I read one that had Lamar Odom for Tayshaun Prince.

It made zero sense, like it makes zero sense now. They’re both point forwards, only one of us hasn’t been running the Tex Winter triangle, and it’s about an even swap. Then it hit me.

All these bajidiots (billions of idiots) write crap about our franchise, but they secretly want our players, for next to nothing, or just part-for-same-part trades. They despise the “Bad Boys,” hate this, that, but really, when it comes down to it, they’d love Rasheed helping their pathetic frigging team to their 1st-ever championship. Why? We do the same goddamn thing here, like Joe said. We praise Rasheed when he pulls a badass game, and we put him on the roasting spit when he turns in a 4 point, 5 foul game.

The real head-turner, for me, it’s the Flip Saunders poll on ESPN. A slight majority thinks Joe Dumars is an idiot for firing Flip, for whatever reason. “Best thing out there,” “treating a nice guy poorly,” or whatever other stupid shit. Then . . .

Down at the bottom, ESPN asked if these people would want Flip to coach THEIR favorite team.

Overwhelming “NO.”

http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/polling?event_id=3509

7) Would you want Flip Saunders coaching your favorite NBA team?

57.1% No
42.9% Yes

Total Votes: 22,793

Hmm.

I say, eff everyone and everything else. Trust in Joe Dumars until you can’t trust him. Count on Detroit being back in the mix with any kind of roster. Chuckle quietly when ESPN picks Chicago or Boston to win it all next year, whatever their bajidiots want to hear, it’ll be fit to print, believe that. And watch as it doesn’t work out that way. When we succeed, stick it to ‘em. Because they’ll never like “us,” even though they demand we like “them.”

These are my bloody gums, smiling.

Personally I’m just as pissed at Billups. Big contract, says he’s the face of the team, his nicknames are “Smooth” and “Mr. Big Shot”, and he was neither. He had alot to prove against Boston and never showed it.

I love all the dudes on our team but Joe knows what has to be done, and already made that clear bouncing Flip and putting a target on the starters. This is good.

On the other hand, it really is “no excuses” time. After losing to the Spurs in a game 7 in San Antonio in ‘05, the message was “get home court advantage.” So the Pistons won a zillion games in ‘05-’06, but lost to the Heat. The message there was, the starters were tired. Detroit didn’t fix that problem for ‘06-’07, but instead tried to bring back Webber to put them over the top, kind of like ‘Sheed did in ‘04. Webber had a bad playoffs, although so did pretty much everybody else in the finals. So the lesson for this year was “play the bench more.”

We played the bench more, although again, by the end, it was only Stuckey and Maxiell, with a few nice moments for Hunter. Still no backup for Tayshaun.

So again, I’m torn. Something has to happen, but it’s hard to figure out exactly what, and I would hate to see a panicky Suns/Mavs type move. Joe has made some great moves and not-so-great moves in the past. This will be his biggest challenge.

Meh. No more talk, just do something.

this p.c…. it’s a little unsettling. first, it seems like joe’s very very raw, both in the presser and on the radio. i know i don’t make very rational decisions when i get pissed. i can’t imagine joe is immune to such spells. second, i know he’s being honest about everyone being accountable and at fault and “everyone’s in play”, but isn’t it counterproductive for getting true value for your assets to say you’ve given up on this lineup and everyone’s available? it’s like something i would do in fantasy football when it’s week 8 and i’m 2-6. and it usually ends up with me dealing steve smith for mewelde moore and drew bennett.

i wish one of the honorable esteemed journalists would have followed up on dumars reference to “not being on the same page” in regards to flip’s performance this year. the sense i’m getting from these interviews is that it had a lot to do with not playing the young guys enough and specifically not playing amir, who he mentioned in the same sentence with stuckey of guys who can do things on our team that no one else can. but someone should have actually asked if that was the case.

i refuse to believe that if tayshaun prince just “wanted it more” that he’d have shot better against boston. i don’t disagree that a new voice may be beneficial, but i’m a lot less concerned about that than with playing our best players and getting better players.

“motivation…hunger…that element which give a killer instinct…”

I believe Curry was a driving factor in the motivation we DID have, namely from our bench, this last season. giving him the reins may be directly addressing this.