The Piston and their six game losing streak are in Miami to take on the 29-26 Heat. Of all the games on Pistons’ current road trip, this game against Miami may be the most winnable for a seriously slumping Detroit team.
Miami has currently lost seven of their last 11 games. Dwyane Wade seems to be the only one putting up number for the Heat. He surpassed his career high by putting up 50 points against the Magic on Sunday. Stop Wade and maybe Detroit can muster a win.
More from Rip
“There’s been a whole lot of changes this year,” Hamilton said. “We’ve been changing stuff all through the season.
“For one example we just put (Antonio) McDyess back in the starting lineup and things like that. There’s been a lot of different changes. Me coming off the bench, so … there’s something different.”
When asked to clarify his comments Monday, Hamilton said: “I didn’t agree with coming off the bench, but I did it to help the team and to win games. But we haven’t won games with me doing that.” Via The Detroit Free Press
The Good/Bad and More:
- The Pistons have lost 15 of 20 since Jan. 10, including six straight for the first time since Feb. 3-17, 2004. The Pistons haven’t had a longer skid since they dropped seven in a row from Feb. 21-March 2, 2003.
- I know we talk about Curry a lot around here lately but did you know his suits are known to cause seizures? (from Need4Sheed reader Bill Pooch)
- Drew Sharp: Everyone is culpable. (thanks to Max for making sure I didn’t miss it)
- Chris McCosky blames Iverson.
- A. Sherrod Blakely – Curry is Dumars’ Guy.
- A surprising Fall from grace.
- Can’t say this in a nice way, the Pistons are screwed.
Tip off is at 7:30 and locally broadcast on FSN. If you can’t catch the game on TV, or are gearing up for the Oscars, you can listen locally at WDFN 1130 AM or follow/listen to the game at NBA.com.
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Chris McCosky hits it a 100 percent.
He’s absolutly right.
Natlie, you’re doing a fantastic job and it’s great that you’re not letting anyone slip away from the blame for the current state of the Pistons.
Keep it up!
Oh, and McCosky wouldn’t know a statistical fact if it jumped up and bit him in the nose. Sorry, but he seems to just make up his own reality.
I said that about his suits after he wore that one suit the first game. I was like what is that? But I’m not gonna bash somebody for being themselves. So forget this comment was even posted.
Rip can be really annoying sometimes, I’m sorry.
My sister used to waitress at a club that Rip would visit, and she said he was kinda rude and “upity” and didn’t tip well. Uhhhh Rip you’re better than that. All will be forgiven if you just play well and help this team get some wins. PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE!
I liked this article a lot and I think that maybe MC should read it. An off the bench AI instead of Rip would be great! http://thehoopdoctors.com/online2/2009/02/iverson-is-still-the-answer-not-the-problem/
No offense but that was just a bad article whoever wrote it does not know what they talking about. There are so many things to disagree with. Too many to list, but the thing that bugged me is that he said let everyone play to their strengths at the end of the article. Then said “Let Allen Iverson be a volume shooter, Let Rip Hamilton just move to open space and take open jumpers.” That is an oxymoron ya moron. The problem is they both can’t do what they do at the same time on the floor, and now Stuckey is struggling and many of the other bench guys don’t play or are struggling. Not to mention the other guys who are shooters who can’t get the ball cause if AI goes “volume shooter” then guys won’t have the ball to shoot. Sorry that line just bugged the crap out of me
really ever since he’s been the 6th man hes stepped it up and stcuk has stepped way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, down
our whole team is basicly deyss, jmax and rip
last time ichecked u need a whole team to win a championship….
9-9 and it looks like a Loss. No effort and energy and Prince is becoming a terrible player. No effort. I will watch nonetheless.
Notice AI just loafing down the court?
I think Tay was saying something to him for missing a defensive assignment.
Tay so far is doing okay I’d grade him around a B so far, just needs to clean it up a tiny bit.
And Sheed and Dyess are rebounding, playing good d and hitting shots which is good
a B?
I would give him a D, where is the TEAM USA Prince? I want that on the Pistons.
Why I think Team USA is the thing that corrupted tay and made his game suffer, Hanging out with those selfish superstars.
Good job Max!
Maybe that will show Amir how to not foul a guy every 5 seconds.
kwame with the no look pass to rip
Kwame and Walter…happy to see then but will the rotational madness ever end?
LOL@Steve^^^
haha, thanks Natalie!
But seriously, does anyone else think Amir has taken a step back this year?
I mean, when Beasley had the ball and Amir was on him, I seriously knew that Amir was gonna get called for the foul.
Dyess looked like he was going to cry when he was talking about getting a win…I HEART MCDYESS!!!!!!!!!!
COMPLETELY Iverson’s fault.
wait.. i thought we were talking about clobal warming and the impending recession…?
