Kevin O’Connor is about as good at draft evaluation as he is at talking to women

Now, have I ever heard or seen KOC talk to a woman? No

But do I really need to?

People make fun of KOC for Hayes, but seem to forget that everyone actually had Hayes really high in that draft

They need Poole and Kuzma if they really wanna go all in on the tank

Hayes is a floor-razer [sic].

He had a 13 assist game or he has 13 assists over 3 games?? Because I’m looking at his box scores and it’s certainly not the first option

Any pistons fan. He might have improved, but he was absolutely shite with us.

No, he did not.

#NI HAO NI HAO

kings flair commented right after you:

Killian Hayes is pretty fucking bad

We had a 5 min or so stretch lat year where Franz Paolo and suggs were all out so it was Cole Anthony hero ball and the play by play genuinely looked like this at one point:

Cole Anthony misses a three

Cole Anthony turns the ball over

Cole Anthony turns the ball over

Cole Anthony misses a lay up

Cole Anthony turns the ball over.

He was like ²⁄₈ and 4 tos in less than 10 mins. Genuinely painful to watch

Offense it is then

Ah shite I forgot the /s didn’t I? It’d be funny, but not smart

Two years away from being two years away!

It was wreckful and reckless

Shut

Size is a factor and he does try, but defense is also a skill/discipline and he’s simply not good at it.

Size isn’t an excuse. There’s lots of ways short people are very effective, like wrecking havoc in passing lanes and just overall being much quicker. Having good instincts helps. If you put in effort and do man to man defense with low disruption like he does, effort doesn’t mean shit

It wasn’t malicious though. It was reckless. Reckless doesn’t mean malicious. He made multiple reckless and dangerous plays that were inexcusable because he’s a fucking idiot and he was desperate to get back into the rotation. The 2nd incident shouldn’t have happened because the staff should have made sure he learned from the first.

It’s still 100% terrible and should be damaging to his reputation. He was reckless and dangerous, and it should absolutely have damaged his career as it has done. It’s honestly kind of a shame that doesn’t happen more with more talented players, rather than some of them being able to overcome that by putting up stats.

But I don’t understand why we aren’t making the distinction and treating both reckless and malicious as bad, but individual things that can both be present but aren’t necessarily always. Reckless driving gets a ticket. Reckless actions that cause damages result in paying for damages or serving time even. When intent and malice are factored in, worse charges come into the picture.

To me, it’s always been clear he’s a mildly dirty player who plays recklessly when he’s not playing well and/or desperate for playing time. He shouldn’t be in the league. But it means something to distinguish behaviors when you have players who are really trying to hurt people and watering down discussion about dirty play.

Because he dove into Shaedon Sharpe’s legs the same way like 2 weeks later.

It seemed like a reoccurring theme with him unfortunately. And having awareness retroactively doesn’t make up for his reckless play essentially derailing Ivey’s career

You can do some reckless shit and then feel bad when someone gets hurt. I dont think it was intentional but was clearly careless as hell. No beef with Magic but fuck Cole Anthony until the heat death of the universe.

Fuck cole anthony

Who else is on the list?

Ivey is still pretty athletic but he’s no longer the fastest guy in the league who would continuously shock opponent announcers when he went full throttle.

He can’t get by defenders at all this year post injury, we’ll see if he gets it back but it’s left him very depressed and mopey

Israeli Basketball arc incoming

Assuming your a pistons fan (flair up) I agree and it’s honestly exhausting watching the pistons have their best season and watch Pistons fans be just as miserable as we were for the past 15 years because “we have no spacing” or “its not championship material”. I didn’t watch the Pistons be horrible my entire life just to finally have a fun team and listen to Pistons fans cry about everything.

But also yeah, loose balls are just a part of basketball and Pistons fans have collectively ignored the fact that it’s just a part of basketball. It’s also really ironic for us Pistons fans to die on this hill about Cole Anthony, considering our entire fucking history is built around the identities of insane players beating people up.