It's been established. The Pistons are not a good team. Sure, you can point to the rally last night or the three game winning streak not too long ago and say, hey this team has something. Unfortunately that something has yet to manifest itself into some quality wins. They have a nice (and) little guard rotation and the rookies, well, they've contributed, sort of. The team doesn't matchup physically with teams like the Lakers and Celtics and yesterday they just looked outcoached. They are simply too small and I find it hard to believe that a healthy Rip Hamilton couldn't be traded for a quality big man.
What did Joe Dumars see in D.J. White that he didn't see in Chris Douglas-Roberts?
I'm still trying to figure out why Ben Wallace isn't wearing number 3 for the Pistons. What does a player have to do to get some recognition? I understand that Ben's duration as a Piston wasn't as long as some others hanging from the rafters, but his contribution was as equal. At the very least, they could have made it unavailable for a couple seasons and mulled it over. Well, now he's back and picking up where he left off. Maybe, when it's all said and done, they can retire the sum of both of his jersey numbers. Hopefully Chris Wilcox will be gone by then.
I was upset enough when Chauncey donned the number 1 jersey shortly after Lindsey Hunter wore it for the better part of a decade (That was just me being a die hard teenaged fan) but the transition from Billups to Iverson wearing it is something we can all look at and question. What the Pistons are essentially saying is that we will look back on that era of Pistons basketball and say " eh, it wasn't THAT good."
I feel a little silly calling Tuesday's game with the Lakers a "statement" game seeing what they've done since that tweet. It was more like a mumble.
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Good blog--Jerebko is stepping it up, I like his hustle.
ReplyDeleteBen Wallace is getting back to his old self. He had 0 points and 12 boards last night, Classic big ben. On the numbers, they really don't mean anything. 1,3,23,33, there all just numbers they don't determine the value of a player.
ReplyDeleteBen Wallace is doing well, but I do think they could be better as a team.
ReplyDeleteI dont think the pistons are a bad team they just lost some key players and need to learn to play without them. I work at the rec center and once ben wallace came in and played ping pong... he was terrible.
ReplyDeleteWallace doesn't need his old number back. He left the D for money, he could have stayed and kept it.
ReplyDeleteI don't have much hope for the team this year... they are just missing something. Good post.
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