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ok...that is just stupid!
Miami still ing, 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.
ok...that is just stupid!
LOL ... you were "rid of them" when they walked off your court after Game 7
Wonder if this is the same ass who sainsinuated the MVP was race related.
wow that is pretty bad when the media starts rooting for the other team because they are so bitter about losing to them.
I know it is so funny. I cannot believe an editor would let this in the paper
i am not, think about it what else do they have to right about, the marlins, the dolphins, they have nothing. But unfortunataley they still have a sports section and they have writers without the ability to analyse a game and right a real take on the series. So they make it personal so people will still read the paper, it makes them feel like they still have something to root for.
i agree with him
Ya...it's whining. Pretty much the same thing they are accusing Detroit of doing. Sour grapes.
But, you gotta admit...if I hear one more "we don't get no respect, nobody loves us, our backs have been up against the wall since the Cambrian period..."
I like and respect the Pistons...they are sure showing their toughness on the court. But, there are times...
It's not stupid. The Pistons are STILL complaining about the officiating. They complain when they lose and they complain when they win. They are a bunch of whiners who cannot accept responsibility for their own mistakes. They clobber our guys and then complain they didn't get the calls they should have when they were not called but for a small number of the fouls they committed. They area bunch of whiny babies!
A hate whining about the refs. When Tim complained about a travel call last night, Billups drained a 3!
You have to admit, the Pistons are a little whiney, except maybe for Chauncey.
The article is right about Detroit being crying ass babies. They get their calls that way and luck out way too much. The rest was junk.
I think even Detroit fans get a little upset at the meltdowns and whining of someone like Rasheed.
It don't make them any less potent or great a team. It's just...well, annoying at times.
One thing I don't get upset at the SPURS for...they don't whine as much as most teams. There are "plenty" of other things I get upset with the Spurs for tho...whining ain't one of 'em.
muhme show: well, the Pistons fans are still complaining about the officiating in the Miami series and they are complaining after every game in this series. Just whine, whine, whine. It doesn't matter if they win or lose, they are complaining! Sheed is constantly in the officials' faces. If the Spurs were to do that, they would get T'd but Sheed just keeps running his mouth and gets nothing except for finally ONE call last night after doing this in ALL the games.
i was gonna say the same .....about the whining...
And then they add insult to injury...when pictures show clearly a foul they whine about being ALL BALL!
Miami still ing, 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.
Look you really need to calm down because the Spurs are going to get they ass whooped tommorrowso watch yo mouth and fear the
Watch out Spurs fans...the people that think Rip is "hottttt" have arrived. Prepare for countless threads on the subject, and the degradation of your message board.
Last night a foul was called on the Spurs....the Pistons were ahead in the game and Larry Brown started ing at the ref about an earlier call which didn't go his way, so he gets called for a technical. WTF?? If things mostly go your way, why keep ing? Our guys are class all the way on stuff like that. IMHO.
GO SPURS GO!!!
Um one of the NBA refs hates the Pistons and calls the Pistons on everything.
ok the guy is just an id*iot.
Everyone that watched the playoffs CLEARLY and DEFINITELY saw the refs make much more mistakes and dubious calls AGAINST the Pistons (i am from Europe and frankly don't give a sh*it who wins the NBA - i'm just STATING A FACT!)
Be it Shaq, Wade or Ginobili: the refs were a disaster.
we damn right will do it. But we won't do it for Fat Shaq and his crew.
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