Richard Hamilton Plays, Pistons Win, Not Mutually Exclusive: Pistons 89, Bucks 78
by Packey on Feb 6, 2011 9:45 AM EST
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PrintWhen Rip was summoned to enter the game around the two and a half minute mark of the first quarter, he was as surprised as any one of us:
"It was kinda like 'Is this a joke? Is somebody playing a joke on me?' " Hamilton said. "I thought it was a joke. I had no idea. No idea. Just yesterday I was inactive.
"I thought that was sign that it was my last time ever playing in a Pistons uniform."
He then hit five of his first six shots and it was kinda like, hey, this no. 32 guy can play, eh? Neat.
Hamilton scored 15 points in all -- 7-14 shooting in 20 minutes --- and the Pistons won pretty convincingly in Milwaukee on the back end of a back-to-back. It was the Pistons' third win in a row in the second game of a back-to-back after starting the season 0-9 in such games.
Tracy McGrady was the game's high-scorer with 20 points on 7-14 shooting in 30 minutes and IsoTayshaun Prince added a double-double (12 points & 11 rebounds) in a Pistons game-high 34 minutes.
We'll have more after the jump:
- Rip's PT was a boulder off the shoulders of teammates, apparently:
- Who knows if this means Rip will start playing regularly...
- Ben Gordon scored 12 on 3-7 shooting in 28 minutes. It looked like him and Rip were going to coexist nicely, but he tapered off as the game went along. BG and Rip combined for 0.0 points in the third quarter, but so did everyone else (actually, 14-13 Pistons).
- I love it THIS much when the Pistons win:
- Greg Monroe followed up his first 20/10 with seven & seven in 33 minutes. He was 3-6 shooting and had a steal. He was fine.
- Pistons outrebounded the Bucks 38-36, but the Bucks pulled down nine offensive rebounds to the Pistons five.
- Four players who saw nine-plus minutes did not register a rebound: Brandon Jennings (25 minutes), Earl Boykins (nine minutes), Chris Douglas-Roberts (nine minutes), and Charlie Villanueva (14 minutes).
- Bogut had 18 and nine in a game-high 38 minutes.
- Pistons took 11 more free throws than the Bucks, but only made five more than the Bucks.
- Delfino was 2-11 shooting in 31 minutes Box score
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"We all in this locker room wanted to see him out there, and it's just a weight off everybody's shoulder in the locker room," Wallace said. "You go into every game wondering what's going to happen with the Rip situation. What they going to do about Rip?
"To see him go out there and to see him play well, that felt good."
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I for one am glad Rip got the chance to play and played well
In honour of Hamilton’s achievements I propose a trade.
Stuckey and Maxiell to Portland for Andre Miller.
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Gordon and TMac to Memphis for Mayo and Thabeet.
I will forever abhor DMC not being a Piston.
I’m fine with this. I hate Thabeet, but it’s better than the alternative. Do, please.
F***KING TAYSHAUN ISOLATION.
no no no...its all about
Rip + Tay + Wilcox
For
Redd + Maggette
Hence the reason why Rip finally played for the first time in a month in Milwaukee and not elsewhere.
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
the first trade sounds good!
second one how about:
gordon + charlie + wilcox + daye for mayo and randolph
I think this is actually my favorite. Even though Mayo hasn’t been a franchise guy over in Memphis, if it erased that fateful summer and got us Randolph, I’d be fine with it.
by Biz Markie Moon on Feb 6, 2011 3:38 PM EST up reply actions
...And so began the 19 game win streak, culminating in a 7th seed playoff spot.
Where the Pistons managed to knock off an injured Miami Heat team who played without Lebron James (torn labia) for the last half of the season. Tayshaun Prince, who injured James when Prince violently curb stomped the former MVP outside of the Palace of Auburn Hills on February 11th, was unable to play in the game due to a league suspension and pending assault charges. “Had to take ’em to Crenshaw” Prince was quoted as saying. Detroit was able to rally from the mid season loss of their best player by the amazing breakout of Jonas Jerebko, whose 20 points and 11 rebounds per game powered the Pistons through the remainder of the season and inspired Metro Detroiters, who have placed an oversized viking helmet on the ‘Spirit of Detroit’ statue outside city hall.
