schedule TBD
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.
Possible. They are playing 5 on 8 (with 3 refs).Quote:
Originally Posted by DrRay11
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?
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Originally Posted by GrantBell
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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.
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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.
I think we'll beat Cleveland.
That city is just cursed to hell.
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Originally Posted by Wilfredo Ledezma
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?
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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.
Let's start the campaign RIGHT NOW. Pharoah for your 2009-2010 Detroit Pistons Head Coach!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pharaoh
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
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Originally Posted by Pharaoh
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.
And Detroit isn't?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilfredo Ledezma
Geezus... fucking LeBron freight train.
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Originally Posted by Codename V
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!