Posts Tagged ‘DETROIT PISTONS’
Sources: Some Pistons AWOL in protest
A number of Detroit Pistons were rumored to be leaving the team around the trade deadline, but not like this.
Tracy McGrady, Tayshaun Prince, Richard Hamilton and Chris Wilcox missed the team’s shootaround Friday morning before that night’s game against the Sixers in Philadelphia, and team sources told multiple media outlets that the players were staging a protest.
Sources told the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News that the shootaround boycott was directed at second-year coach John Kuester, who has clashed with players in the past.
Stein: Coaching change coming in Detroit?
It sends the wrong message, but the Pistons have no choice but to part ways with John Kuester after Friday’s incident, Marc Stein writes. Blog Read the rest of this entry »
The worst performance of the Lakers this season
The worst performance of the Lakers this season and the best of the Minnesota Timber wolves this year, were yet another victory for the Lakers during his historic start to the season.
Kobe Bryant scored 33 points, the Spanish Pau Gasol added 18 points and 10 rebounds as the Lakers managed a 8-0 start to the season for the third time in franchise history after a victory on Tuesday 99 – 94 against the Minnesota Timber wolves.
Yet the two-time champions never shook off the Timber wolves, who were placed at two points only local team in the final minutes.
Minnesota moved closer to its sixth straight loss and Ron Artest was grateful for the benefit of the Lakers.
“We won, but did not play well, and that worries me a bit,” Artest said. “If we lose and play well, is another story. I guess it feels better to win, even if it’s something. We are still a good team, even on a night like this.”
Kevin Love scored 23 points and 24 rebounds recovered, resulting in a very frustrating night for Artest, who had difficulty keeping the star of the Timberwolves two points below to score another record in his career. Minnesota suffered its twelfth consecutive failures against the Lakers, but shone in his effort and cohesion. Read the rest of this entry »
NBA CENTRAL DIVISION
A division which, save the illusions created by the Chicago Bulls, you could say that any time that the past was better.
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS
Like any victim of infidelity leads Cleveland Cavaliers abandonment was the last to know and no time to react after the break. Sunken, miserable, cuckolded and beaten. At least managed to catch a coach like Byron Scott, able to take performance and results in groups that accept his style, his ideas. We will see the mood of veterans like Maurice Williams, Anthony Parker and Antawn Jamison, players without eating or drinking have been lost forever the dream of the ring, lived and now gone. It will be interesting to attend to developments in Sessions with a coach like Scott and many minutes of exposure at the same time to release and drop the air of a hawk as Hickson. Scott nobody asked the miracle of the playoffs but he has left on the shoulders of bulls very complicated.
DETROIT PISTONS
Looks like a boring computer to stop time through. The hangover seems profound after six consecutive conference final. The Pistons are living in a transition not quite know what to paint Hamilton and Prince, players who should have been transferred long ago. The franchise has already decided seizing substitutes like Ben Gordon and Austin Daye recommended as it would be without these two survivors of the 2004 title to change to improve their roster of pivots, especially after the injury for the entire year of Swedish Jerebko . Their inside game should give benefits to most of its rivals unless rookie Greg Monroe received the spotlight from November to respond to the maximum in every match, something that would be novel for a player with a reputation for erratic during his time in Georgetown University. They should not expect anything from McGrady, if ultimately help particularly emotionally sum to a team that cost to be competitive day in and day out. Read the rest of this entry »