The Pistons in Chicago to take on the 22-29 Bulls. Rodney Stuckey, who’s been held under 10 points the last 4 games, isn’t putting up same kinds of performances he did the last time these two teams met. Needless to say another 40 point game would be just the medicine the Stuckey would love to swallow.
Yes the Piston really are 27-22 losing 11 of their past 17 overall and are barley holding on in the in the Easten Conference standings a half of a game in front of Miami in the fifth spot and just and 13 games back of Cleveland. Something that Pistons fans aren’t quite used to.
The Bulls…well they are currently outside the playoff picture, and trail the division leading Cavs by 18 games.
Good News/Bad News and More:
- The Bulls are rested, they haven’t played since Saturday night.
- Allen Iverson and Will Bynum are bothered by the Flu. They are questionable for tonight’s game.
- The City of Detroit isn’t so bad after all. Suck it Chicago and Cleveland.
- Defending Michael Curry.
- The Bulls would like to get a hold of Amare too.
- Rip is doing just fine, in fact he’s thriving.
- UPDATE: AI won’t play
Tip off is at 8:30 P.M. and will be locally televised on FSN. If you can’t watch the broadcast, tune into 1130 AM WDFN The Fan. Can’t do either? Follow the game on NBA.com.
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This happened a couple seasons ago too. The flu bug kind of went through the team. Some said after he got the flu CWebb just wasn’t the same (though I doubt it made any difference in his game.
Afflalo is gonna rip em up
Wonder if Herrmann gets in today too?
You think Rip and Stuck will start bc no AI?
Showtime is starting in place of AI. THat’s only fair, can’t keep bringing Rip in and out, in and out. If he’s doing well off the bench, keep him coming off the bench.
Suck it, tee hee.
id rather have no AI at all, and just rodney stuckey and rip, we cant find minutes for the rotation of those three guards we need a role player not 3 starters…
bla bla bla.
I have to admit, that I was one of those who believed that Iverson was one of the main reasons for our lack of chemistry both offensively and defensively. However after watching the first quarter and a half of this game I have come to the conclusion as many have before me, that our lack of chemistry is in fact the fault of our very own head coach Curry. The sooner he is gone the sooner I can once again start recording pistons games, and looking forward to them as the best part of my day, until then I will spend my evenings building wooden boxes while listening to sad winter music.
Best post ever.
^^^^ I second that Fluidics…
AMEN NICHOLAS
BTW…any recommendations for sad winter music?
Lol good one..
Flu,
You realize the real reason Detroit sucks is because we stopped having a pre-game connection, right?
MC is a bit of a bum, but I am really enjoying watching the Pistons without AI. I caught a tiny glimpse of what the Pistons are really about…AI can stay out the rest of the season.
Without AI this team returns to the way they should be playing and that’s why it’s fun to watch. I never understood why everyone is so obsessed with fast break basketball and high scoring. Sure it’s fun when they get out in transition every once and a while. But Give me a grind it out defensive struggle over that style any day. If they loose tonight do they drop back down to 6th?
is there like a delay on the game?
Natalie,
This is what I’ve been listening to lately:
Neutral Milk Hotel
Belle & Sebastian
The Decemberists
The Soundtrack to The Squid & The Whale
Thastrom (Swedish)
I hope some of these help you embrace the winter months as they’ve helped me.
Yeah, Poison Ivy (AI) has got to go.
Oh good, one time we were up 94-79. With 3:34 to go we were up 100-90. Now with a minute to go, Sheed at the line up 100-99. Why do we make it so interesting? Come on Pistons, hold on!
As you can see… The reason the Pistons lose games, is not because of AI… but because of COACHING…. Im wathing the pistons give away a win to the Bulls as we speak. We had a 15 point lead, and u stop giving the ball to sheed? OKKKKKKK
SHEED WTF TURN AROUND THREE WITH 12 seconds on the shot clock wtf… FUCK WERE GONNA LOSE
Yep, sure can’t blame Ai for this one. A 15 point lead with 7:30 to go and then outscored 22-8. Oh good, a 3 pointer and a foul shot. What the heck happened?
we’re a terrible 4th quarter team WTF were up by 15 at the start let ben gordon hit a three and the foul 16.7 left… lets see what happens down by three shitttt
I have nothing to say.. there are honestly Anti-AI comments in here?
kill yourselves.
PATHETIC ! its that simple.
I’m kinda happy that we lost maybe they will fire Curry or trade some playas
pathetic. It seems like the Pistons tried to lose this game. Turnovers, stupid fouls, etc. Davidson should fire Dumars.
wow good game team
I agree with the commentators. The Chauncey trade made absolutely no sense.
