schedule TBD

Anyone want to predict Tay's playoff numbers? 8-3-1, pisses pants in games 2 and 4?

I think it's a Cleveland sweep, but I'm going with Cavs in 5 just because.

I'm optimistic and going with the Pistons winning a couple (both win the first two on their home court), before Lebron and the NBA put their foot down.

fuck voting for the other team to win...depressing...

there is no hope left, Cavs in 4

Cavs in 3.

Cavs in 3.

Possible. They are playing 5 on 8 (with 3 refs).

We shouldn't have had a poll.

Detroit in 7!!!!

Like Eli Stone sang: You Gotta Have Faith

I was just going to post "I wonder who is going to be the first to pick Detroit just so they can say 'I told you so' if the impossible happens?"

I was given free tickets to the first home game because of my season package. At this point, I'm debating even going. I don't feel like watching another Cavs blowout with LeBron doing some sort of pregame skit where he jacks off on the rest of his team.

Saturday 3 pm

Did we lose game 1 yet?

LeBron doing some sort of pregame skit where he jacks off on the rest of his team.



Actually he gets a rim job from each teammate while Boobie is sucking him off.

^

wonderful

Pistons in 6!


We have a chance as Varejao has been temporarily suspended by Management after he was caught blowing Lebron James and Daniel Gibson.

Is there a schedule to be posted yet?

And GB, they'd give him a bonus, not suspend him.

Iverson on postseason roster, won't play

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Allen Iverson's name will appear on the Detroit Pistons' playoff roster ... but that's only because league rules mandate Iverson's inclusion.

The NBA requires the 16 playoff teams to submit a roster including no less than 13 players by 3 p.m. Thursday. The Pistons must add Iverson because they only have 13 players under contract, two short of the league's permitted roster maximum of 15 players.

But Pistons president Joe Dumars reiterated Wednesday via e-mail that Iverson's leave from the team -- granted on April 3 after Dumars and Iverson met to address the 33-year-old's increasing frustration with a reserve role -- will remain in effect for the duration of Detroit's stay in the playoffs. Iverson becomes a free agent July 1 and is not expected back in Detroit.

The Pistons, seeded eighth in the East, meet the 66-win Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round. Teams are required to name 12 active players per game from the playoff roster, meaning that Iverson will be listed as Detroit's lone inactive player in every game after leaving the team last week.

Iverson missed 16 games between Feb. 27 and March 28 after complaining about back pain. He returned for three games starting March 29 but averaged just 7.7 points in 18.7 minutes off the Pistons' bench. He responded to an April 1 loss at New Jersey by telling reporters that he'd "rather retire before I do this again."

"I can't be effective playing this way," Iverson said that night. "I'm not used to it. It's tough for me both mentally and physically."

Iverson wound up averaging just 17.4 points in 54 games for the Pistons after his trade from Denver a week into the season, marking the first time in Iverson's 13-season career that he failed to score in the 20s.

The Pistons, though, traded Iverson more for his $20.8 million expiring contract and the minutes second-year guard Rodney Stuckey inherited from the outgoing Chauncey Billups than his ability to help Detroit remain among the East/s elite, although Dumars was initially hopeful that the gamble could work for a season after coveting Iverson for years and nearly acquiring him from Philadelphia in 2000.

If/When we win it all, does Iverson get a ring?

Something to chew on...

Iverson can chew on my fist - I'll take his ring after I knock him the fuck out

Fucker disgraced the organisation by refusing to come off the bench.

I can understand a player refusing to enter a game - MAYBE, depending on the situation and reason.

Refusing to come off the bench for the rest of the season? FUCK YOU

Who the fuck does he think he is? I hope we didn't pay him the rest of the way - dude refused to report for duty. Fuck him and his bullshit.

vPVB1COw0Gs

I think we'll beat Cleveland.

That city is just cursed to hell.

I think we'll beat Cleveland.

That city is just cursed to hell.


Ditto. I hope the Pistons go up big in game 1 just to see how quiet that damn arena is.

Really tired, so I can't tell if Wil and DBTM are messing with their predictions/hopes, but I think we're going to give Cleveland the fight of their lives and potentially take this thing. Remember, LeBron has yet to answer in the playoffs when he's really pressured (see previous losses to us, San Antonio, Boston). I don't think he has it in him to take over yet, and his motley crew isn't as good as everyone says. And Cleveland has the worst luck for a sports city.

