The Pistons, in typical Dumars fashion, may have landed a gem.Detroit’s other second-rounders will play overseas next season.As for the Piston’s other two selections, Joe Dumars has said that the team made a list of guys they liked who were comfortable playing in Europe next year. Both Trent Plaisted and Deron Washington will play for the Piston’s summer league team, then move on to European clubs to work on their game during the regular season.This may explain why the Pistons did not select someone like Bill Walker with the 46th overall pick. The team’s roster is stacked, and Dumars knew they could not commit roster spots to more than one rookie this year.Chris Douglas-Roberts had no interest in being a Piston.This one took me by surprise. As CDR remained on the draft board as the Pistons picked 29th, then still at 32nd, I wondered why we didn’t bring the Detroiter home.It turns out that Douglas-Roberts did not want to wear a Pistons uniform at all. A confidant of the Memphis All-American, who happened to be in CDR’s presence on draft night, phoned in to a WDFN Detroit radio show to explain that Douglas-Roberts did not think his style of play fit with Detroit’s half-court offense and that he wanted to join a run-and-gun, up-tempo style team.It was confirmed that CDR declined an invitation to work out with the Pistons and that he was also convinced he would be selected in the middle of the first round.
He ended up going 40th overall to the New Jersey Nets.On the surface, Detroit did not appear to shine on draft night. However, after some thorough due diligence, it seems as though Joe Dumars was a step ahead of us all nothing new for the Pistons GM. . NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) – The Elba Island liquefiednatural gas terminal in Georgia is set to receive seven cargoesof the super-cooled gas in April, according to AISLive shiptracking data on Reuters. Japan The uptick from three cargoes in March marks a widerincrease of LNG to U.S.
shores as demand in Europe and Asiawanes at the same time as new production projects come online. The tankers, all sourced by BG Group (BG.L), have mostlycome from Egypt, but the last arrival, expected on April 29, isheading from Trinidad, according to the data. The 145,000-cubic-meter Maran Gas Asclepius was last seenon Wednesday anchored in the Caribbean Sea, and is expected toarrive on the same day as the Bluesky tanker from Egypt,according to the data. While the Elba Island terminal cannot offload two cargoesat once, it has the docking space to accommodate two tankers.Once an expansion is complete next year, two cargoes will beable to offload at the same time, a spokesman for the terminalsaid. These two tankers will follow the Neo Energy, expected onThursday, and the Golar Freeze, which arrived on Tuesday,according to the data. Before them, three other tankers arrived earlier in themonth.