by tads on Feb 6, 2011 10:19 AM EST reply actions 7 recs
...in the offseason
Dumars was fired to make way for an experiment in sports team management, where a group of rising star Pistons fans at DetroitBadBoys.com would make all personnel decisions by committee. Previous owner Karen Davidson was immediately mugged upon the sale of the team and the thief walked off with $350 million in cash. Seriously, Gores paid cash. Reports say the mugger looked drunk, surly, but pleased with himself as he made his way to Detroit Metro on a flight to Tampa. Instead of leaving Davidson empty handed, she and her daughter were hired as massage therapists for the new Pistons GM Committee. But the best news would be to come in the following season, when Greg Monroe would win his first of many MVP awards, and Jonas Jerebko received the Most Improved Player award for his performance that sports writers called “a hot Dirk Nowitzki on steroids”. Carmelo Anthony signs in Detroit for pennies, aching to play with Monroe and Jerebko, but apparently DBB signed him as a joke because they cut him before the season began, saying something about “go home to Ujiri, fools gold punk”.
F***KING TAYSHAUN ISOLATION.
by Mike Payne on Feb 6, 2011 12:14 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
With the money made from their jersey sales, the DetroitBadBoys GM committee managed, with the help of wealthy industrialists in one member of the group’s committee, to build a time machine and bring 1960s streetball legend Elmo “Flaming Turnip” Lewis, a 6’11 SF with the litheness of a gazelle, the balls of a raccoon in Japanese folklore, and the sensurgency of a room full of computers, to Detroit. He proceeded to start at point guard and became infamous for depantsing Devin Harris and setting fire to Brook Lopez’s Magic the Gathering cards while throwing up the Roc-A-Fella diamond at the Brooklyn Nets crowd.
by Biz Markie Moon on Feb 6, 2011 1:25 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Unfortunately, one member of the Committee went rogue. A shady character, known in the slums of New Tokyo as “Boen Yee,” stole the time machine and went on a rampage through history, destroying any checker-patterned upholstery he could find. Every checkered couch, curtain, El Camino seat, or bordello wall he found he defaced with a Batman symbol, muttering “Bebounds” like a postmodern Citizen Kane. Those close to Boen Yee knew that his ultimate goal was to find the moment in time when a Mr. and Mrs. Curry conceived “Michael,” interrupt their coitus before that illbegotten seed could germinate, and thus alter Detroit Pistons history forever.
just EPINION
by real Rob G on Feb 6, 2011 3:29 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
5 games into the season...
…The Detroit Pistons were sold to Las Vegas after a league record 872 trades were made in the first week and the team was bankrupted after a series of lop-sided trades that culminated with literally trading Chris Wilcox for a used couch. The Las Vegas Pistons opened their first game with a starting line-up of Jonas Jerebko, a 1982 Ford Bronco, Betty White, a white tiger, and a used couch. They went 3-79 that season.
by JoeDip on Feb 6, 2011 4:58 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
However, Ron Artest demanded a trade to Las Vegas, leaving the Los Angeles Lakers with a lineup of a used couch/Kobe/white tiger/Pau Gasol/Andrew Bynum, toppling the Buss empire. The Pistons, now running a lineup of Hercule Monocule, a British pointe guard drafted in the 2nd round, Apollo Fernandez, Rudy Fernandez’s angry brother, Ron Artest in a 1982 Bronco, Jonas Jerebko, and a homesick Greg Monroe, who demanded a trade also to Las Vegas for two bottles of St. Ides and a sack of kittens, which were acquired in a blockbuster trade that sent Elmo Lewis to Memphis for some cheeze whiz and a fancy pocket knife, managed to go 57-30, with the team’s wins produced having five extra games added out of their awesomeness.
by Biz Markie Moon on Feb 6, 2011 5:10 PM EST up reply actions
I Can't Rec This Unless A Maloof Is Involved.
More Wasted Than The DP's 2010-2011 Season
by V. on Feb 6, 2011 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
…But it wasn’t until a dark evening on the Las Vegas strip that the fate of the Pistons organization would take a dramatic turn. The elder statesman of the DBB collective was finishing his turn at monitoring the team’s basketball operations when he came a furious Maloof Brother accosted him on the street. The Maloofs, hostile towards the organization from its inception, were fuming mad since the Pistons destroyed two suites and let loose an angry sack of kittens during an even that came to as ‘Surly-fest’, and were angered more when DBB responded to the Maloofs subpoena’s with three live Red Pandas. It was no surprise that Omar(?) unleashed a verbal onslaught on single-letter-named man, but what was a surprise was what happens next: The two decided to settle their grievances on the pai gow tables of the unknown, yet world renowned dealer Boen yee. 38 hours and 3 cases of Dos Equis later, the DBB collective was now the proud owner the Palms Hotel and Casino, the Sacramento Kings, and a player only known as THE CONTROVERSIAL ONE.
by tads on Feb 6, 2011 11:29 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Rec'd for torn labia...
