Pistons-Spurs 5 Days Later

[nkdlunch]

I don't see them as being worse off this year. They have the 2nd best record in the NBA and not breaking a sweat yet.

[leemajors]

again, i don't see why pistons fans think larry brown is a reason they didn't repeat. he may have been a big distraction, but they still got to game 7 of the finals. lb didn't tell sheed to leave horry wide open, and it is my guess he did a of a job motivating them in the locker room before game 6 when the city of san antonio idiotically leaked plans for a victory parade. lb may have hurt some of his players feelings but i doubt any of them would blame him for them losing the series, they all respect him as a coach.

[Tanya]

again, i don't see why pistons fans think larry brown is a reason they didn't repeat. he may have been a big distraction, but they still got to game 7 of the finals. lb didn't tell sheed to leave horry wide open, and it is my guess he did a of a job motivating them in the locker room before game 6 when the city of san antonio idiotically leaked plans for a victory parade. lb may have hurt some of his players feelings but i doubt any of them would blame him for them losing the series, they all respect him as a coach.

I agree. In no way we should blame Larry Brown. But now I really prefer to have Flip as the team's coach. To people who say the piston will have less chance to win this year because Flip never won anything in playoffs: EVERY COACH HAS HIS FIRST LE! And the pistons will probably bring Flip the first one, more than Flip will bring the pistons the le. The pistons already know how to play great defense. And it showed when they played SA twice this year. On the other side, they are unexpected good at offense. See how many games they got 100+ points this year. This is a big surprise to me. If the pistons played like the way they are playing last year, they could win the Miami more easily than they did. And they were having larger chance to repeat a le. But still~ SA is very good team. They were better than the pistons last year. But this year these two teams are at the same level.

[funkeepickle]

I predicted Detroit would have HCA. They Will.

I predicted that since both games happened prior to the ASB Detroit would sweep the Spurs. They Did.

I predicted the Spurs would have HCA in the West, but barely. They will.

I predicted the Spurs would win the LOB trophy this year and lose no more than 5 games in the playoffs in doing so. We'll see.

Aren't you special . Wanna cookie?

Anyways, if you think this team is much worse off because we have Flip as our coach, that's just wishful thinking. The players are the ones who score the points, not the coaches. I'm not saying that coaching doesn't have an impact, because it does. I'm just saying it has a very limited impact. Flip here has opened up the offense while retaining most of the defensive intensity. We are 31-5 (on pace for 71) and outscoring our opponents by an average of 9 points per game. None of our starters crack the top 30 in minutes played. Our starters are averaging the same minutes as last year, maybe even a little less. Our starters didn't get burned out last year, what makes you think that they're going to get burned out this year?

[pjjrfan]

It was still an ass whipping that hasn't changed. And after tonights bucks game, the Spurs rebounding problems haven't changed either. Pat Riley when he was with the Lakers use to say "NO rebounds, No rings." The Spurs have to corral this problem, because it's becoming obvious enough that teams are going after the offensive boards big time.