Rasheed Past vs. Rasheed Present

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Your only compe ion was a dismembered lakers team...

When you guys had a real finals challenge, rasheed played like ass in game 7 and on the road.....wait for it.............................you LOST man.

In your real finals challenge, you lost like lil es. Rasheed choked, Chauncy chunked up a three right into Bruce Bowen's hand, and Rip got shut down by Tony Parker.

You lost. And that was with Larry Brown. That was before the East seriously started gearing itself to beat the Pistons. It's gonna be rougher. The West has already been geared up to beat the Spurs. For 2 or 3 seasons actually.

Pistons have benefitted from a moderate difficulty schedule and a good coach and bad ass starting line. Now you will have a tougher road, a ty coach, and a bad ass startling line that has been played 38+ minutes a night.

LOL.

[Please_dont_ban_me]

Your only compe ion was a dismembered lakers team...

When you guys had a real finals challenge, rasheed played like ass in game 7 and on the road.....wait for it.............................you LOST man.

In your real finals challenge, you lost like lil es. Rasheed choked, Chauncy chunked up a three right into Bruce Bowen's hand, and Rip got shut down by Tony Parker.

You lost. And that was with Larry Brown. That was before the East seriously started gearing itself to beat the Pistons. It's gonna be rougher. The West has already been geared up to beat the Spurs. For 2 or 3 seasons actually.

Pistons have benefitted from a moderate difficulty schedule and a good coach and bad ass starting line. Now you will have a tougher road, a ty coach, and a bad ass startling line that has been played 38+ minutes a night.

LOL.

dis·mem·ber ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ds-mmbr)
tr.v. dis·mem·bered, dis·mem·ber·ing, dis·mem·bers
To cut, tear, or pull off the limbs of.
To divide into pieces.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dismembered







You do realize that happened after the Pistons took them to school, right?

You do realize the "dismemberment" led to one of the players (Shaq) leading his team to the Eastern Conference finals the next year. Right?


The Lakers were favored hugely. The Pistons molested them, unmercifully.

[JamStone]

Your only compe ion was a dismembered lakers team...

When you guys had a real finals challenge, rasheed played like ass in game 7 and on the road.....wait for it.............................you LOST man.

In your real finals challenge, you lost like lil es. Rasheed choked, Chauncy chunked up a three right into Bruce Bowen's hand, and Rip got shut down by Tony Parker.

You lost. And that was with Larry Brown. That was before the East seriously started gearing itself to beat the Pistons. It's gonna be rougher. The West has already been geared up to beat the Spurs. For 2 or 3 seasons actually.

Pistons have benefitted from a moderate difficulty schedule and a good coach and bad ass starting line. Now you will have a tougher road, a ty coach, and a bad ass startling line that has been played 38+ minutes a night.

LOL.

Not even worth it anymore. You're a joke, dude.

[Marklar MM]

Our starters play 36+ or so. What does that say about Duncan playing 35.3 with plantar fascitis? Bowen is 35 and playing 34 mpg. Parker plays 35.

Are an extra 2 minutes a game going to mess with Rip, Billups, and Ben who are some of the best conditioned athletes in the league. Tayshaun is the only one who needs to lose a few minutes.

[Please_dont_ban_me]

Our starters play 36+ or so. What does that say about Duncan playing 35.3 with plantar fascitis? Bowen is 35 and playing 34 mpg. Parker plays 35.

Are an extra 2 minutes a game going to mess with Rip, Billups, and Ben who are some of the best conditioned athletes in the league. Tayshaun is the only one who needs to lose a few minutes.

Plus, the addition of Cato will reduce Rasheed and Ben's minutes a little.

[Derek Fisher V0.4]

Your only compe ion was a dismembered lakers team...

When you guys had a real finals challenge, rasheed played like ass in game 7 and on the road.....wait for it.............................you LOST man.

In your real finals challenge, you lost like lil es. Rasheed choked, Chauncy chunked up a three right into Bruce Bowen's hand, and Rip got shut down by Tony Parker.

You lost. And that was with Larry Brown. That was before the East seriously started gearing itself to beat the Pistons. It's gonna be rougher. The West has already been geared up to beat the Spurs. For 2 or 3 seasons actually.

Pistons have benefitted from a moderate difficulty schedule and a good coach and bad ass starting line. Now you will have a tougher road, a ty coach, and a bad ass startling line that has been played 38+ minutes a night.

LOL.

Any team can beat a dismembered team.......so why couldnt your san antonio spurs do just that

oh i know
wait............
MICHAELS: ''They get it to Fisher...............HE SCORES

DEREK FISHER SCORES AT THE BUZZER!!!!!

0.4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PWNED!!!!

[nkdlunch]

Any team can beat a dismembered team.......so why couldnt your san antonio spurs do just that

oh i know
wait............
MICHAELS: ''They get it to Fisher...............HE SCORES

DEREK FISHER SCORES AT THE BUZZER!!!!!

0.4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PWNED!!!!

u're 2 years late, mate

[Derek Fisher V0.4]

u're 2 years late, mate

Tell that to CANT BE FADED he was the one who brought up that dismembered team from 2 YEARS AGO

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Pistons = spurs wannabes with a coach that can't win in the playoffs.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

You do realize the "dismemberment" led to one of the players (Shaq) leading his team to the Eastern Conference finals the next year. Right?

Eastern Conference Forum.

[Obstructed_View]

Alot of players don't want to be a go-to guy.

