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After Detroit’s 104-92 loss to the Knicks on Sunday, Michael Currey alluded to a change in the starting lineup after he again called out his starters for not bringing the energy at the start of games.
Dyess will be back on Tuesday against the Wizards, but besides the fact that Antonio may get the nod, is Stuckey in line to start?
If you’re like me, any change right now may be what this team needs to get things on track.
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December 8, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Man, reading this blog you sometimes have to question the intelligence and age of the posters. I’d be curious how many of you were following the Pistons prior to Dumars’ arrival as a player or all of you judging life based on a 2002-present run?
First, once again, the complaints against Curry need to stop or become more intelligent. Coaches do not create blowout losses, people. The idiocy that passes at times is unbelievable. The bottom line is that we have never been an unstoppable team. Never. We can be a great team if everything is in tune, but we have several hot head variables that rarely get there. Otherwise, we are just a solidly good team, which is nothing to scoff at. Sooner or later pistons fans just need to accept that as fact and then the analysis of the team’s situation will become more thoughtful.
Curry will never bring AI off the bench. And it has nothing to do with whether that might be a good idea or not. It has everything to do with the fact that he knows AI would never stand for that and would pout like a baby and be disruptive. Sure, he’d play hard during his 25 minutes on the court, but he’d otherwise be a negative force. His hands are tied and he knows it. As much as I wish AI was man enough to accept that role, he’s not and we should stop fantasizing that he is.
It’s been essentially a month. Some should buy some brown paper bags and start using them to breathe. Things aren’t so dire. Yes, I understand all the complaints about AI. Personally, I don’t think AI will ever win a championship because he doesn’t demonstrate any recognition of how impossible it is to build a team strategy around his polarizing style of play. It’s a hard thing to be told that the very thing that makes you an icon, so rich and envied by stat jocks is the very thing that will prevent you from ever getting a ring. Sooner or later he will understand. But unlike some other players, I think it will be after he’s retired.
But as I said, it’s been a month. Can we wait to the new year before we start seeing demands that Laimbeer and every ex Piston fanboys think can magically solve our problems (as if they still play) touted as what Joe needs to do right now?
December 8, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I have to defend Curry a little bit from all these posts about canning him already. I’m not saying he’s been perfect by any means, but can we realize how difficult the hand he’s been dealt is?
This summer he installs a new offense which we use all pre-season and up through the 1st two games of the regular season. Then we trade a true pg in Billups for a hybrid 1/2 in Iverson who’ll play some pg and lose McDyess for a month. Billups and AI have two completely different styles of play. With AI we have to scrap a lot of what we worked on and begin to install new offensive schemes to try and take advantage of him. All of this happens while trying to incorporate younger guys into more prominent roles.
The reason we are seeing so many different line-ups is because we didn’t have all of training camp and pre-season to experiment and see what works. Let’s give the team some time to jell with Dyess back on board. The true judge of this team will be after the all star break IMO.
December 8, 2008 at 8:40 pm
“And then what? What do I do? Sign off?”