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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Paying for Production: Rating Teams and Players

Introduction This summer the unthinkable happened. The best starting five in the league, the 2005/2006 Detroit Pistons, ceased to exist. Pax and Skiles came a calling, and Big Ben went a walking. Ben Wallace. Joe Dumars. Mr. Davidson. Scott Skiles. John Paxson. Space aliens in braids. Pick any two, add the expletive of your choice [...]

Transition Game

In recent days, my attention’s been strongly drawn to transitions. Maybe it’s because the new school year just began. Maybe because my girlfriend and I broke up a couple of months ago. Maybe because the swirling snow stinging my eyes yesterday – a record for the area’s earliest snowfall – brought home the change of [...]

It was the best of times

It was the worst of times. Those words are the opening line from a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and best describes the task of separating the member article content at Pistonsforum.com into it’s own dedicated site.