered a starting spot. (Miami and Houston were the only ones)

[rmoneyg35]

They guaranteed he would start for them and could offer the most money among the teams interested and in contention that offered a starting spot. (Miami and Houston were the only ones)

I hope it doesn't mess up Houston's chemistry. I personally think they will be better but anything could happen when you mess with a teams chemistry.

[Rise of The Hive]

He is teaming up with his boy Dwight.