Detroit Dimes: Dime Magazine Honors The Pistons Of The Past, Present
by Mike Payne on May 7, 2010 8:39 PM EDT
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PrintDime Magazine recently showed some respect to the 'Stones of the past and present in a collection of articles this week. Okay, so maybe Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva didn't exactly earn "respect", but they were noted in a rather fitting article about... defense (lack thereof, specifically). Three separate articles published by Dime gave our Pistons some notoriety, all of which are certainly worth a read:
- "It's Time To Reunite The 2003-04 Pistons... In Denver" suggests a trade of Nene Hilario and JR Smith (and Reynaldo Balkman) for Tayshaun Prince and Richard Hamilton. Sure, it'll never happen, but this writer sure wouldn't complain.
- The "2010 NBA All No-Defense Team" features not one but two Pistons, both of which just happen to be our most recent free agent signings Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva.
- Last, while Tayshaun Prince didn't make the cut for this year's "The NBA All-Iron Man Team" thanks to his injuries, Ben Wallace did.
Enjoy the read while you can, Pistons fans. The summer doldrums are not too far away...
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nene’s last name is hilario? that makes him kinda less bad ass. i thought he was some city of god of god orphan who didnt know his last name.
I disagree
I think Nene Hilario is one of the best names in all of sports. If you want a great but not very badass name, I would nominate Zaza Pachulia. I like ’em both as players too.
Zaza Pachulia...
theres a name for ya. And quite a face to go with it as well.
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It's fitting if nothing else
Nene happens to be a hilarious name, and there’s an epic photo of him flexing like a monkey (sadly I cannot seem to find it, I thought it was a for a slam article)
by bearded thundar on May 7, 2010 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Technically
His name is just Nene, after a legal change in 2003. His birth name is Maybyner Rodney Hilário.
"Gee'drah write a rhyme in the time he hollow out a flask - crack a Guinness stout with his teeth one time, swallowed the glass"
Maybyner? can anyone help me pronounce it?
May-biner is how i’m reading it. At any rate Nene is an improvement.
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very good question
maybe we should trade Gordon and Villanueva for Curry, Randolph and Maggette?
"Gee'drah write a rhyme in the time he hollow out a flask - crack a Guinness stout with his teeth one time, swallowed the glass"
'Sheed narrowly missed another double-double
Yeah, he got his two points, but only managed to snag one rebound. Oh, so close.
But I’m sure it wasn’t for a lack of effort.
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by MrHappyMushroom on May 8, 2010 12:42 AM EDT reply actions
that's some A-class output by Rasheed
"Gee'drah write a rhyme in the time he hollow out a flask - crack a Guinness stout with his teeth one time, swallowed the glass"
I would have been down with it
Except I want Boston to beat LeBron. That way Stern can further expand Bron’s jaw.
Sheed needs to get Boston into finals, and then epically explode on them, going so far that he tears off part of KG’s head and superglue’s it onto his bald spot (colors are close enough).
by bearded thundar on May 8, 2010 9:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Rondo
29-18 (boards) – 13? Are you kidding me?
‘Sheed, meanwhile, exploded for his first double-triple in a while! (That’s 3 points AND 3 rebounds. And imagine what he would have done had the refs not been cheating, and the media against him, and the lights not been in his eyes, and the failure of the Israelis and Palestinians to create a just and lasting peace. Jesus, with all the poor guy has to contend with, it’s remarkable that he can put it aside and just play ball.
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by MrHappyMushroom on May 9, 2010 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions
The more I read/hear about it, the less I’m looking forward to seeing it.
by garrettelliott on May 8, 2010 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions
im going to check it out tomorrow, i hope its great but it looks like they stuff tons of shit in it ala spiderman 3. i heard the scene after the credits is pretty awesome though.
I was really hoping
the mixed reviews were due to an unoriginal (but solid) screenplay.
the story makes sense, but the conflict, while plentiful, is really, really weak. IM1 is definitely superior in every way. dialog was terrible in IM2.
it’s not as horrible as spider man 3. SM3 and Ghost Rider were especially terrible Marvel films as of late.
I pretty much agree with this article:
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2010/05/iron_man_2_is_a_two_hour_trail.php
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yeah, most of the reviews i have read say that there is way too much avengers stuff in it. i guess joss whedon is directing that and despite my love of his work i suspect that his avengers movie will be an epic fail.
I enjoyed IM2, but it wasn’t as good as the first one, for sure. I would agree that they tried to cram a bit too much into it.