LBJ will probably severely sprain an ankle tomorrow and be done. Mark it.

Go nuggets?

:hollinger:

Cleveland (91%) vs. Detroit (9%): Let's not waste everybody's time.

My prediction: Cavs in 4

Everybody loves The Rock.

And GD - Fuck that bald cunt - he's never played a minute of ball.

All it would take to shut up the home crowd is for Maxiell to redeem himself and smash Lebron ONCE!

I'm not asking for 6 hard fouls -just ONE. Make him eat the fucking floor just once and the crowd will go silent.

We all know he'd come back and probably play well.

But for the 30 seconds he was lying prone on the court you all know that the millions... and millions of Detroit Piston fans worldwide would BELIEVE!

If Max could deliver THAT in the playoffs I'd say he had a successful season.

Everybody loves The Rock.

And GD - Fuck that bald cunt - he's never played a minute of ball.

All it would take to shut up the home crowd is for Maxiell to redeem himself and smash Lebron ONCE!

I'm not asking for 6 hard fouls -just ONE. Make him eat the fucking floor just once and the crowd will go silent.

We all know he'd come back and probably play well.

But for the 30 seconds he was lying prone on the court you all know that the millions... and millions of Detroit Piston fans worldwide would BELIEVE!

If Max could deliver THAT in the playoffs I'd say he had a successful season.

Let's start the campaign RIGHT NOW. Pharoah for your 2009-2010 Detroit Pistons Head Coach!

My prediction for today:

1. Stuckey and Rip score 20 apiece with a combined 15 assists.

2. Tayshaun has a mediocre game: 8 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 block.

3. Rasheed goes 2-5 from three land and finishes with 12 and 9.

4. Dice drops 15 points and 14 points and makes Varejao cry, several times.

5. Bynum wreaks havoc in the second quarter and gets guys open looks off penetration, sending Cleveland into a zone, at times, in the second half.

6. It will be a close one in the end, and we'll have a chance if we execute and stay calm.

Iverson usually does a good job offensively against the shit guards cleveland has...wouldve been interesting to see if he actually played...fuck it

If Max could deliver THAT in the playoffs I'd say he had a successful season.
Is THAT why no one posted an "End Of Season" grade thread for Maxiell?

I guess I'm one of the few that thinks this series is going to be a lot more interesting than many think. Now I don't think the Pistons will win it, but you can't discount all the sub-plots in the series.

1. Pistons haven't played as the underdogs since the ship in 2004. Obviously this series is probably even more lopsided in terms of odds than the 04 one against the Lakers, but I see that as an opportunity for the 'stones...They have absolutely nothing to lose, and ZERO expectations = a dangerous team!

2. These two teams obviously have a mutual dislike for each other, in terms of the modern day NBA (=soft). How nice would it be to see the 'stones rough up LBJ (slim chance because of the 6th, 7th, and 8th men).

3. Finally, I know I'm kinda shallow and maybe unrealistic to still think this, but the Cavs just don't seem like all that to me. I can't discount their home record and the monster season LBJ had, but they just don't feel like a team you could say is going to crush everyone on their way to the finals.

Maybe this is all wishful thinking, after all a cavs sweep is highly probable, but I think it is that fact that gives me hope for a series that will last longer than many think!

I would love to see the Pistons employ a defense like the one they used against the lakers in 04, let LBJ get his with strictly one on one D and shut down everyone else = Mo Williams and Delonte West...but that would be too complicated and would cause Curry's brain to hemorrhage.

I think we'll beat Cleveland.

That city is just cursed to hell.
And Detroit isn't?

Geezus... fucking LeBron freight train.

vPVB1COw0Gs


That's why he is the greatest performer ever. His song about Sactown was awesome as well.

The biggest thing these ABC fucks can talk about is MoWilliams choice of warmup music?

The mute button is a wonderful thing...

our pathetic jumpshooting offense can't keep us in these lowscoring games...+ bron gets like 20 FTs a game

Damn, Lebron is too fucking good.

Fuck me gently with a fucking chainsaw -- halfcourt 3P shots from BronBron!

