Rip, Kuester, and Dumars flap their gums
by Packey on Feb 28, 2011 3:03 PM EST
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PrintHere I thought maybe the Pistons were just going to completely ignore this whole "player protest," Rip vs. Kuester drama and hope it all went away. However, this afternoon, Rip, Kuester, and Dumars all played nice and issued comments in their best attempt to play the PR clean up game.
MLIVE's Chris Iott was all over what Richard Hamilton and Kuester said, but let's break it down, tweet by tweets:
Richard Hamilton and John Kuester fist bump as Rip leaves the court.
Saying "let's hug it out" really loud for the media to hear would've been too obvious. Fist bumping is the ultimate, nonchalant bro'ing it up gesture. You think they bought it, dude? Just in case they didn't, why don't you speak to the media. Richard Hamilton, you go first:
Richard Hamilton said he had a good talk with Kuester recently. Relationship is better.
Richard Hamilton blamed miscommunication for issues with Kuester.
Richard Hamilton said he went home Friday during shootaround. Called at last minute. Should have called earlier to let team know.
Richard Hamilton says trade deadline deal was not as reported. Passed on several chances to explain how buyout was reported incorrectly.
Richard Hamilton said there was no player protest. Was surprised when he heard it reported as such.
When Rip was asked when he and Kuester spoke, he didn't have an answer. When asked to explain the reported trade with Cleveland, he kept reiterating that we shouldn't believe everything that's reported.
Okay, John Kuester, let's hear what you have to say:
Question to John Kuester: Are you disappointed this discussion with Richard Hamilton didn't happen sooner.
John Kuester: "Rip is an outstanding basketball player and he's been a huge part of this organization."
Yeahhhhh, great scripted answer, but not really what we were looking for there. Kuester also could not specify when he and Rip talked. Why is that confidential information? How hard is it to recall when you two talked things out, if it actually happened?
Shortly after Kue and Rip spoke to the media, Joe Dumars released a statement:
"First of all, John Kuester has my full support as we try to make a push towards the postseason over these last 21 games. We’ve had a long and proud history of being a first class organization that handles its business the right way. We expect everyone that represents the Detroit Pistons to do so in a first class manner and that will continue as we move forward."
I mean, if they want to act like everything is all peachy, don't be so blatantly bogus. But that's just my opinion.
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That's not fair
The Pistons are 20 games behind the Chicago Bulls. No way are we that close to their ass.
by joejoejoe on Feb 28, 2011 3:25 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Kriz
is easily the most articulate poster here. Sigh…another rec.
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by MrHappyMushroom on Feb 28, 2011 7:15 PM EST up reply actions
MFMP, Did You Hijack Kriz' Account?
Give you an extra rec for that move if I could!
When I stop convulsing from lmao-ing so hard, I’ll rec this.
Just Vpinion
by V. on Mar 1, 2011 2:29 AM EST up reply actions
Wheat production is up 15% again this year!
This team issues Soviet quality propaganda and runs like a Soviet built car.
It’s just not that hard to play the kids, trade your bad contracts for other bad contracts,and move on.
The USSR’s three-point percentage is up 15% again this year!
Left unguarded, Vladimir Lenin scores from downtown (Agence France-Presse)
by -PS- on Feb 28, 2011 5:34 PM EST up reply actions 12 recs
Damnit, Sheed,
we told you not to leave Lenin unguarded.
by b23 on Feb 28, 2011 6:00 PM EST up reply actions 15 recs
Is there video of this fistbump?
I wonder who initiated. Were they both just walking fist-first and made contact accidentally? Did the bumper see the first of the initiator and think “Oh, god. If I don’t pound that, shit’s gonna be all over the news.” RIP HAMILTON / JOHN KUESTER LEAVES JOHN KUESTER / RIP HAMILTON HANGING. “Shit just got real,” said a source close to matter.
This signature is false.
by heWizard on Feb 28, 2011 3:33 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
Everything is rainbow jelly beans and unicorn smiles!!!
Paw bumps for everyone!!!
by tads on Feb 28, 2011 3:55 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Silly pandas
The high five is totally obsolete. It’s now all about the fist bump. Even Kuester knows that…
It's gonna take a lot of fireworks to clean this place up.
I've never fully gotten the red panda thing.
But I"m stunned that an actual photo of a red panda bidding someone slap of five in the context of this story didn’t get, like, 150,000,000 recs in its first five minutes.
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by MrHappyMushroom on Feb 28, 2011 7:17 PM EST up reply actions
OK, obviously this is Potemkin-village like (trying to interest Prohkorov?), but
Seriously, what should they do, at this point? “Don’t be so blantantly bogus” as in, “OK, sure he screamed insulting obscenties at me in practice. And yeah, I then refused to play our highest-paid guy pretty much ever. And sure, we tried to get him the hell out of here, but it just didn’t work, so, um, here we are and, um, we’re together for the foreseabble future, so, um. . . .”
by Toledo Joe on Feb 28, 2011 5:23 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
no man, they don’t have to stutter their way to repeating everything we’ve already seen/heard, but they also don’t have to insult our intelligence with this weak ass contrived mop up. I would’ve rather had them not say anything at all and just let it wilt away
by Packey on Feb 28, 2011 6:51 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Should have gone more like this:
Reporter: Coach, are you you disappointed this discussion with Richard Hamilton didn’t happen sooner?
Q: I’m not sure if you heard, but we fistbumped. You don’t earn respect in the past, you earn it with fistbumps.
