Anyone going to the 10/05/2024 open practice?

Uncle Mxy · Post #1 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Wed Oct 2, 2024 5:15 pm

https://am.ticketmaster.com/pistons/buy/open_practice has the details

Uncle Mxy · Post #2 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 3:44 pm

They forgot to draw the NBA 3 point line at WSU Fieldhouse! LOL!

Uncle Mxy · Post #3 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 3:47 pm

Judging solely from his jersey, Cade's shrunk another inch.

Uncle Mxy · Post #4 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 3:52 pm

Ausar's on the bench, not the court, yawning.

Uncle Mxy · Post #5 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 4:06 pm

Scrimmage time. Duren is a man among boys.

Uncle Mxy · Post #6 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 4:14 pm

Tobias Harris not in the scrimmage. Not seeing much from Holland.

Uncle Mxy · Post #7 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 4:18 pm

Holland hits a three off a Sasser assist. Sasser keeping the white/bench team in it against the blue starter sorta.

Uncle Mxy · Post #8 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 4:23 pm

If Mason can't keep the names straight, how the heck am I supposed to?

Uncle Mxy · Post #9 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 4:25 pm

Almost no teal in this crowd. Good.

Uncle Mxy · Post #10 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 4:29 pm

DUNK CONTEST!

Uncle Mxy · Post #11 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 4:58 pm

Holland got robbed in the dunk contest. I will spare you the rookie sing-along. Signed shirts and balls were flying in the stands. Annnnd, it's ovah!

keepitrealhomes · Post #12 » by **keepitrealhomes** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 5:51 pm

Uncle Mxy wrote:Almost no teal in this crowd. Good.

You old heads gotta get over it, it’s easily one of the best and most popular color ways in the league

zeebneeb · Post #13 » by **zeebneeb** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 5:55 pm

keepitrealhomes wrote:
Uncle Mxy wrote:Almost no teal in this crowd. Good.

You old heads gotta get over it, it’s easily one of the best and most popular color ways in the league

All those who wear teal are my enemy, and an enemy of good basketball.

:wink:

keepitrealhomes · Post #14 » by **keepitrealhomes** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 6:38 pm

zeebneeb wrote:
keepitrealhomes wrote:
Uncle Mxy wrote:Almost no teal in this crowd. Good.

You old heads gotta get over it, it’s easily one of the best and most popular color ways in the league
All those who wear teal are my enemy, and an enemy of good basketball.

lmao I love my pistons, and I love a good color scheme, sue me :lol:

MortSahlfan · Post #15 » by **MortSahlfan** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 7:03 pm

Thanks for that... I used to go to all of them 20 years ago, when they were at UD before moving to The Palace

Post #16 » by **Snakebites** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 8:47 pm

zeebneeb wrote:
keepitrealhomes wrote:
Uncle Mxy wrote:Almost no teal in this crowd. Good.

You old heads gotta get over it, it’s easily one of the best and most popular color ways in the league
All those who wear teal are my enemy, and an enemy of good basketball.

The teal era begun with a 54 win season! I remember it fondly- it was the first season where I followed the team the whole year through. I started following basketball part of the way through the previous season (the last red/blue season before we went back in 2001.)

Canadafan · Post #17 » by **Canadafan** » Sat Oct 5, 2024 11:21 pm

MortSahlfan wrote:Thanks for that... I used to go to all of them 20 years ago, when they were at UD before moving to The Palace

Same. The good ol days

JNewton · Post #18 » by **JNewton** » Sun Oct 6, 2024 11:45 am

Snakebites wrote:
zeebneeb wrote:
keepitrealhomes wrote:
You old heads gotta get over it, it’s easily one of the best and most popular color ways in the league
All those who wear teal are my enemy, and an enemy of good basketball.

The teal era begun with a 54 win season! I remember it fondly- it was the first season where I followed the team the whole year through. I started following basketball part of the way through the previous season (the last red/blue season before we went back in 2001.)

Kinda crazy that 54-28 was only good for a 5 seed back in those days.

As for the teal, I'm OK with them using it as a throwback here and there like they did a few years ago, but hell no on ever bringing it back as anything more than that. The red jersey is the one they need to bring back, preferably the 2000s ones but I'd take the 1995 one as well. Enough of these black "DET" or dishwater gray monstrosities, please.

Uncle Mxy · Post #19 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sun Oct 6, 2024 11:53 am

I liked the open practices at Oakland U and the O'Rena the best. They were much longer, much bigger and energized crowd (Trump would be proud), with a better look at how the players were doing. And, you never saw them drawing up the NBA 3P line minutes before the game started. The Motor City Cruise play at WSU Fieldhouse, and I got the "4 free tickets at a game of my choice" promo as I left, so I'm going to check that out when I've assembled the right batch of 4.

The teal remark was simply because there was one lone guy decked out in teal -- hat, jersey, etc -- sitting a few rows behind Mason. It suddenly made me aware of how much teal there WASN'T in the building. In the original teal era, we were a .500 treadmill team, not really worth my ire. I didn't like the color, but whatever. But I grew to hate teal more as teal ribbons became associated with sexual assault and gynecological cancers. Now I see teal and want to give it the bird.

Post #20 » by **Snakebites** » Sun Oct 6, 2024 2:16 pm

JNewton wrote:
Snakebites wrote:
zeebneeb wrote:All those who wear teal are my enemy, and an enemy of good basketball.

The teal era begun with a 54 win season! I remember it fondly- it was the first season where I followed the team the whole year through. I started following basketball part of the way through the previous season (the last red/blue season before we went back in 2001.)

Kinda crazy that 54-28 was only good for a 5 seed back in those days.

As for the teal, I'm OK with them using it as a throwback here and there like they did a few years ago, but hell no on ever bringing it back as anything more than that. The red jersey is the one they need to bring back, preferably the 2000s ones but I'd take the 1995 one as well. Enough of these black "DET" or dishwater gray monstrosities, please.

Yeah I agree with all of this 100 percent.