Can't :we: even put up a better fight than this? I mean, Curry is so terrible and we're not loaded maybe, but the team can do something more, right....?

Right....?

Stuckey gets stuffed going one on 35 and they call it terrific D?!

This is getting painful.

Bron had 2 more free throw attemps than the whole Pistons team, our frontcourt had 0 FTA...lmao!
maybe Curry makes some adjustments for game 2, who knows it could happen! ;)

to make adjustments you have to have a gameplan first.

Is it bad that I really don't even care that I can't watch games 2 and 3?

Anybody see anything they didn't expect?

How much valuable experience did our youngin's get?

Ignore this, I'm just bitter.

Hopefully, we're one game closer to Sheed's Piston career being over.

Our youngin's?

Stuckey, Bynum, AA, Max, Amir should play the majority of minutes.

What? You think I'm crazy?

We can play our regular rotation and lose in 4 maybe 5 games.

We can play our young bucks and get the same result, while they get the added benefit of experience.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore;_ylt=Avz6Mzye8d5G9kIh590E0pq8vLYF?gid=200 9041805

7/21 for Stuckey. I'm not sure if he's the a-hole of the game or Tayshaun.

Side note, is mixing beer with pain meds a good idea? I feel kinds funny.

I wasn't mocking you, P, I was referring to the fact that I'd rather have a few more ping pong balls than watch this shit.

Anybody see anything they didn't expect?



nope, this was as predictable as an episode of Go Diego Go, and just a painful to sit through. Mr. Anti-Humility Bron Bron is a freak and, as if he needs it, he's going to get help from the officials.

3 more games and we can put this season behind us

Hey, me too - remember I'm the guy that said we should have tanked!

Stuckey going 7-21 doen't win him asshole of the game, unless he spent the night trying to be Kobe and hogged it.

Tay taking less than 10 shots is fucking pathetic. That's 1 thing I like about Stuckey - he won't die wondering. Pity Tay and Rip and Dice don't have more of that in them.

Hopefully, we're one game closer to Sheed's Piston career being over.

that is the best way to look at this

Those fuckin announcers pouring salt in the wound when they talked about no one helped out our players on the floor. I think they said, that is a sign this teams run is done. Anyone else hear that?

to make adjustments you have to have a gameplan first.

no kidding. How many times did Van Gundy ask why they were posting up on Lebron instead of the guys who were exploiting their matchups. It just seemed like there was no rime or reason to their offensive plays. They had matchups to exploit and just did whatever else to ignore them.

They didn't play a lick of defense either. It wasn't just pick and roll defense either (that was a problem, but not all the problem). How many times did they get burned on a cut to the basket? It looked like a rec league team out there on defense (watching cutters go to the basket at will).

Did anybody else notice we got Rick Rolled on national TV at the end (about a minute left)?

Wings, Tigers and Pistons all played. If I had to pick 2 wins out of 3, I would have picked the Wings and the Tigs. Successful day, imo.

Not because I like them more, but at least they have a shot at winning it.

LeBron Taking His Game Even Higher

By Chris Broussard
ESPN The Magazine

CLEVELAND -- The voice on the radio was booming, coming at its listening audience with full force, imploring fans to enjoy this. To cast aside all fears of the dreaded 2010, to put aside all doubt that the locals can go all the way, and to simply enjoy what they are witnessing at this very moment.

The voice belonged to a Cleveland broadcaster, and he was addressing fans of the Cavaliers. But as I watched LeBron James rip the not-so-Bad Boys of Detroit to shreds 102-84 on Saturday afternoon, I realized that the words I heard on my drive from the airport to "The Q" apply to all us basketball fans:

Let's do ourselves a favor and enjoy this.

What we are watching is historic. He is not just a perennial All-Star, not merely the greatest player of his era, not even the next Kobe.

LeBron James is better than all that.

Once he starts winning rings, which could be in two months or so, he'll replace Bird as the best small forward. If he and Kobe meet in the dream Finals and the Cavaliers win, he'll forever be listed ahead of Mamba in the rankings of all-time greats. (Why? Because Kobe has the much better supporting cast, what with Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum, Lamar Odom and history's winningest coach not named Red Auerbach.)