In fact, very few players want the ball in there hands in the clutch. The fact that he actually said it and was honest about it shouldnt' be a reason to villainise him.

LB didn't do anything, other than say "I believe in him. He's a good kid". But it was the same Sheed. He calmed down a little on the T's, but his game was almost the exact same. He'd shoot 3's, he'd post up...and Billups took most of the clutch shots.

You asked. I answered. The Blazers were paying him and were prepared to continue to pay him to be their superstar. He wasn't, didn't want to be, and didn't act like he was ever going to be. They traded him. The Rasheed in Portland and the Rasheed in Detroit are very different. Just count his technicals if you want tangible proof.

[bdubya]

Pistons = spurs wannabes with a coach that can't win in the playoffs.

Whistling past the graveyard.

[Darrin]

Guys, a little peace in our time. The Spurs won the series last season, take nothing away from that. The Pistons won the season before, don't take anything away from that. The last time I checked, Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson had never lost in the Finals before. The last time I checked, the Pistons entered that series as 7 to 1 underdogs.

The last time I checked, Shaquille O'Neal put up 36 points and 20 rebounds in a game, and LOST. The last time I checked, the Pistons became the first home team to sweep the middle 3 games of the 2-3-2 format.

In short, the Pistons didn't win against Los Angeles, they pounded them. Ask Shaquille O'Neal: "I believe I would be in LA still, if we had won the NBA Championship."

The Pistons did what Houston, San Antonio, and Minnesota couldn't do - beat the 2003-04 Los Angeles Lakers. If you expect the Pistons to respect the 2004-05 le, when the Pistons fought back from a 2-0 and 3-2 series deficit to tie the series each time, when the Pistons were playing their 2nd consecutive seven-game series, and lost the game in the final 12 minutes of the final game, then let's not cheapen the accomplishments of the 2003-04 Champions.

[DarkReign]

^ Dont speak logic to him. It makes his head hurt and his mouth make annoying sounds.

[Please_dont_ban_me]

You asked. I answered. The Blazers were paying him and were prepared to continue to pay him to be their superstar. He wasn't, didn't want to be, and didn't act like he was ever going to be. They traded him. The Rasheed in Portland and the Rasheed in Detroit are very different. Just count his technicals if you want tangible proof.

I already acknowledge his Technical fouls went down.

Other than that, he's still being paid the same. He's still playing the same style.

[Obstructed_View]

I already acknowledge his Technical fouls went down.

Other than that, he's still being paid the same. He's still playing the same style.

Actually he played a different style the two years he actually went to the Finals. He's back on the perimeter again now. We'll see if the Pistons have the talent to win that way.

[Marklar MM]

Actually he played a different style the two years he actually went to the Finals. He's back on the perimeter again now. We'll see if the Pistons have the talent to win that way.

Sheed is really hit or miss this year. He dominates games where he goes inside and outside, makes him hard to guard. But when he gets 3 happy, watch out. He will either be on fire, and make at least half, but there are some nights were he just doesn't stop shootin and goes for some number like 2-13, 1-12, etc.

[jochhejaam]

The Pistons were not 16-13 when they picked up Rasheed Wallace in 2003-04.

The Pistons were 34-23 ... 34-24 if you don't count the first game he played against Minnesota since he was not allowed to play in the second half due to mishandled paperwork.

The Pistons ended the season at 54-28.

So, after acquiring Rasheed Wallace, the Pistons ended that 2003-04 season 20-5, and won the le.

My bad, the Piston's did go from 16-13 to 33-16 that season but it was pre-sheed. Not sure what I was thinkin'.

[Darrin]

My bad, the Piston's did go from 16-13 to 33-16 that season but it was pre-sheed. Not sure what I was thinkin'.

You're not off-base, though. The Pistons went on a 13-game winning streak from December 29th to January 19th. Their high water mark came 7 games later (February 2nd) at 33-16. They preceded to lost six of their next seven to be 34-22 the day before they acquired Wallace.

The Pistons lost after Rasheed sat out the first game's 2nd half, gave away the next game in the final minute of to the 21-win Orlando Magic to have 1 win in their last 8 games. The Pistons, outside the win streak of 13 games, were 21-24 (.467).

The short of it is that they struggled. They didn't have an interior defender to compliment Ben Wallace (Cliff Robinson had been traded before the season). Larry Brown was using Mehmet Okur as a center for some reason (his height mostly), and the team as a whole was failing to grasp LB's system. Tayshaun Prince had too much pressure to be the third scorer of the team as a sop re player, the first as a starter. That's why the deal was done.

From that point on, they won 20 of 24 games, held 5 straight opponents under 70 points (8 overall), the first team in the shot-clock era to not have a double-digit scorer when they beat the Nuggets 97-66 in Denver, and spent the final two months with a +13.8 margin of victory (95.3 PF vs. 81.6 PA).

Two 30+ wins
Four 20+ wins
Eight +15 wins
Three + 10 wins
Three Single-digit wins

*NO WINS WITH MARGIN SMALLER THAN 8*
*NO DOUBLE-DIGIT LOSSES*

They preceded to beat a Milwaukee team that was the fourth seed in the conference until the last day of the season (Jalen Rose sent them from 4th to 6th on the last day of the season), the Two-Time Conference Champion New Jersey Nets, the team with the best record in the NBA (61-21) in the Indiana Pacers, and the pre-season favorite to win the Championship, the Los Angeles Lakers.