If this is as worse as it gets, I’m sure it’s perfectly fine. It’s not perkisabeast type trash talking so…

You guys run a tight ship over at CB, it’s actually pretty cool.

We don’t need ambassadors like you giving Celtics fans a bad name around this fine Pistons community. Please clean your act up. Otherwise it may come back to haunt you where you live. As far as I’m concerned you need to operate over here under the same set of rules you do on CB and that starts with respecting others and being civil.

I don’t remember, so maybe someone can refresh my memory..

he’s broken his nose 2 or 3 times and if he breaks it again it could be a serious problem… so, that leads me to this question: if you were averaging 20 points a game on a title contender, wouldn’t you wear a mask too? just sayin… stick to what you know boston fans…

You may want to go to your fan sites though and read the drivel your kind are saying about your team’s bench before you tell us to pin our hopes on “Stuckey and Co.”.

If muddling through the season means winning 26 out of 34 games, I’ll be perfectly satisfied with that. You just keep hoping Tony Allen and Eddie House can dribble the ball across center court when your 2nd team is in… Let me know if those 2 can beat the press when you’re at the TD Banknorth Arena (not the real Garden) in March.

I’ll check in with you folks again in March, when I’m at the Garden watching your the Cs beat these Pistons again. Enjoy you’re second best team muddle through the rest of the regular season, and keep praying that Stuckey and Co. can bring something to the picnic, because the Pistons are going to need it.

If the Bad Boys were third-rate champions, then this Celtics team will be no better than the mid-90’s Rockets (probably the most forgettable back-to-back title winners ever IMO).

***I’ll always love Hakeem though!

I don’t remember asking and could care less.

You typed out that much and couldn’t even respond to my main point; the Pistons have a brighter furture than the Celtics who have a title contention window of about three years.

Joe D has stacked the bench with a group of players that are capable of being a strong core of layers with Maxiell, Stuckey, Afflalo, Johnson, etc…

These are all young guys with a lot of promise. Not to mention they’re being mentored by the best collective starting unit in the game. Keep hating all you want.

I brought up your CURRENT team and its future, all you could do was bring up the old Bad Boys and Bird era Celtics.

If you’re going to provide me with a reasonable rebuttal, at least respond to my criticisms of your CURRENT team. Yoo call Rip a pussy for wearing the mask, then follow that up with how you think the Pistons are a pretty good team.

You start the next paragraph with, ” I just don’t think they will be able to beat the Cs in the playoffs, if they meet.”

That’s all you needed to say. The shit you wasted our time with above and below that sentence wasn’t thought out and was poorly executed.

Just hope for that title this year or next year, even both, because after that, you won’t have a basketball team in Boston to be excited about for a long time.

I won’t go so far as to club Glen Davis either, because after the 1 great game he had against Detroit, he still hasn’t done anything. There’s a reason why he fell/slipped/ate his way to the 2nd round of the NBA draft, and it’s not because he’s talented. He is an Oliver Miller clone, and as a Celtics’ fan from the 70’s, you have seen a lot of players come and go through that system that have been better than Glen Davis. You do have to give the man credit though, he’s quickly learning how to mean mug like KG, and he sure doesn’t miss layups when the help defense leaves him open 2 ft from the basket… man, those intagibles! You wanted to jump on Dumars for his lottery pick (Darko), but I’ll say that after watching Rodney Stuckey, Amir Johnson, Cheikh Samb, and even an Arron Afflalo, I’d take all 4 of them over a Gerald Green, a Kendrick Perkins, Gabe Pruitt, Big Fatty, Ryan Gomes, Troy Bell, etc…any day of the week. All of the good guys the team has drafted have been included in trades for scrubs except the Garnett deal. I’d be more afraid of this team if you still had Joe Johnson, Ron Mercer, Acie Earl, Randy Foye, Jeff Green… of course I’m kidding about Mercer and Earl…

BTW: Since I guess I root for a team that didn’t score ONE (nice emphasis) point in the paint in the 2nd half of the biggest home game of the year, then I should be pissed right? You know why I’m not pissed? Because I know that out of all the post players on both rosters, Detroit’s big men could easily dominate the post against a soft KG, Big Fatty, Posey, Flopper Pollard, Leon Powe, etc.. It was done in the 1st game at Boston, go back and watch the tape. KG cannot guard Rasheed Wallace, I’ve said it from day one, and until KG contests Rasheed or McDyess, I’ll continue to say it.