And for as much as we hear about the great Oscar Robertson's triple-double season of 1961-62, LeBron's current numbers dwarf the Big O's when adjusted for pace of play. Back when Oscar got his 3D, teams averaged 118 points and 71 rebounds per game. Today, they average just 99 points and 41 boards.

Back in March, when ESPN's brainiacs in the Stats & Information department compared LeBron's stats to Oscar's, they told me LeBron would average 40 points, nearly 15 rebounds and 9.6 assists in the up-tempo, shot-happy game of 1961-62. Oscar, on the other hand, would average 21.7 points, 8.4 assists and 6 rebounds today.

But that's not the scary thing. This is: LeBron's getting better.

We've all seen several LeBron masterpieces. And although his 48-point performance against these same (well, sort of) Detroit Pistons in the 2007 playoffs has to go down as his all-time tour de force, what he did Saturday in Game 1 of this first-round series was about as good as it gets.

Still just 24 years old, he was so poised, so cool, so collected in dismantling Rasheed and Rip and Tay that it was ridiculous. He played 40 minutes, 52 seconds, scored 38 points on 13-of-20 shooting, grabbed eight rebounds, handled the ball enough to give out a game-high seven assists and never committed a turnover. Not one.

He let the Pistons know from jump street that their dreams of pulling off a Buster Douglas-type upset were folly by scoring 12 points in the first quarter, including a couple of dunks that had Sheed all but cowering beneath the basket.

In the second quarter, he pulled down a defensive rebound, pushed the ball up the court (you know he plays point about 60 percent of the time) and threw a left-handed, Stockton-esque pass off the bounce that found a streaking Joe Smith for an easy dunk.

Seven minutes later, he hit Zydrunas Ilgauskas in the post, cut toward the basket and caught Z's alley-oop pass at the rim for a sweet finger roll. Then, on the very next possession, he hit a 41-footer off the glass to beat the buzzer to end the half.

After the first two quarters, LeBron had 22 points, more than any other player scored the entire game.

"It's kind of scary to say this when talking about LeBron," teammate Daniel Gibson said. "But this is the time of year when the best players take it to another level."

Another level? You mean there's one beyond what we've been seeing?

Actually, we witnessed some next-level stuff Saturday. In the past, critics had wondered when LeBron would start playing the type of defense we all knew he was capable of. Of course, he has done it this season and garnered some NBA Defensive Player of the Year consideration.

Now, some are saying LeBron should post up more. At 6-foot-8, 270 pounds, with the quickness and speed of a point guard, he would be unstoppable. Last week, I asked him about his becoming a beast on the block one day.

"Sometimes being in the post gets boring," LeBron said with a laugh. "I know it can be easy, but it gets boring down there. I like being on the perimeter shaking and baking it, getting to the cup. It gets boring down there in the post sometimes. That's why sometimes I don't go down there, but every now and then, you'll see me down there."

We saw him down there a few times Saturday, and it did indeed look boring, as in, "This is so easy, it's boring me to death." Heck, it looked as though LeBron was playing against his 4-year-old son, Lil' LeBron.

Once, he posted up poor Arron Afflalo, who actually looks burly next to most players, backed him down into the paint and scored on a short jumper. Another time, he posted Walter Herrmann, who also cuts an imposing figure next to most hoopers, on the opposite block before sinking a turnaround J. Whenever the Pistons sent double-teams, LeBron picked them apart with passes that led to buckets.

But most of the time, he was out there "shaking and baking it." Obviously, that worked, too.

But what will happen when he finds just the right mix of perimeter and post? I mean, he's already on the cusp of winning a title without another elite star by his side. Even though he's neck-and-neck with Kobe for the best player in the game, I'd say he's only about 85-90 percent of the player he can be.

That's why all of us, not just Cavaliers fans, need to heed the words of the voice on the radio in Cleveland and watch closely and enjoy every time LeBron steps on the court. Because we may soon see something we've never seen before -- or at least not before or since the 1990s.

Chris Broussard is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine.

How's the lottery sounding now?

I hope Kwame puts him on his wallet one of these times. The problem is he'd have to fight the Cavs starting 5 by himself. No body has each others back on this team....e.g., Stuck fouled by Shaq and the team stands by and does nothing.

