Sheed said that after the game today when asked about game 4.

Pity Sheed used it so early in the playoffs. Oh well.

I'm sure he has more comin. He used 2 last year.

I'm sure he has more comin. He used 2 last year.
The one against Miami wasn't a guarensheed. Even Sheed said it wasn't a guarentee.

Sheed said he can only use one guarensheed per season.

Sounded like one to me.

Anyways, guess game 4 is ours

Wallace vows Pistons will win Game 4
Sunday, May 14, 2006 By JOSH WEIR
http://www.newspagedesigner.com/users/1346/thumb_Guaransheed.jpg
CLEVELAND - Rasheed Wallace let his play do most of the talking during
the first two games of the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

After Saturday’s Game 3 — an 86-77 Cleveland win in which his game remained
relatively quiet — Detroit’s bombastic forward opened his mouth fully.

“Oh, we going to bust their ass,” Wallace said about Monday’s Game 4 at The Q,
after the Cavs cut their deficit to 2-1 in the best-of-seven series. “I’ll tell you that now.
That’s a given.”When asked if that was a guarantee, Wallace repeated what he previously
said and later took it a step further.

“Yeah, it’s definitely a five-game series,” he said. “They beat us today, so were going to
go ahead, beat (them) Monday, (and) take it back to Detroit. ...
Monday is their last game in this building for this season.”

Cleveland veteran point guard Eric Snow just smiled when informed of Wallace’s comments.
“That’s Rasheed,” the McKinley High School grad said. “Rasheed’s always the guy that’s
going to make predictions and be that spark plug for the team. ... I’ve come to expect that from him.

“We can’t worry about what they’re saying. We just have to focus on the next game.”
Most of the Pistons gave Cleveland credit for the win.

Detroit shot just 39.4 percent and turned it over 16 times on Saturday after shooting 47
percent and committing a combined 18 turnovers in the first two games of the series.
However, the Pistons couldn’t ignore the fact that they led by 10 midway through the
third quarter, at which time Cleveland looked like it was on life support.

“We lost that game ourselves. We let one slip away,” Detroit reserve forward Antonio
McDyess said. “(There were) a couple a plays where they gained momentum, and we
kind of lost focus.” That’s a rarity for the boys from Motown. They’re usually the tougher,
more poised team that watches the opponent wilt down the stretch.

But it was the Pistons committing bad turnovers and allowing LeBron James to get right to the
rim in the fourth quarter. Wallace lost his cool late in the game when he shed Cavs’ forward
Anderson Varejao with an elbow, although Wallace had a different take about the play.

“It wasn’t chippy at all,” he said. “The whistle already blew, and he’s still trying to push ...
I just moved my arm out of the way.” Varejao, who scored a career playoff-high 16 points, was
asked afterward if he got under the skin of Wallace. “I don’t know, I just try to do my job,” the
second-year player from Brazil said. “I just try to play hard for my team against everybody.”

Detroit point guard Chauncey Billups, who had 20 points Saturday, felt like Wallace didn’t get
aggressive until it was too late. Wallace averaged 19.5 points in the first two games, including
a team-high 29 in Game 2. On Saturday he registered just 11 points on 3-of-11 shooting and
six rebounds and one blocked shot.

It also was clear the 11-year pro wasn’t going to lose much sleep over it.

“They did what they were supposed to do, as far as beating us in Game 3. That’s it, though,”
Wallace said. “We still going to win this series. We ain’t letting one game discourage us.”

Reach Repository sports writer Josh Weir
at (330) 580-8426 or e-mail:
josh.weir@cantonrep.com

Even if Sheed didnt make this comment, anyone really think that the cavs were going to win another game in this series?

He said the same thing after game 3 in Milwaukee. Something like "they got their game. Game 4 will be the last game they play here this year"

Yeah, but thats Milwaukee. As long as Cleaveland has LeBron James people are going to make a bigger deal out of it.