And for starting one of the finest reply chains I’ve seen in quite some time.
"It might be cool, I don't know... and if not, I don't care."
-Ronald Jenkees
pistons win on the road!
rip is free!!!!! pistons win! can we put coach q on the inactive list for 13 games too?
Great to see Rip back in it!
Since he’s a fellow 50 point club member, naturally I hate to see Rip rack up DNP-CDs. That isn’t right. In fact, Rip is on my personal, all-time 50-point club fantasy first team. For those of you curious, here’s my ultimate line-up:
PG: Me
SG: Richard Hamilton
SF: Willie Burton (repping the D!)
PF: Jermaine O’Neal
C: Walt Wesley
Try topping that team!
by Tony D. Buckets on Feb 6, 2011 4:41 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
Here goes
PG- Tony Delk
SG- Tony Delk
SF- Tony Delk
PF- Tony Delk
C- Tony Delk
Am I striking the right chords here? Because I can already hear the sweet string music.
by JoeDip on Feb 6, 2011 4:50 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
CV liked having Rip out there.
@CV31
Charlie Villanueva
Last nite was such a great win. Felt good to finally see my man Rip get out on the floor. It lifted up the team. We need that leadership.
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Hooray for JoD?
G Richard Hamilton played for the first time in 14 games, and he scored 15 points in 20 minutes during the Pistons’ win at Milwaukee. Just one night earlier, coach John Kuester deactivated Hamilton against New Jersey even though he had only 10 other healthy players on the roster. Hamilton told a reporter afterward that he doubted he would ever play again for the Pistons. What happened in between? President of basketball operations Joe Dumars was apparently the driving force. He said in a TV interview that he wanted Hamilton and Kuester to work out their problems in a professional manner.
(Yahoo! Sports)
Wait, I thought I remember saying that Dumars was involved in the benching.
Now he wasn’t involved?
Terrence J. is feeling a bit fishy...
by Trout Jefferson on Feb 7, 2011 12:12 AM EST up reply actions
If You Read Between The Lines
Between what CB said, between what JD said, between what Q said…to me, it sounds like Rip was being stubborn, and things escalated out of hand.
I think a lot of the problem is that the vets, particularly Tay and Rip, don’t really respect Q, but Q had no choice…judging from Tay’s stat line.
Dumars has said previously that if Tay wants to be a PfL, he will be one. But you can see there’s a real divide between Rip, Tay and Ben and the rest of the team.
Imported from Detroit
by V. on Feb 7, 2011 1:09 AM EST up reply actions
I went to the game last night
Saw Rip on the bench in the first quarter, and thought, “ok, so he’s not inactive, I guess that’s good,” but I figured he would just get a DNP. And then he actually went in the game, and ran around like he always does, and started hitting shots. Damn, but that felt good to watch, even from up in the nosebleeds. Think I might have scared the lady in the row in front of me when he hit that baseline fadeaway.
The game itself was crap, might have been the lowest energy I’ve ever witnessed in an NBA arena. Put it this way, the biggest cheer came for the senior citizens doing the Dougie (Milwaukee’s dance team is called “Energee” or something like that, and the 3rd quarter spot where they’d perform was taken by senior citizens, they termed it “Seniorgee”. Cheesy…but cool to see, anyway).
The Pistons just outgrinded a Bucks team that just isn’t any good right now.
I'm expecting 100% improvement from the Lions this season.
that's where the old dude in the 69 pic was from
I'm expecting 100% improvement from the Lions this season.
Clearly Rip is the future of this team
and we should offer him another extension.
It's true, I'm a rageaholic. I just can't live without rageahol!
Resigning Rip Hamilton would be a mistake. He can’t play the three and Ben Gordon is a better option than him at the 2. Our best bet would be to trade him now.
by Biz Markie Moon on Feb 7, 2011 1:04 AM EST up reply actions 5 recs
Missed a few games while away at a conference, but
Very happy to be catching up with these excellent DBB threads. Excellent work, folks.
Oh, and count me as happy also that Rip played.
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