I hope Kwame puts him on his wallet one of these times. The problem is he'd have to fight the Cavs starting 5 by himself. No body has each others back on this team....e.g., Stuck fouled by Shaq and the team stands by and does nothing.

With the rest of the world?

I wonder what the "crowds" at the Palace will look like next week (or whenever game 3 is).

Let's see if they try to pass it off as a sell out.

Stuckey going 7-21 doen't win him asshole of the game, unless he spent the night trying to be Kobe and hogged it.
The asshole of the series is AI ("Asshole, I").

We're playing with a $20 million player deficit.

i just hope we show some kind of resistance in any of the 3 games left...thats all

Cavs anticipate Pistons to make defensive adjustments
By John Schuhmann, NBA.com
Posted Apr 19 2009 8:55PM

CLEVELAND -- After his 38-point, seven-assist performance in Game 1, LeBron James was asked about his aggressiveness early in the game. He said that his approach to the postseason opener was no different than his approach on any other day.

"Whatever the defense gives me, or wherever I see cracks in the defense, I try to attack it," he said.

On Saturday, he saw a lot of those cracks in the Pistons' defense. Tayshaun Prince may be one of the best defenders in the league, but he can't guard the de-facto MVP by himself. That job takes five guys working together and ready to help.

James is difficult to ignore. He's bigger than the 6-foot-8, 250 pounds that he's listed at, he's athletic as anybody in this league, he's got a personality as big as his body, and he's got the ball in his hands most of the time. NBA fans and the media can't ignore him. But somehow, the Pistons didn't pay him enough attention in Game 1.

You would think that keeping the best player on the floor (and in the world) somewhat contained would be a top priority. The Pistons have made it one in the past.

James had shot less than 42 percent from the field in 17 of the 36 games he played against the Pistons prior to Saturday. And Detroit was 12-5 in those games. But in Game 1, James made 13 of the 20 shots he took. Detroit never took him out of his rhythm, never really forced him to give up the ball consistently, and never made him pay for getting into the lane.

"Defensively, we're just not in sync with each other," Antonio McDyess admitted after the game. "We go to rotate, and there's no one helping. Guys are getting layups. We're just not that sharp on defense as we were years ago."

The Cavs expect something different in Game 2 on Tuesday (8 p.m. ET, TNT).

"They're probably going to come out pretty aggressive against him," said Mike Brown, after his team watched film and got some shooting in on Sunday.

"They might get a little bit more aggressive as far as trapping the pick-and-rolls and trying to get the ball out of his hands," Zydrunas Ilgauskas added. "That's what I would expect."

If that's the case, the Cavs needn't be too worried. In his six years in the NBA, James has seen it all when it comes to how teams defend him. And among the stars in the league, there's no one more unselfish and there's not a better passer. He trusts his teammates and is always willing to give up the ball if it's the right play.

James is as good at making plays for others as he is at making plays for himself.

"Basically, you pick your poison with him," Ilgauskas said.

And of course, this year, James' teammates are much more qualified to put the ball in the basket should you make him give it up. With the addition of Mo Williams, the Cavs have at least three shooters surrounding LeBron at all times. Even with LeBron putting up 38 on Saturday, Cleveland got solid complementary performances from Ilgauskas, Delonte West and Joe Smith.

Not only are the Cavs better offensively, but the Pistons just aren't the same defensive team that they have been in years past. So if they try to get the ball out of LeBron's hands, they will be vulnerable everywhere else on the floor. And they're just not able to help, recover and create havoc defensively like they were when they were at their best under Rick Carlisle, Larry Brown and Flip Saunders.

"We just have to have good spacing, hit an open man, move the ball, and make them pay on the back side," Ilgauskas said.

"We know what's coming. It's just how we execute."

Cavs anticipate Pistons to make defensive adjustments

They will be disappointed.

LOL@ the Cavs for forgetting who our coach is.

They will be disappointed.
HAHAHA

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They will be disappointed.

LMMFAO

I'm sensing a 20+ point loss tonight.

I hope I'm wrong.

They will be disappointed.

This really is POTY honorable mention at the very least.

Anybody want to predict tonight's technical fouls?

Only down 6. Enjoy it while you can.

the Cavs are so much better than us...its not even funny

Amir is my new favorit Piston!

only down 14 at the half, these adjustments work great!