After reading this sheed will definately have a change of heart.
http://www.yaysports.com/nba/images/Detroit%20Pistons.png

Has Rasheed ever guaranteed against a team like the Spurs? It seems like that all his guarantees come against mediocre team.[smilie=shrug smile:

The Pacers at 61-21 were hardly a "mediocre team"...

Has Rasheed ever guaranteed against a team like the Spurs? It seems like that all his guarantees come against mediocre team.[smilie=shrug smile:
damnn you had no respect for indy's record:p

i'm going to make this the OGT for games 4-5. GuaranSHEED, baby.

This is quality shit, especially if it keeps working.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2006/news/story?id=2444955


Wallace: Pistons will 'bust their [butts]' in Game 4

Associated Press

CLEVELAND -- The Detroit Pistons will win Game 4 -- guaran-Sheed.

One day after an 86-77 loss to the Cavaliers cut Detroit's series lead in half, forward Rasheed Wallace, the irrepressible motor mouth from the Motor City, boldly declared the Pistons would win Game 4.

On top of that, Wallace proclaimed the best-of-seven series over.

Rasheed Wallace declared Sunday the Pistons would defeat the Cavs in Game 4 on Monday.

"I know we're going to win it," Wallace said sitting on the scorer's table following Sunday practice at Quicken Loans Arena. "We're going to bust their . Tomorrow night is the last game here in this building for this year."

Sheesh, Sheed. Anything else big fella?

[B]"Y'all can quote me, put it back page, front page, whatever," Wallace said. "They can send whoever they want to send. I know the crew I think they're going to send. But it don't matter. I know we can do it, and they know we can do it. We know what we've got to do."

Although he said he respects the Cavs, Wallace isn't worried about giving them any motivation.

"It ain't bulletin board material, it's a fact," he said bluntly. "They can put it on the bulletin board. They can put it on a video. I don't care. I know what we're capable of doing, that's all that it is."

Wallace has gone prognosticator before in the playoffs, placing his neck on the line to inspire his teammates. And, the Pistons have responded with a win every time.

"That's what we do," Wallace said.

The Pistons, up 2-1 in the series, will have to take better care of the ball and do more to contain LeBron James or they'll have make another trip to Ohio. Game 5 is Wednesday night in Auburn Hills, Mich.

James, who scored 15 points in the fourth on Saturday while recording his second triple-double in his first playoffs, laughed off Wallace's boasts.

"That's Rasheed," James said. "Every playoffs, you know you're going to get at least one good quote out of him. We can't get caught up in that."

The Pistons are accustomed to hearing Wallace spout off. And, they know when he does, they'd better come through.

"You have to go out there and play even harder and get a win for him," Richard Hamilton said. "We have to have his back, do what we do, and get a win."

The Cavaliers' hopes rest with James, who in Game 3 had perhaps his finest all-around 48 minutes this season.

Although tempted to take over, James didn't until he had no other choice. For three quarters, he sat back and let things unfold before him. He entered the final 12 minutes with just six points on 3-of-10 shooting before seizing the game.

With a Wilt Chamberlain-like finger roll, James gave the Cavs their first lead of the second half, and over the next 6:36, he scored 11 with two assists -- the last to Damon Jones for a 3-point dagger to put Cleveland ahead by 10.

"It's the best game he's played," Cavs forward Donyell Marshall said. "He didn't press the issue. He found people, he rebounded and he scored when he needed to score."

Other than James, the Pistons' biggest problem was, well, the Pistons.

They made 17 turnovers -- only one less than their combined total in the series' first two games -- and missed shots that were ripped the nets in Games 1 and 2. For all their playoff experience, the Pistons looked like postseason newcomers down the stretch.

However, coach Flip Saunders isn't too concerned.

"It's a matter of getting back to meat-and-potatoes basketball," he said. "We tried to do too much. We played out of character."

While Wallace may have been the only Detroit player to publicly predict a victory in Game 4, the Pistons, who are 6-0 in Game 4s the past two seasons, are equally confident they still control the series.

