Go to www.espn.com get to the NBA section, and watch the video of Bucher about the Pistons.


Saying i'm pissed isn't even the right word.


This is the leagues attempt to styme Detroit's team concept, and try and make the league ego(star) centric.


FUCK ALL WHO OPPOSE THE MACHINE.

WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT PEOPLE.

....or maybe theyre just tired of the complaining?

BTW, I think the message has already been sent with the pseudo-technicals.

wow, just wow....we all know the guys complain to much....they should let the coach complain and stfu and play, but this is just ridiculous....this special Pistons treatment wont help us in the playoffs, its difficult to win it all with biased refs...

We do complain too much though.

i sorta know what he's talking about. hell I'm sick of the complaining. On other teams you maybe have one or two coddled superstars who complain non-stop. On ours its all five starters. it is annoying.

We do complain too much though.
thats still bullshit IMO. the old"guilty by accusation" bias. I said once before and i'll say it again. Miami complains way more than us, as does several other teams in this league. Shit, skiles will spend a whole game complaining then call us whiners. I think its other teams way of trying to get an edge with the officials much like Cuban saying that we and the spurs should get called for more fouls.

Wade gets to the foul line 20+ times and will ride the officials as will shaq if they dare call a charge on his shoulder dips and elbows to the face.. yet we are "whiners". bspn

We do complain too much though.
thats still bullshit IMO. the old"guilty by accusation" bias. I said once before and i'll say it again. Miami complains way more than us, as does several other teams in this league. Shit, skiles will spend a whole game complaining then call us whiners. I think its other teams way of trying to get an edge with the officials much like Cuban saying that we and the spurs should get called for more fouls.

Wade gets to the foul line 20+ times and will ride the officials as will shaq if they dare call a charge on his shoulder dips and elbows to the face.. yet we are "whiners". bspn

Just because some other team complains more than us doesn't mean we are not whiners.

We bitch and moan with the best of them - however All-Stars are given more leeway, and we had four.

That being said, I'm not really hating this move. It would put the chip back on our shoulder. The NBA is out to get us, lets fuck up their plans sorta deal. We just need to make sure we direct our anger in the right direction - this is key. Otherwise we could lose focus, play out of control and go down in a blaze of glory, but go down nonetheless.

We do complain too much though.
thats still bullshit IMO. the old"guilty by accusation" bias. I said once before and i'll say it again. Miami complains way more than us, as does several other teams in this league. Shit, skiles will spend a whole game complaining then call us whiners. I think its other teams way of trying to get an edge with the officials much like Cuban saying that we and the spurs should get called for more fouls.

Wade gets to the foul line 20+ times and will ride the officials as will shaq if they dare call a charge on his shoulder dips and elbows to the face.. yet we are "whiners". bspn

Just because some other team complains more than us doesn't mean we are not whiners.
No but it does mean we shouldnt be singled out. And it does mean we arent the "whiners of the league" as we are painted to be as a move to discredit us in any screw over. I mean look at the bigger picture. if wade gets breathed on and we get mad about it, techs will be passed out like crazy on a false stigma that we are the biggest whiners in the league. B fucking S.

LOL...i just saw it. Subliminal Intimidation on the officials? [smilie=applause.gi: ...this garbage doesnt end. On top of that Bucher gives Miami a scheduling loss excuse just in case we smash them. [smilie=baby.gif]

The best part is when he said the Pistons are getting away with it all year..... Since when? the past couple of months, they've had a ton of techs.

We cant even laugh. How can we get away with alot of things. Thats simply rediculous. We bitch though...you cant say that. BUT.. its nothing new. WE had this same convo last year. Im not at all worried about this at all. Fuck it. We will step it up for the playoffs. And i hope at some point we will just stop talking to the officials entirely.

the league is looking into it? that's BS. they freaking retracted technical fouls on Sheed. isn't that proof enough that some calls have been BS and the officials were unfairly targetting guys like Sheed?

i do think this is a case of league bowing to nutbags like Skiles who probably wrote formal complaints to the NBA front office.

Little help? I don't see the vid.

Little help? I don't see the vid.

Seconded. I would love to chime in here, but I have no idea what you guys are talking about....

Little help? I don't see the vid.

Seconded. I would love to chime in here, but I have no idea what you guys are talking about....
go to the nba sextion of espn and it should be a video option on the upper right. it might be further down the list now.

I don't get videos at work.

I don't get videos at work.
as well you shouldnt. it distracts from the now.

BAN RORSCHACH!

I couldn't find it either, however I was on the site looking for it and the audio queued automatically it seemed so I got a listen.

the video is up in the right corner way far right way up top corner. either way, Ric bucher said that the Pistons were in trouble fending Dallas and SA off for the best record, Also said that we were the biggest whiners in the league and that the league is going to take action, because its a subliminal intimidation on our parts. didn't specify when, but almost hinted at the refs hating on us in the playoffs, then proceeded to give pre-gamescheduling loss excuses for miami.

try this:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/index

on the right, where all the videos are, scroll down to "Pistons secure tie for central division" with Bucher's tiny head next to it.

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