For
“From Feared to Absurdity”
……First off I would like to thank God, if it weren’t for him I wouldn’t be standing here today. Joe Dumars for giving me this once in a lifetime opportunity to coach these players. For pulling off a trade for Allen Iverson that has a lot to do with me standing here in front of you right now. To Flip Saunders putting up the wins, but not getting it done come playoff time. To my wife for believing in me, David Stern, Mike Brown, The Thunder – a class organization – The Bobcats, The Bucks… oh my, who else do I need to thank? Mr. D for running a class organization. Chauncey Billups….who am I forgetting? Oh and like they always say… it’s all about rotations.
Rotations, Rotations, Rotations!
THANK YOU!!!!!
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Dave,
Very insightful analysis, both of them. I agree with you on the butterfly effect of AI’s trade and how this will shape the Pistons for the foreseeable future. Dumars has long talked about rebuilding the team to get past the slump of the ECF but when you have players who have developed an if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it mentality (and let’s be honest, the core of the team as it was [Rip, Sheed, Tay, and Chaunce] were rolling that way), it’s more difficult to do that. Bringing AI disrupted the system and has started to make more evident the holes in the system. In that sense, I understand what you mean and how a cold blooded analysis of this situation sees that there maybe was method to the madness in why Dumars pulled off this trade even if that meant losing some of his gravitas in front of the fans…
However, fans have their right to be irate and disappointed. I can’t blame them if what they’re fearing is the ultimate worst-case scenario: To me, missing the playoff is just worsE-case scenario… worsT-case scenario is the team (or at least anybody not named Iverson, McDyess, Hermann, or Maxiell) completely mutinying on Curry and tanking it just to prove the point. I think that’s what’s got us angry: The lack of bite, the lack of fight in what used to be a proud group of players that represents a city that needs all the bite and fight it can get (I don’t live in Detroit and I’ve never been there… but I can read English pretty well and I know of the woes in the 313). That’s what’s really killing us.
If they are to miss the playoffs, and it’s plausible at this point, I think what the fans are asking is that at least Detroit doesn’t go down without a fight… and that’s what we’re missing the most!
i honestly dont know what to think of this season. we could just as easily put together a 6 game winning streak and be right back in the thick of things. I think the problem this year is that the Pistons have become too inconsistent. Hopefully things will work themselves out by playoff time.
Stuckey obviously is not ready to lead this team or Detroit has the dumbest $#^$^& coach currently in the NBA. And don’t think Billups is the answer either, he’s getting his ass handed to him tonight by Rondo. AI needs to retire now, he takes too many shots and he doesn’t have the benefit of the Ref’s whistle any more. I see him forcing bad shots and flopping and looking to the ref for help. I think Curry will not get fired until after the season when Detroit will be near the top 10 for those precious ping pong balls. And people, please be smart, if you ever get rid of stinky curry, you don’t want to poison the Pistons with Isiah Thomas. NY is just starting to recover from his bad trades and crazy contracts to dipshits who ain’t worth dog poo in Harlem. I will give you 3 fine examples:
Fat Jerome James, Poisonous Starbury and that weak minded idiot, Eddie Curry.
FIRE CURRY… PLEASE SOMEONE OPEN JOE D’S EYES BEFORE WE END UP NOT EVEN MAKING THE PLAYOFFS .. STUCKEY NEED TO SIT FOR A WHILE UNTILL HE REMEMBERS HOW TO DO HIS JOB . I WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE SHEED ON THE BOX NOT BEHIND THE THREE POINT LINE
Getting rid of Chauncey was following that phrase: “getting rid of a star one year too early, is better than one year too late.”
Chauncey lost to the Celtics by 50 at Home, we could have done that
I was reading the Pistons mailbag on pistons.com today and i have to say that I have become fed up with him defending every move that the Pistons make this season. I used to love reading his opinions and what not, but after he defended Curry in it today saying that Joe D. has ZERO reasons to fire him, I lost it.
I’d love to see Laimbeer in there, even if it’s just for the rest of this season. It would make everything more fun to watch, no matter what happens.
curry needs the BOOT or yet i bet he havent been gettin BOOTY thats y hes fukkin up n screwing up his pathetic career , i feel so sorry 4 our team , if any1 watched the game u guys saw it in our players eyes there was no spark they werent even into the game , our bench players played better that our starters , MICHAEL CURRY YOU SUCK HAIRY NIPPLES !!!!
FUCK ALL U
Well hello to you too fuXXer69
Haha Dom…
I love this site, thanks Natalie
@Dave very well written and you make some valid points however I would like to remind you that players talk.
Basketball is a job, and if we’re going to accrue elite free agents, they will speak to current Pistons players and ask about the organization, the coaching staff. Did I mention the coaching staff?
So say you’re Chris Bosh and you have a chance to come to Detroit and play for some serious money. What the Pistons had prior to this year was a managed half court game that ran pardon the pun, like an engine. You had tenacious defense playing on the other side of the ball.
But not since LB made his way in and out of Detroit have we had a coach that knew how to manage a game.
I assure you – not a single player would vouch for the job Michael Curry is doing right now. Dumars needs to either hire a veteran assistant coach to support Curry (Terry Porter anyone?) or use the same shrewd mentality he used to dump his starting captain and tell Michael it was a failed experiment. Eddie Jordan, the guy who was able to bleed water from a rock in D.C. is available people. I’d snatch him up before Philly got a hold of him…
good one Nat!
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