Chauncey Billups praised the Cavs for winning a Detroit-style, low-scoring game. Cleveland had to change its game plan to do so. Don't look for the Pistons to make major adjustments.

"Nothing's got to change," Billups said. "We just have to be a little more disciplined in what we're doing. We don't have to change none of our Xs and Os. We just have to not take any chances."

Wallace doesn't see his prediction as risky. He relishes the role of villain, and will be treated with the usual disdain by Cleveland fans, who are still angry at him for a flagrant foul against center Zydrunas Ilgauskas this season.

Wallace isn't afraid of the Cavs, or anyone else.

"There's only one team out there, two teams tops, that can really give us that good challenge that it's like, 'All right, we know we can't make no mistakes against those teams,"' he said.

The Cavaliers aren't one?

"Nah," he said.

I'll go with 94-82 Pistons.

letsbusttheirasses.

Z's new name :p "Someweakass Illgaskus"

Beat lebrons until he cant keep his face str8

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83-81 Pistons.

it's gaaaame time!!!

if you're reading this, get yo ass in the chatroom and let's trash the Cavs!!


CHATROOM (http://wtfdetroit.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php)

Someone needs to foul LeBron hard. He's becoming bitchmade like D-Wade.

Someone needs to foul LeBron hard. He's becoming bitchmade like D-Wade.

I agree...he thinks he has earned something...you haven't earned anything till you have a ring on your finger.

Has anyone noticed he likes to push and flick people off of him with the look on his face like "wtf are you doing, I'm the King, get away from me you peasant"

Refs missed that foot on the out of bounds line on that last push off shot at the end of the quarter.

It's like we stepped into bizarro world.

Anderson Varejao is the new Ben Wallace and Ben Wallace is the new Varejao.

Billups waits until the last 2 minutes of the game to make himself a part of the offense?

The Pistons were getting no easy shots tonight, credit the Cavs defense. The Pistons deserved to lose, maybe they will quit acting cocky and taking everyone not named San Antonio for granted.

dynasty my ass

Someone needs to foul LeBron hard. He's becoming bitchmade like D-Wade.

I agree. If they're gonna call a foul on those drives no matter what, we might as well earn them.

Fuck you, Sheed.

Next time, shut your fucking mouth.

No, its not even Sheed. Fuck Flip Saunders. Fuck him. He's a fucking idiot. Mo Fucking Evans in the last 2 minutes? He puts in Mo Fucking Evans? When you have, Delk & Dyess sitting on the bench? Fuck that bull shit.

And fuck Billups for not even attempting to get involved until it was too late

Yikes. This series has changed complexion ever so slightly from the first two games.

Will the Pistons we grew to love these past 3+ seasons care to show up?

No, its not even Sheed. Fuck Flip Saunders. Fuck him. He's a fucking idiot. Mo Fucking Evans in the last 2 minutes? He puts in Mo Fucking Evans? When you have, Delk & Dyess sitting on the bench? Fuck that bull shit.



SHeed and Dice didnt deserve to be on the floor. If they had, we would have lost by 10 instead of 1.

In case you hadn't noticed, We started STOPPING the Cavs when Mo came into the game. Sheed and DIce were just letting people walk in for layups.

3-13?

Seriously, with 2 scrubs guarding him, Sheed is 3-13?

Fuck him.

Games 1 and 2 were at a good pace. I don't like the pace of the last 2 games and all this talk of Pistons pace in the last 2 games.

Pistons won't shoot this bad again (or atleast I really hope not).

It was a tough loss but I still can't see Pistons losing this series and that 4 days off gave LeBron a good rest and was perfect for the cavs. Atleast no more long breaks.

Yeah, but Mo Evans?


I was at school, so I assume the reason Sheed didnt go back in is because Kander said he couldnt go on the ankle. Alls I know is Evans had 0 business being out there. Dice is still a better option any fucking day of the week. Or hell, put in Tony Delk.

No, its not even Sheed. Fuck Flip Saunders. Fuck him. He's a fucking idiot. Mo Fucking Evans in the last 2 minutes? He puts in Mo Fucking Evans? When you have, Delk & Dyess sitting on the bench? Fuck that bull shit.

