Will Valenti Approve Of These “Free Agent Fits” For The Pistons? | The Valenti Show with Rico

Will Valenti Approve Of These “Free Agent Fits” For The Pistons? | The Valenti Show with Rico

We have a topic we’re going to do. Um, Odyssey.com Rewind. If you wanted the Tigers primo trade target, according to ESPN, I fully support it. Um, but you guys pre-show were pretty spicy. You were ball breakers. We got a topic. Who bike’s going to throw a chair like I’m some kind of windup toy? But yeah, look, the off season is upon us and you guys were tickled pink with this article in the free press. So, I’m going to sit here and I’ll do what I’m told minus the chair part. I don’t know what you think I’m going to get so upset about. I’m in a good mood, but what is the issue? Lay it out for me. Basically, it was an article in the free press that came up with a list of free agent players that the Pistons should pursue. Free agents. Yes. Well, the free agent class is garbage. Then I’ll add there’s something that they could trade for as well. Okay. So, there’s two lists. You have my entries, right? We haven’t wound you up yet. Calm down as you would like. Relax. All right. But they came up with a list of names and these are some targets that honestly, we’ve talked about the free agent list. It’s not good. It’s awful. And I think if you’re going to any of these names, you’re better off just resigning everybody that’s on the team right now. I’d rather see you bring back Tim Hardaway Jr. I’d rather see Come on. You want the list of names? Yeah, I guessed. Yeah. Let me give you the free agent list first before I go through the trade list. How many of these am I going to approve of? Is that this game or do you just really just are like, Mike, you’re going to hate all this? No. How many would you say? Oh, you know what? Good move by the Pistons if they went out and got this person. Not great. Just it has to meet the standard of good. Th this person will help this team to the next level. Okay. Because we all we could all agree that the Pistons, they’re on the precipice of really becoming a power in the East with the East, you know, they’re reshuffling the deck. David, if you would please. Free agent list. Ty Jerome, go to hell. Why do I want a guy who’s played for six teams, he finally had a productive season with Cleveland, and you’re going to be the one who pays him? You know how that movie ends. Try hard guy tries hard. Finally, after falling on his face for 5 years, gets decent, and then you reward him. You know what happens. No. Brook Lopez. Oh god, stop it. He’s 50. What the hell do I need him for? Harris Levert. Feet made of Legos. Next. Gary Trent Jr. I mean, for $5, like what does it say he’s going to want? It doesn’t say. It doesn’t say. Pay him a couple of bucks. But that that doesn’t move the needle. Bruce Brown. Oh, for God’s sakes. Maybe five years ago. Trey Lyles. Is this a joke? No. No. This was in the free press. This is what we’re offering this fan base after this breakthrough year. Nquila Alexander Walker, player I can’t figure out. Came out of VTEC, had a lot of skills, first round pick. It just hasn’t he hasn’t put it all together, but I’m openly questioning whether anybody can flourish in New Orleans. Here are three more for you. Tus Jones, Cam Payne, and Mason Plumbley. That’s the free agent list. I have five others that you could possibly trade for. Oh, no, no, no. See, unlike Jeff Rigger, didn’t oversell this. I’m like, “Oh, wait till he sees this list. We purposely kept it away from you.” Cameron Payne, you’re going to hold a press conference for Cameron Payne or Mason Plumbley. Okay. I am Am I Guys, you can say I’m being unfair. Am I speaking for you or am I on an island? To hell with that whole list. which is why I said you’re better off just ressigning everybody who was on the team last year and running it back. Okay, you’re right. Now, let me get to the trade stuff. You start with the Pelicans forward Herbert Jones. I’m okay with it, but you know who I want on that team. And I understand there’s some legal issues right now, but I’ll stay away from it. Keep going. I’ll let you know where Herb Jones lands when I hear the other names. Another Pelican, Trey Murphy III, who is on a 4-year $112 million contract. Boston Celtics forward, Sam Hower. He’s cheap. He is dead eyee shooter. Underrated defensive player. D David, that’s a player for 8 million bucks. There’s a high level of functionality there. I’d love to keep him as a Celtics fan, but it we have to cost cut. I like Sam Hower because he’s Look, how about this? You pay 9 million for useless ass fontio. I could pay 8 million for a guy who helped the Celtics win a championship. He’s one of the best three-point shooters in basketball and he’s not an albatross defensively. Well, speaking of won a