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thruthefire · Post #141 » by **thruthefire** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:08 pm

I'd love Collins here. He would hold everyone accountable, not just a couple of players.

HornetJail · Post #142 » by **HornetJail** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:40 pm

I like Collins a lot more than I like Dunlap, but the thing is he seems to wear out his welcome wherever he goes within a couple years. When things go south he holds everyone a little too accountable if you know what I mean. I don't know if he's patient enough for a rebuilding team like us that will be bottom five for at least another year.

catch20two · Post #143 » by **catch20two** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:02 pm

I don't want no Doug Collins as our head coach. I'd rather take a chance on Sam Cassell aka ET.

HornetJail · Post #144 » by **HornetJail** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:17 pm

catch20two wrote:I don't want no Doug Collins as our head coach. I'd rather take a chance on Sam Cassell aka ET.

As long as he wears a mask. Our game is ugly enough. We don't need an ugly coach too.

Eoghan · Post #145 » by **Eoghan** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:02 pm

Doug Collins sucks. He's always been overrated. He's like Larry Brown lite.

Liver_Pooty · Post #146 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:08 pm

Biz Gilwalker wrote:
catch20two wrote:I don't want no Doug Collins as our head coach. I'd rather take a chance on Sam Cassell aka ET.

As long as he wears a mask. Our game is ugly enough. We don't need an ugly coach too.

Lol

thruthefire · Post #147 » by **thruthefire** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:25 am

Steph Curry is putting on the best shooting performance I have ever seen in my life right now.

Post #148 » by **BigSlam** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:34 am

Equally amazing to me is that the Warriors have shot 53% from the floor so far (2 1/2 mins to go in the 4th) and Chandler STILL has 27 rebounds!!

HornetJail · Post #149 » by **HornetJail** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:40 am

Oh my goodness Curry.

Post #150 » by **Diop** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:01 am

11/13 3pters

Got to be one of the best shooting games of all time.

messed_up_todd · Post #151 » by **messed_up_todd** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:01 am

That was one hell of a game. Curry put on an absolute show

Post #152 » by **Diop** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:07 am

HornetJail · Post #153 » by **HornetJail** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:10 am

5th player to record 11 threes and took the fewest to get there. Major, major props.

Post #154 » by **Diop** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:18 am

I love how you get random names in some of these records like Donyell Marshall, George McLoud

Post #155 » by **fatlever** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:07 am

i finally saw the curry highlights. wow.

Post #156 » by **Diop** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:24 am

massive game for pussy foot as well.

thruthefire · Post #157 » by **thruthefire** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:19 am

Top six point guards right now:
Paul
Parker
Irving
Westbrook
Curry
Lawson

NC boys doing us proud.

countryboi · Post #158 » by **countryboi** » Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:01 pm

DJ white must have been fat and out of shape because the Cs passed on him for Shavlik Randolph

MasterIchiro · Post #159 » by **MasterIchiro** » Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:33 pm

Greg Monroe and his agent seem like they want him to reach free agency. He's a restricted free agent after next season.

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/22 ... th-Pistons

Imagine if Detroit trades him and decides to rebuild again in 2014-2015. The draft at the end of that season is the one where our DET pick would be unprotected after #1 overall.

Post #160 » by **fatlever** » Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:28 pm

serious question here combining my two favorite things - basketball and geography...

how do you think the economic situation in detroit will impact the pistons over the next decade? can a franchise located in (near) a city with such widespread financial, growth decline, and crime problems continue w/out any noticeable problems either in terms of retaining players, attracting free agents, generating advertising dollars from major local corporations, money needed from state and city for upgrades etc...?

perhaps lurking pistons fan from detroit can chime in on their thoughts or maybe chrbal can shed some insight.

i know that auburn hills is north of detroit and it seems that auburn hills and some of the surrounded suburbs of detroit are doing fine. is that enough to keep everything running smoothly for the pistons over the next decade?

obviously the metro area of detroit still has a ton of people, plenty with money to support a team, more than charlotte, easily, so perhaps its a non-issue, especially since the arena is located well outside of the worst parts of detroit inner city. is the problem strictly a detroit city proper issue and not a concern since many suburbs are doing fine?

http://www.mlive.com/pistons/index.ssf/ ... _atte.html

pistons have a 22% decrease in attendance over the past 10 years. of course, they could have more to do with 1) having a team that went from perennial contenders to mediocre to bad 2) having such a large arena to begin with meant they had further room to fall than most arenas. but certainly some of the attendance problems can be attributed by what is happening in the city.

for those who have been living in a cave and dont know what i am talking about

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03 ... ll-friday/
gov declares financial emergency in detroit

more than 50% population decrease in the city between 1950 and 2010 from 1.8 mil down to 700k (that just city pop, not metro)
25% decline between 2000 and 2010

unemployment rate around 15%

33% at or below poverty level

47% didnt pay or were delinquent on 2011 property tax bills

high crime rate, both violent and non-violent. voted as americas most dangerous city 4 years in a row.

some videos on the vacant houses, factories and buildings in detroit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbLBkThLOnM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0exHajKA_bw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1IhXZD4Txs[/youtube]

none of this is meant to troll detroit. these are honest questions. i am fascinated by what has happened to detroit the past 20 years. there really is nothing else like it in the US to compare it to. we have never seen a city of that size decline so rapidly. and its a shame, because that city seems to have some of the most amazing Victorian architecture in the country as well as amazing history both as a city and as a sports town.

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