I just feel that no one with the name "chosen 1" tattooed across his back should ever win a championship.

I also feel that the Cavs are pieces of shit for getting in our guys' faces up 15. I can only hope that karma chooses to break LeBron's leg in a grotesque fashion. I might feel a little strange getting up and yelling "yeah!" While everyone stares at me in amazement, but I'll worry about that later.

I opened up the game chat and there was only 1 person in there...wow things have changed. We are the suck.

MALO? lol

Also I'm busy with a pretend game. Chatting could be difficult.

Bad coaching game twice in a row.

Rip on lebron, double lebron, leave your man to help out on lebron, dont force lebron be a jump shooting scorer. Curry has drawn up the perfect anti-scheme. Severely unfortunate for a team good enough to beat the Cavaliers imo.

Bad coaching game twice in a row.

Rip on lebron, double lebron, leave your man to help out on lebron, dont force lebron be a jump shooting scorer. Curry has drawn up the perfect anti-scheme. Severely unfortunate for a team good enough to beat the Cavaliers imo.

Twice? I have it as the 84th in a row, and that's only because I don't know how many preseason games there were.

Also is this thread banned from the home page?

Twice? I have it as the 84th in a row, and that's only because I don't know how many preseason games there were.
realistically, no. Even it was by accident he's had some decent coaching games for a Rookie coach this year. In fact our formula for playing the cavs back when we almost beat them in Cleveland was pretty solid for 3 1/2 quarters(then he had an epiphany to put Rip on Lebron and Double him from then on). Maybe he makes good coaching calls by roll of the dice accident, but he has made them before.

Either way Curry deserves to be murdered for copying the Flip Saunders Lebron stopping scheme that's killed us for many years. No matter what offseason money we may spend to improve, Curry right now looks as if he'll off set that.

Also is this thread banned from the home page?
playoff pages never show up on the home page every year, dont ask me why.

only down 14 at the half, these adjustments work great!
We've adjusted to losing quite well, yes indeedy!

EDIT: The starters have adjusted to losing. The bench... not so much.

This was the weirdest game as far as the scoring margin yo-yo went. I was all 'shitty, down 15' then 'oh look down by 6' then 'down by 18' followed by 'down by 3!' then 'down by 12' to finish the game. I swear every time I looked away for all of 1 minute the score completely flipped.

Twice? I have it as the 84th in a row, and that's only because I don't know how many preseason games there were.

^ nice

Amir is my new favorit Piston!

fuck varajeo

Severely unfortunate for a team good enough to beat the Cavaliers imo.

The Pistons are so much better (albeit still not good) with Bynum at the point.

Is it worse to be horrible, or irrelevant?

To look at this, you wouldn't even know that they even played tonight.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dime-090422

How many empty seats and Cleveland fans will there be at the Palace on Friday night?

Let's see if Michael Curry is smart enough to seriously play the media on the FT differential. You know Phil Jackson would.

(Yeah, I'm an idiot. I used "Michael Curry" and "smart" in the same sentence.)

It's a bit hard to be consistent throughout the game when we don't have a Coach - everything I'm seeing leads me to believe that Curry is just there to use the time outs whenever he feels like having a chat to one of the guys.

Otherwise he might as well be sitting beside Joe - that's how much input I believe he's having in this series.

If Sheed isn't "Coaching" then Rip is. Maybe it's the "Core 4"? Doesn't really matter. The point is that Curry is just there to watch.

If he's not fired after this season I'd be surprised.

If he's not fired after next season I'll probably smash my pc.

Michael Curry is the second coming of Ron Rothstein.

Hopefully, he'll be the second 'going' as well.

Legler just said "the Pistons are not going to beat the best defensive team in the league with two guys, Stuckey and Bynum, that are shooting guards trying to play the point".

Just in case you guys haven't checked out the +/- from last night:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore?gid=2009042105

I though Max played pretty well last night, FWIW.

Shocking that the guys who play from the start and get into a huge deficit are the ones with the biggest minuses. So useful.

Jeezus man, it's just something fun to look at.

AI is smarter than we think. I bet he's on a beach, feet up, drinking a drink with umbrellas in it.

He's prolly getting toated in a different way.