championship and can shoot the three, Klay Thompson. What? Great candidate. And then the final one would be 40. Not quite 40, but I get what you’re saying. Uh, another Dallas Maverick, and this one might actually be worth something, is PJ Washington. He’s had a lot of runs of being effective. Um, little bit of a goofball off the court, but I I could I could work my way there. No room for radio and not Kyrie. No, guys. I think what I take away from this though, and it’s kind of depressing, is this is an article thrown out by I would assume a beat writer whose life is covering the NBA. If this is what they think the realistic targets are, then uh Rico wins. I’ll just take option B. And that’s why right when David told me, and I like you might as well just resign everybody that you already have and run this thing back. If your off season featured a trade and a signing from the list of players that David just gave you, are you celebrating that? Brook Lopez. Brook Lopez and Caris Levert. No. David, what am I missing? You’re not You You just hit the nail on the head. This is not a list that excites you. This is something It doesn’t seem serious to me. Cameron Payne, it just doesn’t. He’s tryh hard guy that’s good for about five minutes a game and then that’s it. Look, the Trey Murphy thing I don’t hate. I I I want a different player on that team. I understand with legal situations happening. It’s probably not the time to do that topic. We have to see how that plays out. The Murphy thing I I could get. The problem is how good is he on a terrible team? So, when you’re putting up 20 a night, well, what does it really mean? And again, he’s a good enough three-point shooter. I’d have to Yeah. 38.3% career. I thought it was 36. Okay. Yeah, I could do the Trey Murphy thing. So, which goes back to something we talked about earlier in the show, David. It’s not on your list of trades, but do the Pistons get involved. The Knicks trying to move Cat. Should the Pistons get involved with that? Okay, I’ll stay out of this. This one’s for Detroit. Go ahead. Because I don’t think you would want to give up what it would take. Look, there just aren’t big men who can shoot the rock the way he does. He can post. Does he do some dumb things? Yes. Punchable face, no question. But he’s still a re he’d still be your unequivocal, unquestioned second best player, period. You could, but what would you have to give up to do it? Would the Knicks be willing to do that with an Eastern Conference rival? I I again, if I’m the Knicks, I’m asking for a lot for Carl Anthony Towns. A lot. And I just don’t think the Pistons are going to be in the business of doing that. No, I just know they’re trying to move him. And are you willing to just go ahead and because people were like, “Oh, go get Giannis. Go get Well, he’s going to be available. It’s going to cost you. Would you like to see Detroit jump into the Carl Anthony Towns sweep stakes 2485 through99797? The other problem and again three-point percentage. Now David, here’s the thing. So I just pulled up Murphy stuff, you know, as the volume has gone up, the numbers have gone down, and he basically turned into a 35% shooter this year. The other problem is this is a guy who had who’s started a grand total of 140 games in four years. This was the first year he really popped a little bit, but he did it in New Orleans on a god-awful team, but I like that he’s 24 and there might be more there that he can get better that bringing him into a winning team. I I I could work my way around it. That that’s a I’d much prefer to do that and invest a higher price. Let’s say what’s Murphy getting about 20 a year? Yeah. Fouryear $112 million deal that kicks in this season. Oh god. So then I got him for four years. It’s at like 20 25 27 29 and 31. That’s a 27 a year. 28 a year. An investment. No. No. No. Because Rico, what I’d rather do is take Tobias’s 26 plus Vonteo plus actual assets and pick. I’ll pay $40 million to the right player. Right. Really? I I I don’t that’s not the right player. I guess I get tired of why do we always have to accept the tryhard guy? Why can’t we actually go out and get a high level player? And that’s what I said. All right. Carl Anthony Towns. Knicks do not want him. Again, you would have to be willing to give up things you’re not willing to give up. It’s not about the idea. It’s about you can’t deconstruct this roster. And if I’m the Knicks and I’m trading with a rival, cuz make no mistake now, you’re rivals. You’re in the mix. They’re in the mix. I don’t see it. The KD thing makes more sense because you’re putting them, you’re launching him to the sun. You don’t see Carl Anthony Towns anymore. That’s true. 2485399797. We’ll get some ticket texts. Rico, tell them all about it.

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