Re: the Pistons’ snub to the Bulls:

“The Pistons were upset because they felt the Bulls leaked information about Dennis Rodman’s personal life. Scottie Pippen made reference to it during a stop in action, which angered Rodman. Later in the game Rodman lost his composure and shoved Pippen a few rows into the seats near where Pistons owner Bill Davidson sat.

So, in the final moments of a 115-94 loss in Game 4 the Pistons walked off the court without shaking hands. Most of the Pistons would apologize for the walkout.”

And for someone with a supposed sense of Celtics history, you have a selective memory:

Three years earlier, Pontiac Silverdome. The then-young Pistons had a 3-2 lead on the Boston Celtics and needed to put them away. With less than a minute remaining, the Celtics pulled that same “bitch move” that Wiley was talking about. Birdman, DJ, Ainge and the Chief all walked off the court before telling the Pistons, who endured far more heartbreak than the Bulls had. Only man that had the cojones to shake hands with the Pistons was Kevin McHale. Did anyone call the Celtics sore losers? Not to my knowledge. Did the Pistons disrespect the old guard? No record of it.

Not that I want to have to explain everything to you, but Rip’s mask is basically a necessity — he broke his nose 2-3 times in a short period of time one season, and doctors told him to wear the mask or risk “significant nasal reconstructive surgery.”

The “Bad Boy” Pistons, to me, were a third rate champion, who were shown some class and respect when they finally defeated the aging Celtics (McHale and Co. congratulating them and urging them to beat the Lakers), but didn’t have the character to show the same class when MJ and the Bulls finally vanquished them. Joe Dumars is a classy and obviously smart man, but Isiah is a piece of crap, plain and simple.

This current Pistons team certainly have to be lauded as a team oriented bunch, the first “Ensemble Cast” to win a championship in two decades (meaning a team without a dominant, Top 20 of all time player). Despite the antics of the childish Rasheed Wallace, there’s not a lot to dislike on this team (Dice coming back from a devastating injury, Chauncey perserving despite being bounced all over the league, Prince playing team oriented, defensive minded ball). The Hamilton fasemask is a little much, I guess, but if the guy is so much of a pussy that he needs to wear a quasi football helmet to play basketball, so be it. Maybe he should wear some thigh pads for those chicken bones he runs around on. The Pistons play a boring brand of basketball, without any “I’ve gotta watch this guy” players, but all in all they are a very good team.

I just don’t think they will be able to beat the Cs in the playoffs, if they meet. It will be interesting to see if they handle their de-thronement with class, or with the same old Pistons lack of class. If they take afteer the behavior of some of the fans that attend their games, the answer will be obvious.

PS: As far as the Celtics’ drafting goes, they had enough good young players to trade for the Big Ticket, and were smart enough to draft a certain gigantic second rounder named Glenn Davis, who single handedly destroyed your beloved team in one quarter of basketball.

BTW: If I rooted for a team who didn’t score ONE point in the paint in the entire second half of the biggest home game of the year against the one team with a better record, I’d be pissed.

You’re not a Pistons fan, don’t pretend to take one’s perspective.

Pistons and Spurs are the only two teams I would ever feel comfortable having real money on in this league. These two teams playoff experience over the least five years has given their fans what has been essentially an extra season’s worth of games. Watching the Pistons and Spurs continue to play through May has become so normal that it’s expected. See if Boston can replicate that over the next five seasons.

I don’t even see that team being around for more than three years. They spent a lot of money on Jesus and KG.

What’s funny to me is, none of you Boston fans want to get into talks about your team five years from now. Must be hard knowing the Pistons have a brighter outlook with the young guys they have than do the Celtics. So live it up Boston fans, the clock’s ticking…