And fuck Billups for not even attempting to get involved until it was too late

Evans actually played solid.

And with the way Dyess and Sheed were playing, they didn't deserve to be in the game.

Mo evans played better defense at PF in the last 3 minutes than Sheed did the entire game.

That's fucking sad to say, but its true.

We lost the game because Rip missed a 2-footer and drove into two people and forced a bad shot.

We did NOT, however, lose the game because of Mo Evans. He did his job. Mo was brought in to stop Lebron's penetration, and he did that. He did his job, it was a GOOD adjustment, end of story.

We played 3 on 5 offense out there when Evans was on the floor. Defense wasnt the issue.

Evans stood in the corner and waited for someone to shoot so he could attempt to crash the boards.

I agree about the RIP 2 footer miss. We could have avoided that if we had another shooter on the floor. You're already one shooter down with Ben out there. Why put your self in that same hole twice?

We played 3 on 5 offense out there when Evans was on the floor. Defense wasnt the issue.

...and we only had 2 guys playing defense the entire 4th quarter.

If we had sheed in there to clank more jumpers, we'd be in the same situation we were in, except we'd be down 10 in the last minute instead of 1.

We played 3 on 5 offense out there when Evans was on the floor. Defense wasnt the issue.

...and we only had 2 guys playing defense the entire 4th quarter.

If we had sheed in there to clank more jumpers, we'd be in the same situation we were in, except we'd be down 10 in the last minute instead of 1.
Yet we still some how held them to 21 in the 4th while we only scored 13. 13 fucking points in the 4th! That is unimaginable. Thats a rec league score.

Like I said, I dont think the D was the issue. The pistons needed another shooter on the floor and Mo Evans isnt that guy. I'm not saying he did a bad job out there. I thought he was OK. I'm blaming Flip for having him in the game when we should have had another shooter. Tony Delk should have been on the floor.

Delk needs more minutes our offense was horrible the last 2 games...i still cant believe we lost 2 games vs the cavs and the Heat will win in 5...this suckz

They stopped making James work on the defensive end. Its as simple as that.

They stopped making James work on the defensive end. Its as simple as that.

I agree with that

Not nearly enough post-ups with Tay vs Lebron

I don't know if I've ever been less angry about a Pistons playoff loss.
Strange. I guess it's because I get to watch more Pistons basketball.
I don't have to play 6 games against the Cavs. My Pistons do.
Hopefully they wake the fuck up. Other than that, I'm chillin.

i'd have to put the blame on flip this time. is there a rule that we're not allowed to score more than 80 on the road?

why keep our offense in 1st gear? we were dominant this year when we had the transition game going. i dont care if it gets the crowd into it. i dont care if it lets the cavs warm up. we have the best transition game in the league, use it--especially when the pistons are ice cold.

he also still has no clue how to use dyess. dyess and sheed were great last year together, killing the other teams with their 15 ft j's. today, i would have guessed they'd never played together before.

ps what's sheed's status?

This game was a catastrophe from the get-go. Sheed runs his yap and comes out icy cold. Then he turns his ankle, taking away his athleticism and intensity (there goes the TILT). His icy shooting rubs off on the rest of the Pistons, and we struggle to make a basket the entire game. (how the hell did Rip get 30? I can remember like 2 or 3 makes.)

So Sheed is banged up, we got McDyess, so we're straight right? NOPE. Talk about bitch made! Dyess looked like a middle school kid playing with the Varsity for the first time. 0 POINTS! Total deer in headlights.

On offense, we didn't run anything, just pick and roll, and force up a contested jumper as the shot clock winds down. Chauncey didn't do shit all night. For some reason Ben thinks he sucks so bad, he can't even dunk the ball wide open in the lane, so he "shovels" the ball to Rip twice for much tougher shots.

And why is Mo Evans in the game at the end? He didn't cost us the game, but his flagrant FT miss was pretty big. I know I ripped McDyess, but he is a much better option, or at least go with Delk (as you guys said before).

