Mohammed agrees to deal with Detroit

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Free agent center Nazr Mohammed of the Spurs has agreed to a deal with the Detroit Pistons, ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher is reporting.

Terms were unavailable. Mohammed replaces Ben Wallace, who told the team Monday that he was leaving to join the Chicago Bulls.

Wallace, who agreed to a four-year, $60 million deal with Chicago, helped Detroit advance to four straight conference finals -- the first team to do so since the Bulls of the early 1990s.

Mohammed played in 80 games for San Antonio last season, averaging 6.2 points and 5.2 rebounds.</div>

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is this for the full mle exception or what.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting TheFreshPrince:</div><div class="quote_post">is this for the full mle exception or what.</div>

What?

 

What about that Darko guy? Oh yeah I forgot, he is turning into a stud in Orlando.

 

I thought the full MLE was 4.5 mil? Did they have any cap?

Anyways, it was either Mohammed or Pryzbilla. So I guess it's a nice signing, because there was no other choices.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting slpnsld23:</div><div class="quote_post">What?</div>

how much did you guys sign him for?

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting TheFreshPrince:</div><div class="quote_post">how much did you guys sign him for?</div>
On ESPN it said 5 years, 30 million.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2509256

 

5 Years/30 Million is the expected terms of the contract. Basically the full MLE.

I bet Dumars is wishing he would of kept Darko now.

1st mistake: Drafting Darko
2nd mistake: Trading away Darko

 

First, lets get this straight. Mohammed is no Ben Wallace. Second, this isn't a bad signing for the Pistons considering they weren't able to get anything in return for Ben Wallace. Sure, Mohammed won't lead the league in blocks or rebounding but he still poses as a defensive threat on the floor, teams will have to respect that.

 

Not a bad backup plan. Mohammad does many of the things Ben does--rebound and block shots--just not as well. But Nazr does have a much better shooting touch and refined offensive game than Ben.

 

Yeah Dumars traded Darko away for like nothing. The kid could play when given the chance, it would have made letting go of Big Ben easy. Mohammed is a good signing, Pryz would have been better, but he resigned with Portland. The Pistons should have upped the antes for Big Ben cuz they would have been the favorites in the East for the next coming season, maybe even next? As it stands, Detroit, won a championship, time for other teams to claim theirs.

 

I'm not going to criticize this signing until I see Nazr in the team, but I havent been impressed with what I've seen of him elsewhere.

I guess a positive is we save ourselves alot of money.

Also I think Pistons fans have forgotten the 1st round pick we got off Orlando in the Darko trade, I'm guessing this will be used to pick up a centre, and there is tipped to be a good crop of them in next years draft (Joakim Noah, Greg Oden, Roy Hibbert etc. if they declare). Only problem with that is Orlando is looking better and better every week

 

honestly, thats a pretty decent signing on short notice....im hopin he'll perform at a level for us that he did for the knicks 2 seasons ago. He can also be involved in our offense, so we wont have to play 5 on 4 on offense all the time. He'll get his on defense as well, playing alongside rasheed will take some pressure of him.

 

I think this is just a temporary move, I honestly can't see Nazr in this team after next season, there was even talk of a potential sign and trade, so who knows whats going to happen with this.

 

i seriously dont even know what this signing is going to do for the pistons. next year their whole team will suffer greatly because of loosing ben. the defense that the pistons used to get to the easter confrince finals every year will not be there. NONE of the pistons will be all stars next year unless teyshaun has a real breakout season. i say the pistons are now a 40 win team and a 5th playoff seed at best. and i know ben didnt score, but the pistons werent a good team because of their offense...

 

We notched up 64 wins (the best in our Franchise history) last season playing a mainly offensive based game, and you're telling me we're not a good offensive team? Defense is our specialty, but we're also a very good offensive team.

 

Thing is, when Detroit focused on Defense first, they won titles. I really think losing Big Ben is going to hurt the Pistons. They will be contenders, but with up and coming teams like the Cavs, Bulls, Orlando, and Washington, the East is getting very competitive.

 

Fair enough point, but as so many people like to remind us, the Pistons play as a team, theres not once person who who does more than some one else, so you cant really contribute Ben as the factor that won us a title (he was a key part obviously), but they help each other out, they help each other become better, and I suspect that wont change.

 

Losing ben might have lost us some defense, but adding nazr gives us better offense. We're playing offense with 5 players, not 4. Even though we've lost ben we still have 3 all-stars and tay.
We lost LB last season and got to 64 wins. So hopefully losing ben will make the rest of our players play better and win a title.

 

Ben wallace was the face of the pistons franshise. Ben was also the MVP when they won the championship, not chauncey.The reason Chauncey and Rip are considered good defenders is because they have been backing them up in the post to swat shots.I will say that Teyshaun is an awsome defender and is a better all around player than rip in my opinion. His game should improve alot next season. However,The pistons are now a second teir team in the NBA without Ben, and wont go farther than the second round in the playoffs. NJ is now arguably better.