How can you guys not laugh at this loss? This isn’t Detroit….apparently Chauncey took away
-Leadership
-Teamwork
-Ability to control games
-Ability to end games
-ABILITY TO STAY CALM UNDER PRESSURE
Yeah…well, I still say with AI playing Detroit would’ve been blown out. With him sitting, Detroit at least had a lead for a bit!
now will everyone stop the AI hating… were better with him than without him… i think get stuckey out of the starting lineup… he’s too wild and he’s not a PG we need a real PG
I’m a huge Pistons fan, but that doesn’t mean I can’t speak up when there are playing poorly. I am still a huge fan–but come on. What a terrible lost. There is just no excuse for this one. A complete give-away. Players, the coach–who? This is either not a well-coached team or you have players (not all of them) who just don’t care anymore.
coach curry always preaches the players to play better but otherwise he should coach better especially crunchtime.
Seriously Curry is a ball sack of a head coach.
I am a die-hard fan as well…and I must say, this was painful to watch at the end. Sheed and Rip had great games, hate to see those performances go to waste. AMARE WE NEED YOU
The reason the pistons are not winning as many games is they dont have a shot blocking threat down the stretch. Rose was in the lane all the time and that one weired name from the bucks.
If we get Chandler or camby and we would get so much better.
And that could rest sheed they are over using him.
He is 34 not 24. I dont think we throw in the flag but joe d has to make a move. I just home he doesnt throw in the white flag.
Rasheed 3pt attempt was obviously stupid but driving under the basket with 3 point deficit and 16 seconds left was fuckin hilarious.
Anger is just an extension of sadness. Right now my anger stems from the sad play of the Pistons. Goodnight all, let’s hope that Bibby doesn’t light us up again tomorrow night.
Funny that when you people don’t have AI to blame because of the loss, you try your best to find an excuse. Your more of bandwag gons instead of fans. Pathetic.
men.. how embarassing. up by 14 start of 4th. up by 10 3 mins left. lose by 5 in the end, against the BULLS!hahahaahaha they’ve got no killer instinct anymore, always being outscored in the 4th.
This is absolutely without a doubt AI’s fault hahahah. Go ahead guys blame AI for this loss too.hahaha
23 lose same as last year already
gotta stop the penetration and cut down on turnovers…also, fire Curry, trade Sheed for Amare, and fire Dumars and replace him with Isiah
Can’t blame this one on AI. Pistons looked disgusting in the 4th quarter. Stuckey, technically has hit the “rookie wall”. (he missed 57 games last year). AI and Rip didn’t work well right after the trade, but obviously it has been working lately. Start AI and Rip, bring Stuckster off the bench to provide the scoring.
And what the hell was Rasheed thinking with that 3? He trying his best to NOT get traded?
you have got to be fucking kidding me again…this is getting ridiculous and very old. We are not gonna get out of the first round of the playoffs, I call it now and I have a good couple of months to accept it and not be so shocked when it happens come playoff time. Way to go Curry and Dumars!!!!
In my eyes they are all to blame….exept Dyess, who seems like the only one that cares right now. Is anyone listening to Curry’s post game comments? He is as dumbfounded off the court as he is when he’s on the court coaching.
Go Pistons?
Hey Nat can you please tell me what coach curry is saying?
This is embarrassing. I don’t know how many double digit leads this team has blown but this loss just makes me sick. It’s become evident this team has no heart. Joe Dumars stole it from them.
“Th3 Answ3r Says:
February 10th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Funny that when you people don’t have AI to blame because of the loss, you try your best to find an excuse. Your more of bandwag gons instead of fans. Pathetic.”
Have you read the comments? they’re still blaming AI.
Fire Curry.
Trade for Amare (and Bosh)
where’s the heart?where’s the pride?where’s the passion? where’s detroit basketball?
Who do we have to give up to get Chauncey back? I’m ready and willing to see everyone let go except for Dyess and Rip. Everyone else right now is garbage. Way to go Joe D lets just destroy a solid team so we can have cap space in the HOPES of signing LeBron, not even a guarantee. The way this season is going Kwame is probably going to get a 5 year extension and that will be our big offseason signing. Just fed up, Curry needs to get canned right now.
I think we know who’s really to blame here. Walter Herrmann what did he do the entire time he was out on the floor? Nothing. No rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, he didn’t even put up a single shot. How can we win when players don’t produce.
Nat I’d like to hear Curry’s comments too
oh yeah by the way the officiating was horrendous. I mean, I know the game was dedicated to Johny Kerr who is battling prostate cancer(God Bless him, his family and hopefully he gets better), but the officiating shouldn’t be biased at all and the game should be played fair and square.
^^^Oops.Im sorry, I meant Red Kerr. Hopefully Red Kerr gets better
yeah go team wooooo.. get amare here now!
Whoever is blaming Joe Dumars for this, is dumb. Stop being nieve … The Pistons might have won games this season but would not have won a championship with Chauncey. We are going to be in a GREAT position to be a dynasty in the future! STOP LIVING IN THE PAST… We could be losing LOTS of games and suck forever… Joe Dumars is doing a GREAT job… Please, everyone, stop trying to make excuses for this team. They just arent as good as they used to . Yeah they will lose some games… But we are so much better off now that if we were to keep Chaucney. Just swollow this for a bit! Trust me, good times are close ahead.
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