The 10-13 #Pistons will host the 8-14 Brooklyn Nets Friday night at the Palace of Auburn Hills. The Nets, who many picked as contenders in the East, have had multiple issues this season with injuries and coaching.
Kidd, the first year head coach butted heads with former Pistons head coach Laurence Frank and basically exiled him. Reports now surfaced of a Kidd’s tirade towards Frank in a staff meeting.
“Sit the (expletive) down! I’m the coach of this (13-letter word) team! When you’re on the bench, don’t (expletive) move,” Kidd said, according to NBA.com reporter David Aldridge. The report did not offer further details of what the 13-letter word was.
The argument ultimately led to Frank being reassigned to a reduced role which Kidd described as “doing daily reports.” Via ESPN
Despite their issues Nets have started playing well of late and are on a three game winning streak.
The good: Detroit has won 15 of the last 19 games at home against Brooklyn.
The Pistons got great games from Greg Monroe and Rodney Stuckey in their OT loss to the Pelicans. Detroit’s Bigs will have to play well on both ends of the floor with Brook Lopez averaging 24 over the last four game and Garnett and Pierce stepping up their games.
The bad: The Pistons inability to close out games that they can clearly win. Detroit fought back in New Orleans only to fold in overtime.
Andre Drummond: It’s on Greg and I to figure it out. We can’t continue to let guys come in our paint and do those kinds of things to us. It’s a building process and we’re going to figure it out. It’s not going to happen for too long.” Via NBA.com
The unknown: Can Josh Smith finally make his mark in a Pistons uniform and show everyone why Joe Dumars brought him here?
Injury Report: Bynum is still listed as doubtful with his left adductor strain.
Stat: Andre Drummond still leads the NBA in field goal percentage with 62.4%
Fact: Brandon Jennings tied a career-high six steals at New Orleans.
Link: Andre Drummond rands 3rd on ESPN’s 25 and Under NBA Rankings behind Anthony Davis and Paul George.
Tip off is at 7:30 pm and will be broadcast on Fox Sports Detroit . If you can’t catch the game on TV, catch it on the radio over at 97.1 The Ticket.
“The bad: Detroit is 0-1 against the Nets this season.”
That’s not correct since we won that game in Brooklyn earlier this season 😉
wow what a great game. I mean I rather would have had us put it away in the 4th quarter but what an exciting finish, moose screwed up he was supposed to inbound it to billups but billups ended up passing it to BUCKETS who sealed it. Josh Smith made it close by knocking over Pierce, oh and there was the dunk of the year, Dre went up in the sky felt around behind him and put it in, Dre was not on this planet doing that basket. Stuckey was fantastic in the 3rd guarded Dwill, Moose got his buckets. I am not putting the problems in that last run on the Pistons, these Nets are desperate, and we stood them off. I also liked the Jennings FOUL on Dwill near the end of the game, the refs came to look at it, out of bounds on Dwill, because you can’t charge a foul on a replay, lol too bad refs got you, love it when the other team is on the end of one of these mistakes because I know we seem to get jobbed by the refs we were due for one of these. Great fun game, with a thrilling finish.
Pistons hang on and win at home. They were led by Dre and Moose, with good games off the bench from Singler and Stuck. Cheeks had Chauncey, BJ, Smith, Moose and Singler in the game for the final minute.