Dumars: Curry will be back

Finally, some good news!

lolz@kevin

Good guy, it will be another disaster season.
Maybe fire Dumars is the right choice

I said in another thread: If Joe D can get one or two high impact players to where we are considered at least a legit chance to get to the ECF by the pundits and soothsayers, the question is does Dyess come back. If he decides not to (excl’g one based solely on money), and on paper we’re better than the Spurs and can at least compete with the Cavs with Dyess, I think we can fairly assume Dyess’ opinion of Curry as a coach.

Curry will have a losing record by mid-season next year, and then he will be canned.

The fact that Rip spent the better part of the last half of the season not even on speaking terms with guy tells me that maybe he’s not the right guy for the job. Not to mention he’s a fucking idiot.

I can’t imagine Dumars would have brought Curry back for another year if he thought the captain of the team wasn’t speaking to him and the emotional leader of the team didn’t like him. Its not as bad as you guys think.

MCIAFI II

This is beyond ridiculous.

He was the worst rookie coach in the league with arguably the best roster. His team was never prepared, he got nothing out of timeouts, most of his young players regressed as the season went on.

He never established a rotation, he never established a playing style (if you can call struggling to get to 80 points an offense, then whatever), and he is quite possibly the worst interview in the history of the NBA.

Honestly, who is going to watch this crap again next year, with slightly less talent? Will we cheer if Curry can get within spitting distance of 40 wins?

Maybe it is time for Dumars to go. He’s been living off the title and Billups for 4 years, and hasn’t done anything nearing average performance for a NBA GM.

oh, and I should be a little clearer. I meant Curry didn’t have as bad a relationship with his players as many people think. NOT that he was a better coach than people are claiming.

Come on! What’s the worst that can happen?

/shoots self again

Not surprised.

He’s tactically inept. What FA this summer or the next would want to play Michael Curry?

It’s such a shame that Bill Davidson is dead, for reasons beyond the fact that he was a really good guy. I don’t think he’d have ever allowed Curry to continue coaching. Having read the Freep’s recent article about Karen Davidson’s approach to the Pistons so far, I got the sense that she isn’t about to step in anytime soon to overrule something that Dumars or Tom Wilson wants. She’s too new to the business. Dumars can do whatever he likes.

Boo. Hiss…

i like the finish to ap article. cognitive dissonance.
“Dumars fired coach Flip Saunders last year after he led the team to the Eastern Conference finals in each of his three seasons.

The Pistons parted ways with Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown in 2005 after he helped them win a title and almost repeat in his two years with them.

Rick Carlisle was fired after two years with the Pistons following an Eastern Conference finals appearance in his second season and NBA Coach of the Year honors in his first."

when did the good of the pistons become secondary to being considerate to the personal interests and feelings of some guy named michael curry? when did that happen?

i think dumars is afraid of coaches with strong personalities. curry is his man. his servant.

You know, I just got done reading Bill Simmons latest column. There’s a bright side to this season. Regardless of how things play out next season, whether we bounce back or continue to suck, at least we won’t be as big of douches as Celtics fans.

NICE!!!! We’ll certainly get a lottery pick for next season. Maybe we can get Lance Stephenson or someone barely old enough to buy alcohol in Canada. By then, we can reward Curry by extend his contract for doing such a good job in his second year. His rotation will shorten to 6 players. Stuckey will average 8 ppg and 2 assist, Maxiell will get Amir’s minutes and Amir will be back in the D league etc…..

I can imgagine this conversation happening with Joe D and Curry…
End of year review

The demise of the Pistons, combined with career of Dice, is like a Shakespearean tragedy.

This seals the deal. Boozer is coming to Detroit. Why else would any good free agents come to Detroit but for the money now?

Shinions, my take away from that Simmons column was that NBA officiating is so bad that even Celtics fans are saying things like, “it’s as bad as ever.”

One other point from one of the previous threads, somebody mentioned that they thought Stuckey played good defense on LeBron during the series. I certainly thought that was the case in Game 3 and a MAJOR reason why we were in that game for so long. I’m on record as being extremely concerned about Stuckey’s development with Curry as head coach, but I thought he was our best player in Game 3. That’s something I don’t think I anticipated before the playoffs started.

