Comments on: Pistons hope to blast off on Rockets

By: IsraeliPiston

IsraeliPiston — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:51:58 +0000

Lucas
Congratulations - but to compete as a one l at UofM you won’t even have time to read about the Pistons let alone watch the game. Good luck and if you have time buy yourself a copy of ONE L by Scott Turrow

By: Mike Payne

Mike Payne — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:09:34 +0000

I wonder if they’ll hire VanGremlin…

By: colin

colin — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:34:46 +0000

Does anyone else wonder why Jarvis continues to get consistent tick? He plays like he thinks he’s still in DC. He’s got a decent stroke when he’s got time to set up, but most games I find myself screaming at the t.v. because he just hoisted an atrocious turn around. Let’s give Fabio a chance. At the very least, benching Jarvis for a couple weeks and letting Fabio get some reps might send a message that it’s no ok to take multiple horrible shots in one game. I don’t understand Flip Saunders sometimes.

By: Fel

Fel — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:57:55 +0000

Whoa…I could totally see the Bulls hiring Rick Carlisle and becoming the Chicago Pistons. In all honesty he would be a good hire imo.

I think there are slow starts and then there are will we even make the playoffs?/maybe we should blow this team up type starts. Chicagos start was more of the latter imo. Seems like you can spread the blame pretty easily…Players not able to play under all the trade/contract speculation…a coach intense to the point of obnoxiousness…and a gm that seems scared to make a move to make his team better.

I would blame the GM. Get some balls and make a move. I mean do any Bulls fans honestly think they can win a championship with this team as its currently constructed? Past nine championships all had great big men, Shaq, Duncan, Sheed.

Waitaminute…this is Chicago Im talking about…the worse they do the better hehe

Merry Christmas everyone

By: V

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:21:49 +0000

Lucas, you won’t be seeing too many games in person as a 1L, trust me. You won’t have the time. But congratulations on your acceptance anyway, you must be one pretty sharp young man.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:40:15 +0000

I know that I dont post too much here, so I’m going to add a little bit. I’m from Austin and bc of other peoples choices I ended up in Lubbock going to Texas Tech. It’s pretty hard to follow the Pistons.

With that explained, I got accepted today into Michigan Law School! Plenty of games in person to come! (Without having to sit in the middle of Spurs fans)

By: waltonlikesmen1

waltonlikesmen1 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:31:02 +0000

DAMN! YOU GOTTA LOVE BEING A PISTONS FAN!

By: waltonlikesmen1

waltonlikesmen1 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:27:07 +0000

Personally, I think this move only helps out the Pistons. Skiles seemed to make the Bulls over-achieve and play the same type of grind it out stlye that Larry Brown helped instill in Detroit. That’s not to say that they ever executed as well or had the roster the Pistons have, but they did seem to be improving the last few years and defintely have shown flashes of potential, especially against Detroit over the last few regular season meetings. Unfortunately for Bulls fans, this team is too young to absorb a coaching change without it coming at the cost of regular season games. Who knows though, maybe this team just really wasn’t meant to be. Honestly, I’ve never understood the expectations of greatness Chicago fans have held for Kirk Hinrich over the past couple of seasons. Ben Gordon is a streaky shooter that usually seems to pick up quick fouls in important games, and Big Ben left the team that suited his strongest abilities perfectly (I’ll quickyl admit I want Ben back and always will, that was my favorite starting five ever). All in all, I see the Bulls continuing to struggle for a while. Making the playoffs will now be thier struggle, a concept that will be hard to swallow for most of their players. I could care less if they seem to be turning it around for ten to twenty games, this team just ain’t got it.

By: V

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:18:43 +0000

Apparently, Mark Stein reads DBB…and listens lol. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&id=3167996

By: PistonsGirl4Life

PistonsGirl4Life — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:32:58 +0000

Not gonna do it…. nope, not gonna touch that topic.

Merry Christmas Pistonsland!

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:06:24 +0000

Nazr’s playing well for the Bobcats. I’m glad we could find him a home. It wasn’t with us for whatever reason.

Although this is off topic… I don’t get why some people don’t want Chris Webber on the Pistons. Last year he was good enough to be our starting center and this years he’s not good enough to be on our team?!? When playoffs come around, would you rather have Brezec, Amir, or CW playing 10 minutes? Granted his D is suspect, but the man knows basketball. Btw, I’m a Spartan… so there’s no homer-isms going on here. He can contribute. if we can’t get rid of Flip Murray by the trade deadline, then buy his contract out and pick up Webber, that’s my take.

By: IsraeliPiston

IsraeliPiston — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:13:17 +0000

Merry Christmas to everyone

I really do not think Dumars outmaneuvered Paxton re Ben Wallace. Why? Because Dumars had not plan b for not signing Ben and we got stuck with a very hasty replacement in Nazr

Dumars made Ben what was an extremely fair offer and Ben did not take it.

There was an article about Dumars and Karma in the press where Dumars says do the right thing have good Karma and good things will happen to you. Well with Ben it worked out well for Dumars and the Pistons.

By: V

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:05:39 +0000

Skiles caught a bad break there. If only the Bulls could get up for playing the rest of the schedule like they do playing Detroit.

There’s been some excellent discussion here and in other threads about Paxson’s (questionable) GM skills, and Dumars basically outmaneuvering him, or letting Pax outmaneuver himself, re the Big Ben signing. When David Stern passes an edict that Dumars should be banned from trading with Michael Jordan, he might want to throw in a clause or two regarding Pax. I mean, Skiles wasn’t the guy who signed a past his prime center who doesn’t even play the 4Q anymore to $18M/yr.

As for Skiles, he’s got a lot of intensity and the players may tune him out quicker than other coaches. Players will always blame the coach when they’re losing, but I think Pax pulled the plug way too quickly here. It will be interesting who will be the replacement. That being said, I like Skiles as a coach, and think he won’t be unemployed too long.

By: Quick Darshan

Quick Darshan — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:36:45 +0000

Merry Christmas, Scott Skiles.

By: joejoejoe

joejoejoe — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:25:11 +0000

LawyerBoy - It’s easier to fire the coach than rework half your roster. If Skiles lost younger players to the point where they weren’t performing then their asset value decreases. You can’t have that as a GM so you fire the coach.