I think an Avengers movie would be tough to pull off, but of course I’m going to see it.
they need to figure out
how to cross promote whilst actually telling a story.
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yeah it got a lil crazy with all the avengers stuff. hoping that thor will be awesome as well as captain america. if they stick to the brubaker stuff captain america could be really amazing.
my buddy and i came up with two flaws in IM2
Superman problem: if Tony Stark can invent a micro-sized version of the superconductor needed to keep himself alive as a prisoner in a terrorist camp, then pretty much he can invent anything he needs in relatively short time. So, when he struggles for months to find a substitute element for the one poisoning him, and inventing a new element is the solution, it stands to reason that Tony Stark would have figured that out at first onset of being aware that the element was poisonous.
Revealed Identity: now that everyone knows Tony Stark is Iron Man, every crazy in the world should have come out of the woodwork and took a swing at him, Pepper Potts, and all his friends. They touch on this in multiple comics …. being a superhero requires a protected identity. Bottom line, all he got was the Rourke Russian Whiplash guy, Hammer (already a rival businessman), and … the US Government?!? Where’s all the supervillains?!?
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in the comics its common knowledge that stark is iron man and his friends do suffer for it, at least after osborn comes to power as the head of shield. i think in the books its kind of implied that stark is able to protect them as head of the avengers/director of shield. as for villains coming out of the woodwork, well if they had done that it would have been a very over stuffed movie. maybe in the third one when we get the mandarin(hopefully) we will see him go after starks loved ones.
I really disliked the internal conflict
getting back to being Iron Man was a mad lame choice for a sequel, unless guys are forcing him out of action (the Russian Whiplash being much more powerful, etc).
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Ghost Rider
Ghost Rider is my all time favorite comic book series so I was especially disappointed by it but one of the reasons why it was so bad was they had very little story to work with. The movie was done by Columbia who only retained the rights to tell the Ghost Rider origin story.
Of course the biggest issue I had with Ghost Rider was the fact that Nicolas fucking Cage played Johnny Blaze…that and the CGI was a joke on Ghost Rider’s skull.
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
Young Ray Liotta would've been awesome as Dan Ketch
1990 era Ghost Rider is the best… Mark Texeira (there’s a guy in the MLB with his name now, makes it tough to google his art) is my favorite comicbook artist ever, his Ghost Rider, Wolverine, and Punisher joints were crazy stupid fresh. And mega ill.
His bike was way more Akira and much less raked-out 70s style girder fork chopper.
I never watched that movie, Nic Cage alienated me from it.
"Someday pray that he will grow a farm barn full, Recent research shows its not so darn harmful"
Nicholas Cage
I’m a movie geek, and I fucking love, I repeat, LOVE, Nicholas Cage, because it’s like he takes all these bad movies because he owes all this money to pay for his pyramid, and he reads the script, then he looks at the cast and goes, “Shit, I’m in (insert bad movie). The cast is horrible, the script makes The Clone Wars look like David Mamet, looks like I gotta go supernova and save this baby MYSELF.” And then he attempts and valiantly fails. It’s like what would happen if you put Joe Johnson on this year’s Wizards team: a guy with talent but not the greatest actor ever trying to save a complete train wreck.
by Biz Markie Moon on May 9, 2010 1:12 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
the new bad lieutenant was pretty hilarious if you like crazy as fuck nic cage. i would highly recommend it .
And there's the whole Herzog angle too
There’s more crazy in that movie than Brian Wilson and L. Ron Hubbard in a canoe carved from a clown body.
by Biz Markie Moon on May 9, 2010 10:43 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
yeah that movie was a lot of fun. way better than it had any right being. i loved how all the plots were tied up in one two minute scene at the end.
I will Netflix it, because it sounds awesome
I tried to watch the original Bad Lieutenant. I felt dirty.
by Biz Markie Moon on May 9, 2010 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I hate Nicolas Cage
He’s such a D bag. Neardy old dude going bald trying to be an action hero? Who’s he think he is , Bruce Willis? Not even close dork.
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My buddy and I laugh every time
when that old guy starts telling Cage “Your family … your friends …” and it’s a montage of things in his life, but for “friends,” they show a picture of his … bike. That’s it? His bike is his only friend?!? Damn, Ghost Rider, you need to get out more.
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its funny also when they interview cage about playing ghost rider he talks about getting into character and says something like yeah i figured johnny blaze loves jelly beans so i tried to always have him eating some jelly beans. thats some method acting.
It's not bad
But Kickass was a very cool movie. I thought it would suck but it was f-ing sweet.
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