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Detroit Pistons

reviewed by sperryc

The Detroit Pistons got their start in the National Basketball League (NBL) as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, named after automobile-piston magnate Fred Zollner. The Pistons joined ...
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sperryc
04/26/2008

Detroit Pistons 1

This team sucks.  If I were Flip Saunders, I would stop eating nachos at the scorers' table during playoff games, and I would take a second to watch the I-don't-give-a-sh$t style of basketball my team was playing against the Sixers in the first round.  And after I got a good look at them half-ass$ng their way toward a 20-point loss to the Sixers, I would let my team know that I wouldn't be coming to Game 4 -- that I had some leisure reading to catch up on.

I'm not trying to take anything away from the Sixers, who happen to be my team.  They played their hearts out last night (Game 3) and I truly enjoyed watching them pummel the lackadaisical Pistons.

But it just baffles me to see a team / coach who can't muster even an ounce of give-a-sh$t for the playoffs.  I think Pistons fans nationwide would be justified in turning their backs on this team, whether or not they're able to squeek their way past a vastly inferior and less-experienced Sixers team in the first round.

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PlanetaryGear commented 575 days ago.
Well, I can't agree with your star-rating but that was a brutal, yet accurate, assessment - and that perennial "we-play-better-with-our-backs-against-the-wall" mantra has grown as tiresome as it is predictable. These guys need a disciplinarian-style head coach to reign in some of their ghetto/slacker-tendencies and Saunders just doesn't have it in him- he's a very good blackboard coach and play-caller, but has been totally inept at getting his teams mentally prepared for big games- which is all the more depressing when you consider the raw talent under the employ of Detroit's starting five.

sperryc commented 575 days ago.
well said. i absolutely agree that they need a change in coaching style.

louiethe20th commented 568 days ago.
Lol. I think they were toying with the lowly Sixers. Then they dismantle the Magic in Game 1!

sperryc commented 567 days ago.
Well, that's pretty obvious. They played unequivocally bad basketball for as long as they possibly could and I feel badly for the people who paid money to watch that. You don't see the Hornets toying with anyone, although they're certainly good enough to.
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