Steve it’s not taking a step back I think it just may be inconsistency, lack of time and COACHING. Get a vet in here to work with him like they did for BYNUM in LA and he’s be an allstar.
And I want to slap the F’in bandaid off Wades face. Seriously is that arrogant or is it just me who thinks its obnoxious?
Natalie, yeah that’s probably true. I also think that he’s just not used to playing against elite bigs yet. But hopefully it’s just Curry’s fault like everything else.
Lol, yeah the bandaid’s pretty ridiculous. I think I’d rather slap the Miami P.A. announcer instead. So annoying.
Yeah Natalie I’m already sick of that band aid on Nelly…I mean DWADE’s face.
Thank you both for the validation. Sorry Steve…no Blaha for you.
how come we don’t take more threes (other than Sheed.) at halftime we are 1 for 3 and the heat are 5 for 11. i think if we took more we’d make more more consistently so that when we need them for a rally or when we need to o=put a stop to the other team’s run, we can make them… just a thought… come on pistons, and Wade, Nelly looked like a fag with the band aid, and guess what, so do you!
natalie, how old are you, i’ve always been wondering
nvm that was rude
hey curry do something productive, and teach our guys how to shoot a fing free throw… anyone can learn, it’s not that hard if you practice…. i’m on my high school varsity bball team and i have an 89% free throw percentage and i just learned how to correctly take and shoot a free throw relaxed and confident this year… i was only around 70% a year ago, so i know it isn’t hard to learn
wutever, ill be back at the end of the game… p90x time
Slim…A girl doesn’t like to tell you her age, just let me say I went to high school in the late 80′s. Does that help.
And it wasn’t rude.
A woman is like fine wine, only gets better with age
LOL now you’re living up to your name PRINCE. Thank YOU!
But seriously…they better start playing some D.
dyess is the only dude that is consistant. all the other whiners can bounce with their over-inflated salaries. this isn’t a popularity contest when it comes to playing time. go earn those mega millions by doing what you’re told and play an effing sport. god… you play basketball for a living, you act like we owe YOU something. if we all were sub-par at our jobs and underacheived constantly, we would all be out of jobs.
next years roster:
coach laimbeer
stuckey
new sg
lebron
bosh
a real center
rip off the bench with dyess and tay.
go to effing work!
What’s up w/ Stuckey?
Just 3 shots tonight?
mobius shut up the roster will never ever look lke that even if we were the only team in the nba it stil wouldnt look like that just shut the hell up with ur dream of rosters its freakin annoyin get over it we are never gettin lebron or chris bosh
Stuckey is in a slump, as long as he remains there, the Pistons will struggle. You might as well start Bynum seriously. I think Bynum and Hamilton should start while Stuckey and Iverson come off the bench. We could also use Hunter a lot right now.
Finally, one of the problems with Curry, is he doesn’t reward players who step up on Defense. If someone is playing bad D, you have to take them out. We can’t let teams be scoring 50% on us every night.
Wow, Pistons get killed by the 3 pointer. Miami’s +24 from three point land. That and Wade’s making everything.
its over….
oh man this is embarrassing.
27 – 28
So does anyone else notice that the Pistons are giving up huge games to perimeter players?
Ramon Session, Nash w/ 21 assists, Wade w/ career high 16 assists.
0h my lord below .500
its official…its almost march and were under .500
eat a dick ben. obviously it won’t look like that… no shit. i was moreso ripping on the loafers we have currently.
I’m getting quite sick of putting consecutive RED scores in the sidebar schedule….ugh!
AI should not of been out there in the forth, there I said it
Defense aweful
Though many players were, can’t believe Arron Afflalo didn’t get ANY time
HAAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHHA pistons is a sadddddd & pathetic team this year wowwwwww ,, and the trophee goes to MICHAEL CURRY !!!! all i could say is f$@k this team we got more losses than wins un fukkin believable ,,,screw this team i wont even b surprised id we dnt make the playoffs
We get ripped inside and out. Our defense is horrible. horrible. I hope we can win some of these road games but I doubt with our attitude on the court that we will.
id be surprised if this team wins one of these road games .. its like were the worse team in the nba we even got beaten by the oklahoma thunder ( the worse team )
Man… we looked pretty good during the first half, but Miami kept hitting the open shots we give them.
Remember when Pistons guard closed out on shooters?
Remember when Pistons bigs moved their feet and sealed the lane?
Remember when the Pistons could get easy buckets?
Remember when their point guard notched assists and was an aggressive scoring threat?
Man. Those were the days.
wow, i have nothing to say… we’ve blamed it on every possible thing and it doesn’t get any better… maybe this team just doesn’t mix on the floor no matter what. I seriously hope we can turn it around cuz i don’t want this year to be a complete waste, hopefully we can at least get the 8th seed
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