I'm getting really scared. Sheed's ankle is in really rough shape, and game 5 in the D is going to be really tough. If we lose that one, we're staring at elimination in game 6 at the "Q", which is quickly becoming our house of horrors. GAME 5 IS A MUST WIN.

Though the Pistons lost the game and not the refs, I am very sick of the double standard star system. You're going to say that Rip was hit less hard on that final shot than LeBron is touched every time he gets a foul call? It shouldn't have been to that point anyway, but it angered me nonetheless.


Plus I didn't know that LeBron gets an extra 2 inches on the sideline without calling it out. (See: final play of first half.)

Sheed said his ankle feels just fine. He says he's ready to go for game 5.

Of course, he also guarenteed the series....again....

They held serve with us- good for them. They still ain't gonna win no damn series against us.

Big Ben just let loose a cussing tirade.

They actually had to cut him off because there was no point. Every word was being bleeped out.

The gist of it was, "Our whole team stunk the joint up. Players, coaches, everybody."

At least, thats the only words that got through the censors....

We need to go back to what we did in game one: spread the floor and beat them with open jumpers.

We tried to slow it down in cleveland and we sucked. They have one weapon, we have 6-7 weapons. They cant beat us in a high scoring game.

Good for him.

Let him cuss all of them out. Every one of them played like shit tonight. The fans should be able to cuss them out.


And I still agree with Sheed. Cleaveland isnt winning the series, the pistons just made it harder on them selvs.


As for Motowns double standards, the NBA wants to keep James in it for as long as possable. As long as it looks like the pistons and spurs are going to make it to the finals again, the NBA is going to try and milk guys like James and Wade for as long as they can.

me=afraid

Dude, look at it this way, at worse, you get to sell tickets to a game 7.







(you are the ticket dude right?)

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Sheed said his ankle feels just fine. He says he's ready to go for game 5.

Of course, he also guarenteed the series....again....

They held serve with us- good for them. They still ain't gonna win no damn series against us.I don't know. At some point, Sheed starts to sound like Monty Python's black knight.

I'm no longer a believer that, in this series, a low final score favors us. Or that Dice can play anything resembling defense. Frustrating. Sheed should have been on the floor for that last offensive play. Would have opened up space for Rip in the lane.

We've got ourselves a series now.

im sad by this. but i still cant see how we dont prevail. what scares me more is how cleveland will grow in the years to come, i believe in lebron now but will always mock the 'witness' shite. hopefully by the next game my b-day ben wallace inflatable defender will be here, and we will police the game together via tv. the only thing i wonder is if i should change my pc wallpaper back... i had a ben one on til they went on their 'slide' during the season, so i put it back. they started playing fine again, then i changed it right before these two losses. i try not to be too superficial but thats kinda scary.

While we still play great defense, I agree an up-tempo game is much, MUCH better.

This sucks.

While I still am not overly concerned about this series, there are too many factors that the Pistons don't control for anyone to be overly confident at this point (Cav's rising confidence, LeBron being "the Chosen One" in every way, Sheed's ankle, etc.). The LeBron thing is sort of why I would have preferred to play the Wizards, he's got a lot of people banking on his success, and in some ways it seems like they are trying to accellerate his learning curve, if you know what I mean.

If you ever want to see evidence of homecourt advantage being a big deal, see Anderson Varejo taking a charge from an MVP candidate, and in a span of about 30 seconds, the refs then swallow their whistles when he hacks Rip.

And am I the only one left wondering why the hell we even signed Dale Davis if he's going to keep getting DNP's even when Sheed goes down? I mean, playing Mo Evans at PF for defensive purposes? I know, I know, Dale's the new "Shaq Stopper", bleh! So much for the "they are just saving him for the playoffs" line of thinking. Dude needs to be out there patrolling the paint and setting hard-ass screens whenever Ben is resting, especially when Sheed is out too.

