Artest Reenacts Palace Brawl
I found this video over at Fanhouse and I’m not sure if it makes me like Ron Artest more or hate him more. He just seems like a jackass. But it is funny how he screwed the Pacers franchise because of this story!
Pistons, Dumars Get Unfair Treatment
If you happen to make it to foxsports.com today you will see a link to this video. In it, Randy Hill talks for 1:45 about the situation in Detroit. I try not to get my hometown teams too involved in this site, but I couldn’t let this one go. I have four beefs with this little segment.
- Hill mentions that Curry never had much of a chance: This is a common thought, but let’s all be honest, Curry was brutal as the head coach. He would use the oddest of substition and lineup patterns, he somehow managed to piss off Rip Hamilton (by supposedly not personally talking to him), and he got swept by, albeit, a better Cavs team.
- Oh my goodness, Darko is back! Hill tries to paint a picture that this is pretty much all Dumars’ fault. Why? Well, he picked Darko over Carmelo and Bosh. For the last time, the Pistons don’t win a championship without that ill-fated move. There is no Rasheed Wallace that pushed them over the top. It was one pick in 2003 (6 years ago), can we move on? Furthermore, don’t be surprised if Bosh is wearing a Pistons uniform next season.
- Bill Laimbeer will not coach this team. There is no way that they would try another rookie NBA coach. Not going to happen so why even bring it up on a national website?
- Hill doesn’t admit that Dumars has a plan. Sure, he traded my favorite player ever in Chauncey for a team intrusion that is AI, but if he doesn’t make that move there is not much of a future here. They would have lost before the NBA Finals, and they would not have nearly the cap room they have now, meaning long rebuilding process.
The fact is Dumars could turn out to be a very smart man. He brings in a veteran coach in Doug Collins, makes a trade for someone north of the border *cough, signs Gordon and Villanueva, and the biggest down year is losing in the first round of the playoffs. That sounds like a pretty amazing rebuilding process to me.
Breaking: Allen Iverson Gone For Season
We just learned that AI is done for the season, and he is most likely done as a Piston.
“After talking with Allen and our medical staff, we feel that resting Allen for the remainder of the season is the best course of action at this time,” said Dumars. “While he has played in our last three games, he is still feeling some discomfort and getting him physically ready to compete at the level he is accustomed to playing this late in the season does not seem possible at this point.”
It seems painfully obvious that Dumars went to AI and said “either you shut your mouth or we should mutually agree to sit you for the year.” In any case, Iverson has done himself no favors for picking up a big contract this year. Detroit won’t resign him. After a year that he struggled both offensively and defensively, who wants him? His most recent comments, although blown a little out of proportion, were ridiculous in any sense. No team wants to deal with a guy whose talent has dwindled to a point that he isn’t even a clear cut starter on an elite team. It will be interesting to see what happens from here.
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