I stumbled upon this classic footage last night. Nothing special, just a random regular season game (April 3, 1988) that someone decided to record. The Bad Boys lost the game 112-110, but hey, they’re winning at the end of this specific clip, so it’s as good of a placeholder for a weekend open thread as anything.
Happy Friday, and have a good one.
I just noticed that McCosky has really been on his grind with the blog and that some unfortunate news came from him today. He said that Amir went down with an ankle sprain today in the last scrimmage of the night. The way he talked about it however, it didn’t seem too serious, but I wonder if it will affect his preseason availability.
Also, I found it interesting that McCosky had seemingly endless good things to say about the ‘07-’08 Flip Murray. If he’s consistently good for us this season, that’s definitely a problem (as in where to divide the minutes) that I’d happily welcome. McCosky also continued to praise Stuckey who won me over strictly on his performance in the five summer league games. I’m coming dangerously close to being ready to buy a Stuckey jersey before he logs a single regular season minute.
Who else is getting psyched for the fact that regular season tickets go on sale tomorrow?!?!?! I am absolutely locking up tickets tomorrow morning to the two Pistons appearances at Staples Center this season.
Love the clip. A couple random thoughts came to my mind while watching that…
1) Dumar’s foul on Jordan was a ghost foul. Still no one whined and complained like the team does now. (Can anyone show that clip to Rip and Tey… Sheed is a lost cause, so I don’t see a point.)
2) I’m always surprised at how slim Mahorn looks when I see old footage.
3) Andrian Dantley, 1988? The trade must have happened later that season. AD was pretty good.
4) Oakley was good not great.
5) Pippen coming off the bench with “confidence issues”… that and the migraines in the playoffs (anyone else remember.) What a Momma’s boy.
I bet we’ll see Flip and Stuckey on the floor together. There was a recent article on Tay’s minutes and how it’s hard to cut them down because of his skillset. They talked about how they want him on the floor with Stuckey so they’ll have two ball handlers on the floor.
If Flip continues to impress, it could be a good thing in terms of resting Tayshaun. I think this would affect Afflalo’s minutes more than Stuckey’s.
I was hoping to see The Worm in there.
Isn’t the sportsmanship award named after Dumars? It probably wouldn’t be if he whined after every foul call. It would be nice if all of the players and coaches simply moved on from every call, but it would also be nice if there weren’t a ref who had just pled guilty to fixing games, as well.
This was the 1987-88 season. Dantley was traded during the 1988-89 season.
I remember listening to it on the radio on the way back from the lake. The Pistons were in the middle of their first three game losing streak of the season, and this was number four. I think Jordan dropped like 60 in that game, and there were 60,000 in attendance or something ridiculous like that.
IIRC, we had a chance to win at the end with the score tied, and lost when Jordan stole the ball and we were forced to foul before he got a breakaway (this was obviously before the breakaway rule). That was a heck of a game.
Funny to hear the announcer say that Jordan was known for slow starts. Whenever anyone asks me about Jordan’s career, I am simply going to say he was a slow starter, and that was pretty mich his reputation until revisionist history took hold an made him into some sort of legend.
When Michael Jordan played early in his career the Bulls used to go inside to start the game almost every single game, then try to get everyone else involved, they go to Jordan. Pippen and Horace Grant weren’t yet reliable offensive players and Phil Jackson knew if Jordan just started shooting in the first quarter the team would never develop as a team. Jordan was getting slow starts by design.
From the ‘81-’82 season to the ‘89-’90 season Detroit was 39-14(.736) against Chicago. If you include playoffs we were 51-20(.718)
How is this a rivalry?
Nice clip. miss that MJ.
Brad, why do you start with the 81-82 season, seems pretty arbitrary.
I would argue that the rivalry actually started with the very game that you are looking at a clip of. Jordan dropped 59 points for the Bulls in this win. This same season (1987-1988) playoffs, the Pistons knocked the Bulls out of the playoffs.
The next season (1988-1989), the Pistons were hot, and the Bulls and Pistons met again in the playoffs, the Eastern Conference Finals. Jordan dominated first few games, Bulls took a lead of 2-1 games, then Pistons won three straight by implementing the Jordan Rules. My favorite clips from this are the media interviewing various pistons, and i remember Bill Lambeer saying “Jordan Rules? is that something you guys made up?” with a sheepish grin on his face. so the pistons knocked the bulls off again.
The next season (1989-1990), Bulls and Pistons (top two records in the east) met again in the playoffs, again in the eastern conference finals. Great series which went to a game 7. Pitons won, in a weird game 7.
The next season (1990-1991), Bulls and Pistons met again in the Eastern Conference Finals. This time the Bulls swept em.
These seasons i think were really the heart of the rivalry. there was a lot else that took place, like the pistons walking off the court after losing to the bulls in the conf finals, with time left on the clock, etc. I think you guys had a video of that on this site sometime last season actually.