Flip's going to need to make some adjustments if he wants this "offensive genius" label to stick, 'cause to me, this looks like the same old stagnant offense right now, just add about 3x the jumpshots/3 point attempts.

In the end, they still need to beat us at the Palace, which for the love of all that is holy, shouldn't happen. Playing these extra games just exposes us to more potential injuries and gives our next opponent more time to rest and scout/prepare for us.

I'm bitter.

Pace of the game, slow or fast hardly matters. This is the same team that made a living out of grinding it out. Really the bottom line here is the Pistons took the Cavs for granted after the first two games and thought they would win by showing up. Flips play calling is also not an issue.

There was very little passion, energy or emotion, besides Sheed talking. Rip was fairly aggressive out there but outside of him everyone else looked like they just woke up from a nap.

The Cavs played damn good defense and didn't allow us to get open looks but then again it's not like we were trying to get open looks. I really can't tell you what they were trying to do offensively out there.

I could analyze this thing 6 days to Sunday but if they just change there attitude and take the Cavs serious they go back to winning by a dozen or more.

The good news is the next game is at home and like Glenn said Anderson Varejao shouldn't be Ben Wallace on the road.

The Pistons could lose tomorrow and I wouldn't be worried. The same squad has had to play against better teams and from worse positions and made it through. They clearly didn't play that well yesterday, it happens, especially with this team.

I fucking hate TNT with a passion. All they do is focus on the "star". Did anyone realize that Rip had 30 focking points last night? I barely did. LeBron....did.....NOTHING!!@# And yet after every commercial break, after every time out, TNT's cameras would focus directly on LeBron. What the hell did he do? He should've made 30 free throws, with the way they were calling the game, but he ended up with 21. Seriously, if you paused the game long enough so I could take several smoke breaks, I think I can score 21 if I got a foul called on every shot. He did nothing to help his team win. He missed a last second shot (choked) and missed a free throw even later (choked), and yet there he was, posing like some wannabe gangsta after the game. Fuck him. I never knew how bad I detested that guy until TNT had to throat his hog all night. Did you see in the last game when LeBron jumped up and stole the pass and landed on Tay? Foul, Tay. What the fuck could he do to avoid that foul? He was STANDING there, and LeBron landed on top of him.

The best part is he's 21 and we have another 15 years of this shit. Great.

Literally, we had about 8 shots yesterday that were in-and-out. Just one of those nights. And then Sheed turning his ankle didn't help. These Cavs ain't the Milwaukee Bucks--they've got heart and grit. And I hope in the next game we see a better offensive play than kicking the ball to Tayshaun Prince for a 20 footer. I hope Dice realizes that we NEED him to do more than smile in his uniform.

If there is a single positive, then maybe these struggles will prevent us from sleepwalking into the Miami series. Better to giftwrap a game now than in the ECF.

I fucking hate TNT with a passion. All they do is focus on the "star". Did anyone realize that Rip had 30 focking points last night? I barely did. LeBron....did.....NOTHING!!@# And yet after every commercial break, after every time out, TNT's cameras would focus directly on LeBron. What the hell did he do? He should've made 30 free throws, with the way they were calling the game, but he ended up with 21. Seriously, if you paused the game long enough so I could take several smoke breaks, I think I can score 21 if I got a foul called on every shot. He did nothing to help his team win. He missed a last second shot (choked) and missed a free throw even later (choked), and yet there he was, posing like some wannabe gangsta after the game. Fuck him. I never knew how bad I detested that guy until TNT had to throat his hog all night. Did you see in the last game when LeBron jumped up and stole the pass and landed on Tay? Foul, Tay. What the fuck could he do to avoid that foul? He was STANDING there, and LeBron landed on top of him.

The best part is he's 21 and we have another 15 years of this shit. Great.

LeBron didn't do anything because he was taking 2 and three defenders everytime he had the ball. Even more funny is he didn't do much but still almost had a triple double.

I didn't see a whole defensive scheme revolve around Rip? Lebron pretty much deserves the accolades.