Reporter: Rip, things have clearly been tense between you and Coach Kuester. Are emotions still riding high or is it water under the bridge now that we’re past the trade deadline?
Rip: That’s a dumb fucking question. Didn’t you see I fistbumped that asshole? I told Joe this wouldn’t work. Go get TiVo or something.
Reporter: Joe, Rip and Coach Kues—
JOD: I absolutely did not orchestrate any public display of manspect. Rip and Coach Q are professionals: whenever you have the opportunity to help your team in the short term, you have to fist bump. Whenever you have the opportunity to help your team in the long term, fistbumping is, you know, it can’t hurt. This is a business.
This signature is false.
by heWizard on Feb 28, 2011 7:07 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Popovich wouldn’t have messed around. He would have said what happened, what they did to resolve it, and that it was over and they’ve moved on.
by garrettelliott on Feb 28, 2011 7:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4aOTSUY5do&feature=related
fast forward to the 49 second mark, i imagine pop would say something like that to whatever fool would cross him.
Where was the fine for Rip?
If Rip was insubordinate then the Pistons should said so, suspended him without pay, and then when the suspension was over get back to business. This fake ‘everything is OK’ company line comes out of them lying or covering up dissention at the outset. Now the coverup is worse than the crime. Roberto Alomar is in the HOF and he spit on a guy. You can forgive bad moments but only if you acknowledge them and a dirty laundry piece from a beat writer isn’t the way to do it.
hmmmmm....
fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck…lies all of them, a three ring circus of lies..go pistons..we won’t go through this next year, right?
The worst (and horribly possible) scenario that could come from this is Rip getting a bunch of minutes as the org tries to save face.
“faking it” minutes that get taken away from the kids is gunna piss me off.
Rip’s ass better not leave that bench unless bg, stuck, daye, summers, and Bynum are all fouled out of a game.
by freywagg on Feb 28, 2011 8:08 PM EST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
I don't give a shit
who said what to whom and when. I’d still be a little pissed about tanking a game to make a point, if tanking wasn’t the point. All I care about is that the bullshit doesn’t create any more dull losses. This team was always going to hit a wall, all teams do (even the Spurs). The point is to recreate a culture of winning with new faces. As long as that happens going forward, I don’t care who fist bumps who.
This only confirms what we've known all along
Richard Hamilton is a pro’s pro.
by RoscoeJacksonJr on Mar 1, 2011 3:47 AM EST reply actions 4 recs
In unrelated news, I was playing Facebook Scrabble and
The game won’t take the word “epinion.” I was outraged.
by Toledo Joe on Mar 1, 2011 7:59 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
Anybody notice
that the Thunder signed Kendrick Perkins to an extension that probably around the same as what JD gave Villanuevaaaaah-oh? Why can’t we have a young center? I want a young center.
Agreed
Necrophiliac moose hunters = bad
It's gonna take a lot of fireworks to clean this place up.
by Shinons on Mar 1, 2011 1:00 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Fail. Don't Hate it till you've tried it.
"You’d be surprised what you can accomplish if you’re not concerned with making sense!"- PS
Why can’t we have a young center Presti? I want a young center Presti.
It's gonna take a lot of fireworks to clean this place up.
by Shinons on Mar 1, 2011 12:13 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Perkins is kind of broken, though, isn’t he?
by garrettelliott on Mar 1, 2011 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
You know what's depressing?
We actually had a shot at Perkins. At the draft. And we picked….. delfino.
Yeah, he’s been real nice for the Bucks.
by Biz Markie Moon on Mar 1, 2011 3:35 PM EST up reply actions
You know to how many players and how many teams this can be applied to?
This team is not worthy of my fanhood.
favorite line...
Saying “let’s hug it out” really loud for the media to hear would’ve been too obvious. Fist bumping is the ultimate, nonchalant bro’ing it up gesture.
We are now that team, you know, the one whose front page looks more like a tabloid than anything else. Awesome.
(not a criticism of Packey or DBB, just to make sure that’s clear).
u make a gud point.
It's gonna take a lot of fireworks to clean this place up.
by Shinons on Mar 1, 2011 4:29 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Wait a second.
The poster’s name is bonerici. Through pronunciation, you either get Boner Icy, Boner I See, or, possibly Bone Rici, close to hollywood film actress Christina Ricci. Going on that same principle, you may even get Boner Etchy.
Conclusion: I need to get off DBB.
by Biz Markie Moon on Mar 1, 2011 8:03 PM EST up reply actions
I need to get off DBB.
Which could be read at least two ways. Through pronunciation, you could get,
“I need to get off (of) DBB,” as in, I need to leave DBB and do something else.
Or, especially given the context of “bonerici,” which could be read as “boner itchy,” you could be saying, “I need to get off, DBB,” where DBB is collectively us, the group to whom you are addressing the comment, “I need to get off.”
by brgulker on Mar 2, 2011 1:07 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I think we should all announce when we are in need of getting off, DBB.
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
Gulker, don’t use your English statistics in basketball. There’s no place for that overanalysis.
by Biz Markie Moon on Mar 2, 2011 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
no sugarcoat, get off not just ENJOYABLE, but also prince song, speaking of prince songs, another one is sexy m.f. written FOR JONAS jerebko. good looks and basketball HUSTLE are contirbution to entire pistons program. just epinion
by -PS- on Mar 3, 2011 11:28 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
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