So he might be working harder than the rest of the team, then?

lol...its a long hard walk from the condo.

effort don't lie

Does AI get playoff pay for being on the roster?

effort don't lie

It's embarrassing. Really. I'm sitting in a bar (in San Diego on the beach I might add) and the game's on 5 TV's and it's obvious I'm a Pistons fan and at some point I just shut up and went back to my drink (a Jealous Mary, a really spicy Bloody Mary, does that break my rules for drinking?).

I remember all of Europe talking about how they loved the Pistons team game and effort. This is just disgusting.

Cavs in 4, Pistons can't score...

What a bunch of crap...nice D by Rip, then a block by KB and the ball goes back to Cleveland for a hoop.

KB with a hard foul ... according to the refs.

Hard foul? Bron didn't even hit the ground. Apparently grabbing the ball is "hard" against his majesty.

At least Kwame looks like an NBA player tonight.

I'm sure Curry blows it down the stretch.

Joe Smith> Pistons

FUCK A CAVALIER!

BULLSHIT!

game.

series.

over.

That did it.

I can't even get a decent mad on. The way this series has gone so far was just so... expected.

Curry is just terrible. Somebody post a volcano pic...

Curry couldn't even dress right tonight.

I'll say it again... I feel for Dice. He deserved better than to resign with this team.

Joe Smith> Pistons
This is how I know Sheed is really hurting.

Sheed still has a grudge against Joe Smith for being chosen ahead of him, and would always make it a point of outperforming him. I was actually feeling kinda hopeful after the Cavs picked him up.

<sigh>

http://www.everyjoe.com/nbaobsessed/files/2008/01/rasheed-wallace-pointing.jpg
One more game

One more game

Literally.

Cops called to Townsend Hotel

Birmingham Police have been summoned to the Townsend Hotel where the Cavaliers are staying during their time in Detroit. Apparently, the Cavaliers were involved in a massive gang-bang and quite a few pedestrians called in the disturbance. Lebron wouldn't pull out of Varejao and had to be tasered. Guard Mo Williams was beaten as he was told to stop performing fellatio on Zydrunas Ilgauskas but did not stop. Daniel Gibson, Wally Szczerbiak, Joe Smith and Ben Wallace were all arrested for running trains on Mike Borwn and the Cavaliers Coaching Staff. Delonte West was caught solicitating officer John Davis.

The situation got worse. As an unclothed Lebron James was being placed in the Squad car, he escaped to Ferndale, Michigan where he jumped over a 15 foot barricade to avoid capture.

This could turn the tide.

Sadly enough... I don't think the Cavs missing their top 8 players could turn this series.

...and while the Cavs were gangbanging, the Pistons were limp-dicked.

Between the third and fourth quarters, an altercation led to one fan landing the hardest punch at The Palace since the infamous 2004 brawl in which the Indiana Pacers tussled with the Pistons and their fans. James and the Cavs were talking about the fight after the game.


Detroit has advanced to at least the Eastern Conference finals the previous six seasons -- the longest such streak in the NBA since the Los Angeles Lakers' run two decades ago -- but now it's an eighth-seeded team with virtually no chance to survive the first round.

"This is killing me," Richard Hamilton said. "I can't even lie."

Curry said before the game the Pistons needed both Rasheed Wallace and Tayshaun Prince to play well to have a chance to win, and neither did.

The 34-year-old Wallace scored just five points, looking past his prime, banged up and uninterested. Prince scored seven points in the first quarter and was held scoreless the rest of the game, laboring with a sore back.

"Tay is not going to say anything about his back," Curry said. "But I could tell as the game went on he wasn't moving as well."

Hamilton had 15 points, eight rebounds and six assists, while Rodney Stuckey contributed 12 points and five assists.

Antonio McDyess, who had eight points and eight rebounds, lamented the fact that his team went through the motions when it lost the first two games of the series on the road by an average of 15 points.

Wallace and McDyess declined comment after the game.

And again Tay is a non-factor offensively.

It's great that his D is good and all but if the guy can't score 10 fucking points he's useless.

In the league today you need scoring from every position. We get it from 2 guys if we're lucky. It's no wonder many here (myself included) wanted us to miss the playoffs.

