***Offical 08/09 NBA thread!***

[rtillaree 10+ year member]

you are a fooonay guy, you take 1 stat and make excuses for your whole team:laugh: They are at best the 3rd best team in the east and it is a MAJOR drop off after the first 2.

at best 5th...ATL is better than Detroit right now...record wise...Detroit is coming together here as of late and will probably eclipse ATL soon enough, but still, rankings wise and SOS ATL is currently better...

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

at best 5th...ATL is better than Detroit right now...record wise...Detroit is coming together here as of late, but still...

Detroit is only 1 loss behind Atlanta. Detroit has proven they can hang with the best except Boston.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

Throw stats up all you like as it must make your e-penis feel bigger...simple fact is regular season records ,as you should know by now being a Piston fan, do not mean jack squat in the playoffs where it is a race to for wins to win a series.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

Throw stats up all you like as it must make your e-penis feel bigger...simple fact is regular season records ,as you should know by now being a Piston fan, do not mean jack squat in the playoffs where it is a race to for wins to win a series.

That is what I said awhile ago //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

Detroit has only played 26 games. Incorporating a player like Iverson into your lineup doesn't happen overnight. On the surface it looks like Denver won, but there is so much more to this trade then you people just don't seem fit to comprehend for whatever reasons.
-Stuckey is the future. Billups blocked his growth. The Pistons are getting old and need to develop young talent. Stuckey can give them everything Billups did and then some

-Salary cap. Pistons will be players in the 2010 draft. This freed up a huge amount of cap space.

-The Pistons still haven't figured out how to work Iverson into the offense. It will take time, but this team could be built for the playoffs. Remember Detroit only had 54 wins each time they made the finals. In 2006 they won 64 and lost in the ECF. Win/loss record isn't everything.

-furthermore, Detroit has beaten Cleveland, Los Angeles, and San Antonio in convincing fashion. Outside of Boston, they have proven they can hang with the best.

-Billups would not make a difference. This team would still be underdogs to Boston, Cleveland and even Orlando. They proved the last 2 years that the status quo was going to beat Cleveland or Boston.

Given what I know now, I'd still pull off the trade in a heartbeat.

Just an //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif Detroit was 15-11 after 26 games in 2004

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After that bigfagtheory just added his usual garbage and chenface talked about post count //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

That is what I said awhile ago //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

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[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

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Perhaps you missed my post above? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[rtillaree 10+ year member]

Detroit is only 1 loss behind Atlanta. Detroit has proven they can hang with the best except Boston.

Ok, but they're still the 5th best team in the East...unless you want to use the imaginary best line, and just say hey they are just a really great team no matter what their record suggests...wins against good teams are great, but losses to teams such as Minnesota, New Jersey, Washington & Philly are hard to overcome in the power rankings...

ATL is only one game ahead of Detroit, but ATL has a much easier schedule over the next month than Detroit does...have to see the standings come February...

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

Ok, but they're still the 5th best team in the East...unless you want to use the imaginary best line, and just say hey they are just a really great team no matter what their record suggests...wins against good teams are great, but losses to teams such as Minnesota, New Jersey, Washington & Philly are hard to overcome in the power rankings...
ATL is only one game ahead of Detroit, but ATL has a much easier schedule over the next month than Detroit does...have to see the standings come February...

LOL power rankings //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif If they play Minnesota, New Jersey, Washington, or Philadelphia then I'll be concerned. They played NJ in Iverson's first game, and didn't have McDyess against Minnesota and Philadelphia. They have also been playing much better with Stuckey in the starting lineup. Pistons are 10-3 with Stuckey in the starting lineup.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

detroit homer....you will keep spewing piston garbage until they are out and look for a scape goat just like the last 4 years LOL

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

detroit homer....you will keep spewing piston garbage until they are out and look for a scape goat just like the last 4 years LOL

And all you will do is use your terrible grammar and punctuation and troll all the sports threads and attack everybody's team when you never make it clear what teams you root for. You could also add something of value but that is too much to ask.

(Yes I started a sentence with a conjunction)

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

And all you will do is use your terrible grammar and punctuation and troll all the sports threads and attack everybody's team when you never make it clear what teams you root for. You could also add something of value but that is too much to ask.
(Yes I started a sentence with a conjunction)

and you have the common sense of that ice cube in your avatar....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

and you have the common sense of that ice cube in your avatar....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

I don't even know what my avatar is, but as expected, you go on something totally unrelated to the topic. Now it goes from post count to avatars. Usually what happens when someone can't form substantial replies, is to try and change the subject. I understand this is too much for you to handle.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

You lacking common sense equals your constant banter about how great Detroit sports are. Pretty simple concept but as usual if the subject goes to where you do not like it you whine.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

You lacking common sense equals your constant banter about how great Detroit sports are. Pretty simple concept but as usual if the subject goes to where you do not like it you whine.

This has nothing to do with the NBA. So far in this thread we have discussed my post count, avatar, and now you are attacking me by saying I lack common sense? In an NBA thread, you'd think you would use basketball to combat what I say but that is apparently out of the realm of your mental capacity.