Behind Phoenix, Utah, Portland, Indiana, Milwaukee and Oklahoma City? Hollinger has always suffered from paralysis by overanalysis, but this is the most inane thing I've ever seen him come up with.
Behind Phoenix, Utah, Portland, Indiana, Milwaukee and Oklahoma City? Hollinger has always suffered from paralysis by overanalysis, but this is the most inane thing I've ever seen him come up with.
"When you are running an organization, you have to have the vision and the foresight to be able to change and put the team through transition," Dumars said. "But you also have to be patient enough to sit back and allow it to play out.
Posts: 4909 | Location: The Tay | Registered: December 17, 2003
Originally posted by Respect My Conglomerate: Darko is a much, much, much better player than people are willing to give him credit for. I think, right now, he might be better or as good as Wilcox.
Posts: 2784 | Location: DET | NYC | Registered: March 28, 2007
Is it April? Cuz thats like an April's fool joke. Oklahoma Thunder better than the Pistons? WTF?????
Bad Boys lay the smack down on showtime Lakers, the going to work era forced the NBA to change the rules, went to a lot of ECF and won tons of games and thats not even good enough to beat OKC? LOL
Posts: 2462 | Location: Puerto Rico | Registered: January 26, 2005
I'll give him Lakers, Celtics, Spurs and Bulls but what in the blue hell is this? The Suns, 76ers, Jazz, Blazers, Rockets, Pacers, Rockets, Bucks and the freakin Thunder ahead of the Pistons.
We all know the Pistons history so there's no need to repeat it, how can "stats" rank the Pistons 13th if anything they should behind the Bulls. The Thunder retain none of the Seattle Supersonics history so how can he justify them at 12?
The only team ahead of the Pistons that won multiple titles were the Rockets and people hate on those titles.
I read this on another pistons board, and some guy did the calculations himself based on Hollinger's point system, and apparently, the Pistons were magically deducted almost 1000 points and should be ranked top five.
Personally, based on championships (which Hollinger just doesn't consider enough), I think it should go: Boston, LA, San Antonio, Chicago, and Detroit.
Originally posted by swift_carlos: Is it April? Cuz thats like an April's fool joke. Oklahoma Thunder better than the Pistons? WTF?????
Bad Boys lay the smack down on showtime Lakers, the going to work era forced the NBA to change the rules, went to a lot of ECF and won tons of games and thats not even good enough to beat OKC? LOL
I'd be willing to bet he penalized the Pistons a bunch of points because of these reasons exactly. The "playing style" point subtraction was probably used against both the bad boys and the recent Pistons. It's a bunch of crap anyways.
Posts: 2306 | Location: Warren | Registered: June 18, 2004
Pistons were penalized for pretty much sucking from 1959 until 1980, despite some talented players like Bing and Lainer.
Only after Davidson took over the team did the Pistons become a great franchise... and the teal era didn't help.
Celtics, despite perception, actually were half decent for this decade. It was the 90's that they completely fell off the map with 2 tragedies and a change of venue.
Posts: 4949 | Location: Detroit proper | Registered: December 14, 2002
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