LeBron did have 8 TO's as well, not to minimize his game, but it's worth mentioning.

Hell, he almost had a quadruple double then!

I didn't see a whole defensive scheme revolve around Rip? Lebron pretty much deserves the accolades.

He's a douche. He gets no accolades from me.

21 year old posing punk.

With the score tied 72-all, James was fouled by Hamilton with 1:02 remaining, and as Cleveland's forward lined up for his free throws, Chauncey Billups came up alongside and said something.

"Hey!" Cavs coach Mike Brown shouted to the officials. "He can't talk to him like that!"

uh, lebron did the same thing, you jackass.

I hate conspiricy theroys more than any one, but its almost sadly obvious that last night, there was some star treatment going on. And the stars team got every close call.

LIke Glenn said, they still have to beat us here, which they wont, but it just makes me mad that we have to stretch this series out much longer than we should have to.

i'm sorry. but 3 important shitfaced things happened.

1.)We didnt execute and stick to the gameplan. Dyess shoulda got more set plays with sheed hobbling. and all this passing out the post crap when theres no double team was a turnover waiting to happen.

2.)We didnt play great defense regardless of the score. the soft zone is overused and useless now because of lack of variety.. And it seems Flip and his nutfaced group of asistants were too busy drawing up offensive plays to come up with something else. honestly i miss the days of letting guys go one on one and keeping the role players at bay. bron can score 50 if his team is shut down as far as i'm concerned. making tayshaun plasy funneling defense instead of being right in front of him doesnt help shyt out IMO.

3.)Flips getting outcoached by mike brown!! i'm sure there will be an excuse for this including sheeds ankle. but so what. we are going 7 games in every series after this(if we even hold home serve), which sucks. for a moment i just wish he had a more defensive brain. i also wish he'd lived up to his bs lie that he would use delfino in matchups against the lebron james/dwayne wade type players. instead of putting him on gadzuric and varejo in garbage time.:confused: his substitutions have been iffy to say the least. and we went from the best out of timeout plays to worst out of timeout plays since last year. :( blah, just fuck it!

I'm going to get shit on for saying this, but Flip cant come close to LB when it comes to coaching in close games. Sometimes I think is more nervous than the players

I'm going to get shit on for saying this, but Flip cant come close to LB when it comes to coaching in close games. Sometimes I think is more nervous than the players Maybe, but he's extremely affable.

Thanks, i'll take the prick that can get the job done ;)

Thanks, i'll take the prick that can get the job done ;)
basically. results speak louder than a good attitude. and if i dont see a title this year, Flip aint shit. even if we go to the 7th game of the finals and lose. because we have a better team than we did last year. so thats an utter failure also.

Thanks, i'll take the prick that can get the job done ;)
basically. results speak louder than a good attitude. and if i dont see a title this year, Flip aint shit. even if we go to the 7th game of the finals and lose. because we have a better team than we did last year. so thats an utter failure also.

It's a double edge sword.

On one hand LB was a master at ending these lazy arrogant attitudes. If LB was still our coach I can clearly envision him at the post game presser saying (in my best Bert and Ernie voice),

"Well I guess we felt we could roll in their and not give our best effort and win" while in the same sentence after throwing his players under the bus he would state "This is on all of us, the coach's weren't prepared, the players"

LB was much much better at not allowing shit like the last 9 quarters to continue.

On the other hand it was the LB stuff like I mentioned that was wearing thin on players.

You almost wish that Flip was allowed to coach the regular season and then Brown would be allowed to come in for the 10 week playoff stretch and tell Flip to go park his nice guy ass at the end of the bench and watch and learn.

I couldnt agree with your post more Gecko and Gutz

I'm going to get shit on for saying this, but Flip cant come close to LB when it comes to coaching in close games. Sometimes I think is more nervous than the players

I don't think anyone is going to question what you said.

For all his faults, LB is a better coach than Flip.

At the time of Flips hire, the hope was that the players learned enough from Brown's tutelage that they would police themselves instead of having a coach contol them.