I think Joe would have been perfectly happy to keep carlisle if davisson hadn’t forced him to fire him, brown for all of his genius had one foot out the door almost as soon as he got here, with his constant campaigning for other jobs ,neither of those two leaving were’s joe fault, as for flip everyone on this post was screaming for his head before he was fired , and looks good now compared to Curry.Ive said this before and I’ll say it again no coach of high quality wouldv’e taken this job last year had they known that one of the main core members was going to be moved and that this year was going to be a transitional yr. which I beleived Joe would have been upfront enough to let them know. I think he told curry this to but curry’s confidence bordered on cockyness , espeicially at the beginning of the yr.whether he’s learned from this is hard to say . from Joe’s point of veiw he could give Curry 2yrs to prove himself, by then the new core will be established , he can fire Curry without costing him much and look for a high profile coach if Curry doesn’t get any better.As for Curry he has done some of the things none of the other coaches would do , he’s play the young guys enough that we know what we have with them , basically a bunch of one dimensional players best suited for backups unfortunately, Hopefully Joe can turn this bunch into a solid core again and hire a new coach after this next season who’s fundamentally strong and not a head case.

This is clearly a case of pride fuckin’ with Dumars.

When Simmons writes about the NBA, it’s like I have to wade through 90 percent Celtics gahbage before I get to meaningful sentences, so I don’t fucking bother because Bill Simmons is a cock mongler.

I’m with the microwave on this one. If Joe has to overpay for a new coach, a Byron Scott (even though his own team is getting children-of-the-corn’d by Billups’s crew … pay for anyone not Avery Squeaky Johnson or Cheerleader Van Gundy, and get it over with … no offense, but he’s in over his head, and this isn’t OKC or Memphis.

I think it’s too early to talk about canning joe d. But he isn’t as good as his reputation…the billups and b wallace moves were lucky (not that most other gms with titles didn’t get lucky with a consensus #1 pick falling in their laps). Rip was a great move. Tay was a great pick. Sheed was a good move, but it’s tough to credit a gm too much for trading picks for vets with a team that has a different time horizon. Not re-signing ben was also excellent, and would have been difficult for many gms. On the other side of the ledger are darko (the worst gm move of the decade), ai/billups, curry, and not making it work with brown (maybe he couldn’t have done anything and davidson was just fed up…but how do you let a relationship with a coach who’s won you a title and nearly two blow up?)

He’s probably upper quartile. But not elite, in my opinion.

I think Dumars realizes that he put Curry in a position to fail. As for Stuckey’s development, it’s definitely important to have a former point guard as an assistant coach. With Chauncey, Lindsey and Terry Porter gone, Stuckey lost everyone that mentored him last year.

Ok, critics, who do you replace him with? What’s your short list? I don’t have one. If an elite coach was available, then ok…but no one even in the second tier, except maybe JVG and I’m not sure he’s the right guy for the gig, is available. I’d rather go with Lam, and they’ve passed on him twice now.

My take on this is to let him develop. I will say this much, he did seem to be communicating better towards the end of the year/after AI was shut down. Also, frankly, I don’t think Joe D. cares what his vets think of MC.

but why??? argh…

Ok I’ll take a shot at this He’s not an elite coach , but what the hell Wooden from Atlanta , worked under Brown , much more stable ,has improved them every year , and stands up to his players , hasn,nt won anything yet but you have to start somewhere , and you might be able to pry him from Atlanta. Ok flame away if nessecary but at least have the guts to throw a name back out .

So, I guess I shouldn’t bother buying tickets for next season. Why pay good money to watch a team that clearly has no plan for the present or the future?

Holy shit, the Pistons are becoming the new Lions to me.

What makes Simmons such a huge douche in my book is that in this last column he managed to mention Bird six times in this column. That’s probably a higher number than the total number of columns he wrote about the Celtics in all of last year when they went from one of the worst team in the league to the Ship. He writes plenty about his Sox, plenty about his Patriots, but for some reason he’d rather remember his all white mid-80s Celtics than embrace this all black team that, you know, won a title and all. But hey, it’s not like Boston has any problems with racism…

I could care less if he has such a douchey sense of self-importance for his teams. I’m the same way about the Pistons – I think their ‘04 title was “better” than the Heat’s ’06 title. But Matt can write a column for Fanhouse without mentioning Isiah, Dumars (the player), Rodman, and Lambieer every couple lines.

I guess long rant shortened, as Boney put it, Bill Simmons is a cock mongler.

Onions?

I don’t call people cock monglers. I prefer to call them douches

Regarding Bill Simmons, although I abhor his obvious Bostonian homer-douche-ness, the guy is fucking HILARIOUS. Best sports writer, in my opinion, on the planet. Ever listen to the BS Report? Sports, movies, pop culture— it doesn’t matter what he’s talking about, he’s an extremely bright, witty, funny guy and I thoroughly enjoy his writing even though I hate the teams he gets frequent boners over.

If Curry were to be replaced, I would want Eddie Jordan. I like coaches that run an offense (Jerry Sloan, Phil Jackson) as opposed to calling individual plays because it usually ends up being isos.

I love watching Utah’s offense with everyone moving, cutting and screening. Eddie Jordan runs the Princeton.

I think with more defensive minded players he could do a lot.

My bad Boney.