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here we are the all time pistons team what do you think


SF Kelly Tripucka Tayshaun Prince
PF Rasheed Wallace Dennis Rodman
C Bob Lanier, Bill Laimbeer
SG Dave Bing Richard Hamilton
PG Isaiah Thomas Chauncey Billups

dantley.... grant hill.... i'd include those guys too... ben wallace?..... i dunno about sheed though.....

lindsey hunter also could be considered....

vinnie... yardley, spider, aguire... o and cut dantley...out of my first list

Vinnie Johnson? Joe Dumars? Dave DeBusschere? Grant Hill? Ben Wallace?

I'm sorry, but Tayshaun doesn't get on this list just yet and Rip is questionable as well. I love Rip and everything he has done. A few more years climbing all the Piston leader boards and he should be recognized, but right now, you need Dumars on there.

Ben played alot of center for us, but he started at PF and he did more for the Pistons than Rasheed.

Grant Hill didn't win any titles and left Detroit, but he was the most productive SF we ever had and did alot with very little.

And it's Isiah Thomas.

Thomas
Dumars
Hill
Rodman
Lanier

No offense, but if Dumars doesn't even find a place on your depth chart its time to rethink your choices.

Somebody said Mark Aguire over Adrian Dantley. Poor Dantley: he got traded just before the Pistons won a championship, and now he gets bumped again. I'm sentimental about his old moves, but man did he slow down the offense. Still, I don't like Aguire any better. Scratch both off the list.

tay prince?

Kelly Tripucka (though I loved him) is not a top 10 Pistons SF much less best SF.


PG Isiah/Billups
SG Bing/Dumars
SF Hill/Yardley
PF Debuschere/Rodman
C Lanier/Laimbeer

^ There aren't many organizations that could match that starting 5.

With the playing styles of that 5 they would have messed extremely well.
Each one was the prototypical player at his position.

Warspite wrote:Kelly Tripucka (though I loved him) is not a top 10 Pistons SF much less best SF.

PG Isiah/Billups
SG Bing/Dumars
SF Hill/Yardley
PF Debuschere/Rodman
C Lanier/Laimbeer

I like it with the exception of Hill. Grant, in his prime, was a better player than prince, but prince has:
a) won a championship with the Pistons
b) played here longer (7 years) than hill (6) and had much more success.

and tayshaun will probably stick around for quite a while longer. Prince was a better PISTON than Hill, even though Hill was the better player.

Hill was a disappointment, botching layups at inopportune times (he could really clank them) and not being quite the lockdown defender I expected him to be. Maybe their draft positions determined expectations and thus perceptions of them as players. I think it's a tough call between Prince and Hill--maybe it will be easier if Prince is a Piston for another two or three years.

Iverson is the second best player to ever wear the Pistons uniform. So these lists must only consider the respective careers while the players were Pistons? If that's the case Sheed is out of place on these lists.

itjustdo wrote:

Warspite wrote:Kelly Tripucka (though I loved him) is not a top 10 Pistons SF much less best SF.

PG Isiah/Billups
SG Bing/Dumars
SF Hill/Yardley
PF Debuschere/Rodman
C Lanier/Laimbeer

I like it with the exception of Hill. Grant, in his prime, was a better player than prince, but prince has:
a) won a championship with the Pistons
b) played here longer (7 years) than hill (6) and had much more success.

and tayshaun will probably stick around for quite a while longer. Prince was a better PISTON than Hill, even though Hill was the better player.

Is Prince the best player in the NBA? Is he better than MJ?

Grant Hill was the best player in the NBA and yes he outplayed MJ and he was better than him. I just think too many people have forgotten how good Hill was. 21ppg 9rpg 7apg or maybe 25ppg 6rpg 5apg. "Can Grant Hill save basketball?" Thats the title on the magazine cover with Grant Hill.

Yah, he was good; he wasn't the best player in the league. His best scoring season (1999-2000), I don't know that he was a top five player: you'd have to compare him with Shaq, Malone, Duncan, Garnett, Bryant, Mourning, (any others?) all players I would have rather had on the Pistons. But we'll have to distinguish: best player in a Piston uniform; most successful and productive player in a Piston uniform; played with Pistons how many minimum years?

Hill did brick too many layups, and it killed me.

woah. tell me you didn't just write that Grant Hill was better than MJ.

Here's the stat for Tayshaun Prince: 82, 82, 82, 82, 82.

Guys Grant Hill is the SF for the pistons My bad. This is a great debate check out other teams I am doing this on all of them.

The 5 best franchises are the 76ers Lakers, Celtics, Warriors and Jazz IMHO. The celtics and Lakers could put out 2 teams that could be top 15 teams.

Jazz: Stockton/Pistol/Dantley/Malone/Eaton

Warriors: Run TMC Barry and Wilt

76ers: Cheeks/Greer/DrJ/Charles/Wilt Moses as 6th man