Monroe looks great and I think he will start to average 20/10 soon. Stuckey the last 6 weeks or so has been great, wierd. Knight looks good, but I want to see more assists per game.

I love what the future looks like. Mr. Dumars built our most recent Championship teams with B+ players at the time he signed them. Rip, Chauncey, and Ben were all good when they came to Detroit, but became great....as a unit. We got their best years and then age (injury) and money blew the wheels off the cart. The difference this time around is that our core is young. Their best years are still ahead. AND they are still reasonably priced.

If you look at the playoff teams in the East right now, 3 (Atlanta, Philly, Indiana) of the 8 do not have a bona fide superstar (like Rose, James, Wade, Anthony, Howard, Pierce) let alone multiple super stars. I certainly don't want to be considered underdogs that climb a little further up the ladder every year, but never win it all. However, given the fact that financial constraints dictate the construction of a team these days, adding Tier 2 free agents (and not grossly overpaying--CV, BG, TP) together with a little luck in the draft can bring great things.

The real question, to me, concerns Lawrence Frank's ability to do what Larry Brown did.