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Heat suck.
Believe it or not I rooted for Detroit tonight. I'm just stating facts.
Heat suck.
This Delfino/Evans crap gives me a freaking migraine. Delfino is so much better than "No D" Mo it's not even funny. Flip is playing favorites, and the Delfino is the one getting screwed. It's only a matter of time before he asks for a trade and blows up for another team. The guy has all of the skills to be a star in this league on both ends of the floor.
Hopefully Dumars will Pull a Prince/Curry. Carlisle played favorites with playing Curry over Tayshaun, so Dumars immediately traded Curry in the offseason.
Let me state a few facts of my own: I told you Detroit couldn't win this game. If the Pistons won, there would be some reason as to why, and if Detroit lost, it would be all-day, all-night "What's wrong with the Pistons?"
I point to the closing minutes of the game on ESPN. Lisa Salters did a report, not on how good the Detroit defense was against D-Wade, rather how he injured himself the game before. It's a built-in excuse.
The next moment, Bill Walton says the game turned when Alonzo Mourning went out, despite the Heat gaining a 10 game lead on the Pistons last season with a backup center named Michael Doleac, who is still on the Heat roster.
Mike Tirico then brings up that Home-court throughout guarantees nothing. The Pistons won game seven in Miami, if San Antonio doesn't make the big shot over Detroit in game five at the Palace, the Pistons could've won the series (never mind their were better examples to be had, like the 2004 Finals that didn't include a 'what if?'). He goes on to say that "Don't tell me San Antonio, Dallas, Miami, and Phoenix can't win the big game on the road."
Why all this negative press towards the Pistons? It has nothing to do with a bias, as my brethren will probably claim. Disney is going to have to broadcast a series between these two and if it appears that the team with the 9 1/2 game lead can't lose, guess who gets the bad end of the ratings? If the Pistons make the Finals, again, they have to have some suspense.
That's why they asserted this game was more important for the Pistons, than the Heat. As if the Heat didn't have anything to prove.
It's all about business. No one at ESPN gives a damn who wins these games, and they don't have favorites. The only thing they wish for is money.
ESPN loves the flavor of the week. It was the Pistons at first, then the Mavs/Spurs, and now it's the Heat. They always ride the bandwagon.
That is SO gay..Bill needs to come out of the closet.Walton slurping on "the body crafted by Michaelangelo in a dream..."
Look at that list: They are preparing for all potential teams in the NBA Finals. Tirico even through in the outside chance of New Jersey making the Conference Finals JUST IN CASE THE HEAT CHOKE! They don't care, as long as they don't end up backing the LA Lakers, Sacramento Kings, Dallas Mavericks, and say they don't care about the East when they wind up with San Antonio and New Jersey in the NBA Finals.
Everything ESPN has done since 2002-03 has been about ratings over basketball. It's why I want different broadcasting partners.
Last edited by Darrin; 03-22-2006 at 11:56 PM.
Not here....lol
The guy is JUST LIKE DARKO at practice...I have had a chance to go to a few practices the past few weeks and the kid just does not get it. Another case of the "I deserve to play...but I am not going to work hard for the PT" guy...whatever F him
He's actually not that bad at the Palace. He shoots .516 from the field, 20.0 ppg, 5.6 apg, 1.78 spg, and 2.89 tos. The Heat haven't done well. They are 2-8, including the playoffs, at the Palace in the Dwyane Wade era. The wins came in late December of 2004 when Wade had a triple-double (31 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists) and in Game 3 of last year's playoffs. They've had a couple of games like this one, a big early lead, and then they end up losing. But Wade has actually been okay in most of those games. He's had a couple where he's taken like 5 shots or something, but his percentage has stayed high.
Not here....lol
Last edited by Darrin; 03-23-2006 at 01:50 AM.
That's not what Flip says. Flip says the guy is in there before everyone, and he stays after everyone working on his game. Maybe the guys that don't look like they work hard in practice are just players that don't get a big opportunity in practice? Why should I assume practice is any different from the game? If Flip has no intention of playing Delfino why would he do anything different in practice?
Well... I've been to 2 games at the Palace that the Pistons lost against a Wade led Heat team. He had a triple double in the first one, and the other was the playoff game you were talking about.
I apolgize - that's 2-8. For some reason I thought that one of the Pistons alternate opponents (3 games for opponent in Conference, but outside Division) in 2005. I found the November game in the 04-05 season, and didn't see the December 30th game. Both the Heat's record, and his stats have been fixed.
Last edited by Darrin; 03-23-2006 at 01:50 AM.
Typical remarks from Shaq about the loss, "It wasn't anything they did". Okay then, you're team just sucks.
Contrast Shaq's remarks with Riley's, "We came out strong, but we couldn't finish it and you've got to give them credit," Riley said
A season low 34.9 percent by the Pistons and they still closed the game 47-26.
Wades 13 points (3-15 fg's) a season low.
Miami's 30 points in the 2nd half a season low.
Miami's 73 for the game a season low (previous low 76 at Dallas).
pistons made dwade look like a mvp pretender candidate
Maybe I'm just paranoid (okay, no "maybe" to it) but did it seem like a lot of the ads that ran happened to show the Pistons getting lit the up? The Pistons got a lot of screen time in the ad breaks, and the only bucket I saw in their favor was a dunk by some vermin from Ice Age 2.
That's what happens when you put Rip and Lindsey (and Delfino if Flip had a clue) on the quick slashers instead of Tayshaun. I think we'll see Rip on Manu in the playoffs if the Pistons/Spurs matchup. Rip has really seemed to step up his defense against elite players.
I think the Pistons are going to junk it up on D-Wade if they meet for an entire series. They can use Billups, Rip, Lindsey, Delfino, and Prince on Wade, and not have to worry about any of those combination of guards recovering to help in Jason Williams. I will admit this: The X-Factors for Miami are Jason Williams and Antoine Walker. When they were on, the Pistons had no answer for how the Heat were spreading the floor, opening things up for Shaq, even with Wade essentially taken out of the game offensively. The rotations off of help on the Heat's two big guns will have to be superb in the postseason. What the Pistons proved last night in the second half is that they can indeed do that.
But the last time the Pistons saw Walker in a playoff series, the results were not kind. They ran off 4 straight, and are the only team since the 1991 Bulls to win two games in the playoffs at the Palace. I am, of course, referring to the 2001-02 Boston Celtics that made the Conference Finals. Only Ben Wallace remains from that team, however. Useless trivia of the day ended.
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