Dismal Mocks

Chad Ford put out his 2nd mock of the NBA draft, and it's a little bleaker for the Pistons. His first mock had the Pistons getting Victor Oladipo, the second has them getting Shabazz (and you know how I feel about Shabazz).

Ford is more optimistic about this than most Pistons fans are. I'm holding out hope that The Pistons get a top 3 pick or a team drafting ahead of them reaches for a guy like Shabazz, Alex Len or Zeller.

The Pistons are still looking for their next coach, interviewing assistants like BJ Bickerstaff (ugh) and Darrell Walker (meh). I feel like they're just treading water until they can interview Brian Shaw (hmmm) and Mo Cheeks (UGH). Stan Van Gundy has basically said he'll coach a contender or a team in a warm climate, so that rules him out. The Pistons apparently have no interest in Sloan, so the only unemployed marquee coach left would be Jackson. To get him, Gores would have to fire Dumars because Phil wants a GM job if he's going to coach. Dumars has probably made enough bad moves that he deserves to be fired (although I like the last few he's made), but he certainly doesn't deserve to get back-doored like that.

Speaking of the Pistons' coaching situation, I took a look at all the teams either currently in the market for a coach or rumored to be. The Clippers and the Hawks haven't fired their coaches yet, but the writing is on the wall. With the Nets, those jobs are the most attractive for a prospective coach. The next tier would be the Bucks, 76ers and Pistons in some order. The bottom tier consists of the Suns job and the Bobcats. All told, Detroit is either the 4th, 5th or 6th most desirable job, unless the Clips & Hawks don't fire their guys and then Detroit is 2nd - 4th.

The Wings lost the EVER important game 5 in OT, tipping the series 3-2 in favor of Anaheim. I don't have a lot to say about this game, since it was a late game & I completely missed it. The series isn't over yet, Abdelkader coming back helps, but I'm emotionally checking out of this one (unless they bring me back in!).

There was some pretty funny Lions news (well, ex-Lions news). Titus Young managed to get himself arrested twice in one day. Maybe not the NFL record he was going for, but it managed to remind me of a line from The Three Musketeers (1993 Disney version, great flick), so it was worth it.