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Let me guess, Kurt Thomas told you so. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif
***** to hear about Avery, as I liked the guy, but he will do wonders for many teams. I am just glad he is out of dallas.
nope, just a very good hunch.

but it takes a coach to get his team up in the playoffs bc that bar is raised by every team..... Mavs year after year have yet to do this. And I do think Avery is a good coach, just lacks experience(shown by the Kidd trade) and will make a good coach for another team
you answered your own question...experience!

jw tho, why would he take a step down?
yea SA has the best chnce of any to win the title, but why do it as an assistant coach?
working under Pop is not step down, it is a resume enhancer, ask Mike Brown, Pj Carlisimo, Danny Ferry, and Steve Kerr among others about the benefits of learning under Popovich. working under Pop along with his already powerful defensive game would only strengthen his skills. Work under Pop for a few years and move on or become our coach after Timmy and Pop retire. He already has multiple homes here, family, and side business...why not?

 
Dwight Howard averaged 17 and 10 against Detroit, lower then his season averages and lower then most of the rest of the league. He also had a 47% field goal percentage against Detroit which is his lowest against any team outside of Portland. Rasheed is one of the most skilled big men in the game. If he ever got into the game and focused, he could've been a 20-10 player. He can work in the post against anyone. he has a lot of length and a high release that he shoot over the top of any defender. He is very good on the ball defender and can also shot block. He also is on the wrong side of 30. He is also a very good shooter for his size.
then we sir agree to disagree....I think Dwight will dominate(for the most part) the series(not saying Orlando will win,which I hope they do)

I think Sheed is going to be the wrong player to match up on Dwight bc he is just too strong

 
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Just because you have technical fouls doesn't make you a head case. Rasheed left Portland and they still had major problems. It was Randolph, Bonzi Wells, Stoudamire. Since coming to Detroit he has been good.
you watch basketball? they had a fall out against SA, Miami, Cleveland and are having issues with philly....

 
they always melt down LOL iirc rasheed melted down a couple times during those loses. Rasheed also isnt an all star type player imo. he takes games off and depending what mood he is in isnt very professional LOL. He is no Garnett, Duncan, Shaq, Barkley, Robinson type at all and if you want to get technical he more closely ressembles D Coleman except he won a championship.

 
LOL Rasheed took the team from a pretty good team to a championship team. You don't know what the hell you are talking about. Rasheed is an underachiever. There is no denying that. He just fades to the three point line a lot. When he posts up he is one of the best with his back to the basket. The key word is when.
Rasheed is an underachiever

Rasheed is an underachiever

Rasheed is an underachiever

your own words LOL

 
RaSheed is over hyped IMO. Guy is nothing but a trash talking ass. He does have one of the better jump shots for a big guy, but that is because it is so hard to defend with they style of how he shoots. I will give him that. Other than that, he is nothing special. He gets out powered a lot anymore. Back in his hayday he didn't so much, but he is not the same sheed as he was in Portland.

 
so he is an under acheiving awesome player who led the pistons to a championship? he led them in scoring in 1 game and rebounding in 2 (tied ben both times) with his best being a 26 point 13 rebound game. good numbers but far from dominating...espeacially since he had an old Karl Malone on him where Rasheed had the advantage of pulling him away from the basket....the advantage the pistons had was the guards and and active ben wallace

 
He's also older then his Portland days. He's 33 or 34 now. He is in the downside of his career. In his prime he could have been a top 5 PF. I don't know where you get over powered from //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif
33 with plenty of time left on his legs. He will play another 3-5 years depeding IMO.

Sorry a top 5 PF would have put up a lot bette numbers. He isn't your true PF. Guy likes to shoot the ball to much from the 3. He is good at that, but not something he should be focusing on, which he seems to do quite a bit. Guy has never once hit 20.0 ppg in a season, his Rbds are low being he is a tall guy. Yeah he can post up, but I have seen him get bullied around plenty of times. He isn't that strong to be honest. He is more a shooter than anything else, hence the reason he shoots so much. He is a decent player, nothing more, nothing less. Won't be a hall of famer, nor remembered much besides his trash mouth.

 
Let's not overstate Rasheed's significance: he is no perennial all-star by a long shot. However, he does provide secondary and tertiary scoring, gets on the defensive glass, is a relatively good low-post defender, and his range forces a lot of big men to take a step or two away from the paint.

He's not a Tim Duncan or Shaq type-player that you have to design an entire gameplan around in the playoffs, but he does add another dimension that a lot of teams can use. If he keeps his mouth shut and stays focused, he is a good starter (or at the very least, a great 6th man) on pretty much every team in the NBA.

 
Let's not overstate Rasheed's significance: he is no perennial all-star by a long shot. However, he does provide secondary and tertiary scoring, gets on the defensive glass, is a relatively good low-post defender, and his range forces a lot of big men to take a step or two away from the paint.
He's not a Tim Duncan or Shaq type-player that you have to design an entire gameplan around in the playoffs, but he does add another dimension that a lot of teams can use. If he keeps his mouth shut and stays focused, he is a good starter (or at the very least, a great 6th man) on pretty much every team in the NBA.
Perfect!

 
His problem is, he never wanted to be a Duncan. He is content being the 3rd or 4th option. He had the physical ability to be a Tim Duncan in Portland. The whole point of this conversation was that Rasheed was supposedly the reason the Pistons have lost every playoff series which is ridiculous.
show me where i said that? i said he was a head case which HE IS. WHEN THEY LOSE since 04 in the playoffs it is an upset and when you watch his reactions (especially against miami) he didnt act too professional. rather than digging down and try harder he gives up and starts throwing a fit:laugh:

 
What in the hell are you talking about? The only time that happened was last year in Cleveland and he had a legitimate case when he got tossed.
NO it is not the ONLY time he has done that. when things dont go his way he cries. totally takes himself out of the game.....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif happened against miami, happened in the 4th quarter in game 7 against SA happened xxxxx times in portland. im not talking about just ejections and tech fouls im talking about watching his reactions and his *****ing.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 
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