Missing the playoffs would have likely seen Curry fired (it's still likely, but if we missed the post-season I would imagine his cahces of returning would be very slim).

Missing the playoffs would have prevented us from seeing this weak Cav team rip us apart.

Missing the playoffs would have made us care about the Lottery!

Now, Curry might be back, we have to witness our team get fucked royally by the Cavs and we don't care about the Lottery!

What a shitty way to start an off-season that was supposed to be full of hope.

Tay has been hurt, thats an excuse...but if Tay can't use his postup moves, and obvisiously he can't vs Bron, he's bascially just another guy who can knock down an open jumper on the perimeter from time to time, thats it...
i agree its time to move Tay!
but i disagree about missing the playoffs part, i think Currys chances to come back are slimmer right now after the Cavs manhandeld the Pistons, and sweep them on sunday

Hopefully tomorrow is the last game for Rasheed as a Piston.

Thanks for the ring, but it's time for you to go now.

IF we missed the playoffs Joe would have had a ready made excuse to dump Curry - "Missing the playoffs is unacceptable".

So what does Joe say now that we made it?

Tay was injured, Iverson was "injured", Cleveland was on fire etc. I can hear him now, "We did our best in difficult circumstances".

Fuck that shit.

Fire Curry, trade Tay, spend, spend, spend.

Surely we could get a reasonable SF for less than $6 million?

I'm pretty convinced that Rip is the only dude worth keeping. Well...him and Will. 90% of this team is overvalued, and that's an incredibly sad statistic.

I don't think Dice is overvalued. He performs splendidly for the vet's minimum.

Fire Curry, trade Tay, spend, spend, spend.

Surely we could get a reasonable SF for less than $6 million?

How do you get an upgrade at that position spending less than $6 million?

It's gonna be halftime before they get around to airing this on ABC.

Pistons with a championship ring are shooting 1 for 12

I just switched to it for a sec and the Bulls game is on. Wassup?

nvm...ot...2 of them.

It's on ESPN2 for the moment.

Thanks Mxy.

Now I'm kind of caught up in the Bulls game.

Noah with a dumb foul there.

Pistons with a 2004 ring: 2-16
Pistons without a 2004 ring: 15-30

I'm sorry my mind is on football and baseball...what exactly is that ^?

Nice three Sheed and Tay

Make that bitch LeBron cry, Sheed -- that's being useful.

Mxy, what is the 2-16, 3-17 or something in post 137?

Shooting. Our players without a ring are better than the ones that have rings.

Thanks Mo.

So do we walk off the court like Zeke did to the Bulls? Or do we go shake and hug these bitches?

Mad props if they offer AI to the Cavs as human sacrifice.

3 for 24 shooting from Pistons with a ring
28 for 54 shooting from Pistons without a ring

^ Wait...what? j/k

Good riddance to this season. Is it possible to mail it in any worse than Sheed?

i really hope Dice will get a ring somewhere the next 2 years or so he's got left playing basketball, the man deserved more than this...

Really glad we made the playoffs to be the only team swept...

i think its better to be swept than miss the playoffs by a game or two...it hurts for sure, but playing 4 times in row vs one of the best team in the NBA right now really showed on what players you can count on for the future and what needs to be fixed...keep Stuckey, Afflalo, Bynum, Kwame maybe RIP...the rest is too old or lacks the talent to compete on the highest level...

http://wtfdetroit.com/forums/image.php?u=413&dateline=1238689629

I don't think Dice is overvalued. He performs splendidly for the vet's minimum.
Sorry, I forgot about Dice. Dude is Rock of Gibraltar.

http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/CLEDET_090426_quotes.html?rss=true

(On how it is different then when he was in Detroit) “I think it is a tough situation they are in now, but it isn’t my situation anymore. You know that they are going to reevaluate guys and they are trying to get younger, but there are times that you really just can’t tell. I just think that it is a transition period for them right now. Like I always said, it’s not my problem anymore.”
Word.

Let the rebuilding really begin.

Time to wheel and deal, Joe

Never before has he had so many options.

Apparently it's a weak Draft and teams will be looking to get out of it.

He has almost $20 million in cap space, which he's never really had before

He has some tradeable assets (picks, expirings) still to work with...

I can't wait to see what approach he takes.