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06-22-2005, 12:37 PM
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Miami still bitching, this is great! Honestly I love this as a Piston Fan.
Detroit's crying game is wearing thin
Commentary by Michael Cunningham
Sun-Sentinel
Posted June 21 2005
It's up to you, San Antonio Spurs.
Please do us a favor and finish off the Detroit Pistons in the Finals. Please spare us another year of what has to be the most annoying NBA champion since, well, those Pistons championship teams of 1989 and '90.
Put the Pistons in their place, which should be far away from the spotlight that forces us to notice their constant crying. And please, Spurs, do it in Game 6 tonight so we don't have to spend another day hearing about how the Pistons are just so, so resilient.
If the Pistons' backs are against the wall tonight, Spurs, make it because you slammed them into it. Force them to take their last breath, which they surely will use to whine.
The latest example: The Spurs won Game 5 in overtime at Detroit on Sunday, a big victory in a tense, tight game. But then Pistons guard Richard Hamilton, who missed the last shot under tight defense by Tony Parker, had to go and say, "The ref didn't want to make a call and so we lost."
Someone tell Hamilton the ref didn't want to make a call because you didn't get fouled!
Listen closely to the Pistons and notice they lose because:
a) They got the shots they wanted, they just didn't go in.
cool.gif They messed up.
c) The refs made bad calls.
Every team complains about calls, but only the Pistons do it after every loss, call and dribble.
The Spurs must stop this. Well, maybe not stop it, because the Pistons will cry as long as Larry Brown is the coach, but you can at least make their whimpering go away for the summer.
Then we can get away from Tayshaun Prince, Detroit's long-limbed forward, who sticks out those spindly arms and shrugs his slight shoulders at yet another call.This Whining Pterodactyl should be extinct, never to return to the Finals.
We can do without Hamilton's Tap-Dancing Tantrums, when he hops up and down and stomps his feet like a child while pointing out to the ref exactly where his big brother ... er, his opponent, touched him.
We've seen enough of Ben Wallace's Afro Pout -- he scores and immediately turns to an official to let him know that he was fouled, fouled, fouled! No one will miss Rasheed Wallace's Full-Court Cry, done on the move, or Chauncey Billups' Woof Whine, a forceful growl at an offending ref.
All of this is led by Brown. The Crying Coach's claims of persecution set the tone for this team, which deserved its championship last year but apparently didn't get any of the class that's supposed to come with it.
The Pistons scream that they want respect, apparently not realizing that their cries make it that much harder to give it to them. Detroit hands out half-hearted compliments to its opponents, always followed by enthusiastic excuses.
Is this what Brown means when he says that the Pistons do things the "right way?" Is this what Joe Dumars had in mind when building a "high-character" team?
There are things to like about the Pistons -- their commitment to defense, offensive balance and toughness.
But it's impossible to admire those things for long before the Pistons ruin it with their crying. Even their own fans must acknowledge this in private moments.
So please, Spurs, beat the Pistons so we can be rid of them. Then we'll have a great champion, not a grating one.
Miami still bitching, this is great! Honestly I love this as a Piston Fan.
Detroit's crying game is wearing thin
Commentary by Michael Cunningham
Sun-Sentinel
Posted June 21 2005
It's up to you, San Antonio Spurs.
Please do us a favor and finish off the Detroit Pistons in the Finals. Please spare us another year of what has to be the most annoying NBA champion since, well, those Pistons championship teams of 1989 and '90.
Put the Pistons in their place, which should be far away from the spotlight that forces us to notice their constant crying. And please, Spurs, do it in Game 6 tonight so we don't have to spend another day hearing about how the Pistons are just so, so resilient.
If the Pistons' backs are against the wall tonight, Spurs, make it because you slammed them into it. Force them to take their last breath, which they surely will use to whine.
The latest example: The Spurs won Game 5 in overtime at Detroit on Sunday, a big victory in a tense, tight game. But then Pistons guard Richard Hamilton, who missed the last shot under tight defense by Tony Parker, had to go and say, "The ref didn't want to make a call and so we lost."
Someone tell Hamilton the ref didn't want to make a call because you didn't get fouled!
Listen closely to the Pistons and notice they lose because:
a) They got the shots they wanted, they just didn't go in.
cool.gif They messed up.
c) The refs made bad calls.
Every team complains about calls, but only the Pistons do it after every loss, call and dribble.
The Spurs must stop this. Well, maybe not stop it, because the Pistons will cry as long as Larry Brown is the coach, but you can at least make their whimpering go away for the summer.
Then we can get away from Tayshaun Prince, Detroit's long-limbed forward, who sticks out those spindly arms and shrugs his slight shoulders at yet another call.This Whining Pterodactyl should be extinct, never to return to the Finals.
We can do without Hamilton's Tap-Dancing Tantrums, when he hops up and down and stomps his feet like a child while pointing out to the ref exactly where his big brother ... er, his opponent, touched him.
We've seen enough of Ben Wallace's Afro Pout -- he scores and immediately turns to an official to let him know that he was fouled, fouled, fouled! No one will miss Rasheed Wallace's Full-Court Cry, done on the move, or Chauncey Billups' Woof Whine, a forceful growl at an offending ref.
All of this is led by Brown. The Crying Coach's claims of persecution set the tone for this team, which deserved its championship last year but apparently didn't get any of the class that's supposed to come with it.
The Pistons scream that they want respect, apparently not realizing that their cries make it that much harder to give it to them. Detroit hands out half-hearted compliments to its opponents, always followed by enthusiastic excuses.
Is this what Brown means when he says that the Pistons do things the "right way?" Is this what Joe Dumars had in mind when building a "high-character" team?
There are things to like about the Pistons -- their commitment to defense, offensive balance and toughness.
But it's impossible to admire those things for long before the Pistons ruin it with their crying. Even their own fans must acknowledge this in private moments.
So please, Spurs, beat the Pistons so we can be rid of them. Then we'll have a great champion, not a grating one.