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Captain America said 06/04, 11:27 AM
I love how with all these current GM's they made all these fancy trades this and that, to get Shaq, Bibby, or Kidd and did not make it into the second round of the playoffs.

Joe Dumars compiled this team full of journeymen, convicts, unknowns and making them into a Championship winning team and a consistant Eastern Conference Finals team.

Flip Saunders its a great coach but lets face it 25 Conference Finals and no appearences in the NBA Finals? Well it just sounds like a curse to me look at T-Mac. So firing him correct thing to do.

Putting all his starters in the trading block, is the greatest thing a GM has done in the last few years! Who would have the guts to put their whole starting lineup which has a few all-stars and consistantly good players up on the chop block? He did and its to prove a point, nobody has a secure place on this team, as easily they were found its as easily they can be gone.

Sure you think Billups or Hamilton would do good on any other team, but I hate to say no. The system they run in Detroit its what keeps these players stats like this. Dont believe me? Look at Ben Wallace and what happend to his stats since he left Detroit.

More to Come!

Captain America said 06/05, 11:05 AM
OK I will give you one thing R.C. Buford might be the best GM in finding talent in the draft were nobody could see it. However the Pistons run a system were its almost Duke like. You need certain players at certain positions for it to work.

Hamilton is a great shooter no doubt about that, but its still never the fact that he is running thru screens to create most of his shots.

Rasheed was great in Portland but he was getting kicked out of every other game in Detroit he settled down more and created a better legacy on the league, thanks to the opportunity and no nonsense work ethic that Dumars instaled.

Billups you cannot say he is not a journeyman at all, he went thru 5 teams before he landed as a free agent in Detroit and flourished!

Big Ben was traded twice before he found his game in the city of Detroit.

Did anybody know about Prince, in the 2002 draft honestly.

Mcdyess was given an opportunity, if you dont remember he busted his leg bad and nobody wanted him and Dumars gave him a chance.

Not good Bench players? Did you not see the playoffs? Stuckey? Maxiell? Didnt they perform to a great degree? Flips just made terrible decisions down the stretch.

Captain America said 06/05, 11:00 PM
Yes very true, but did you notice, who Dumars drafted? Maxiell, Stuckey two players who are young but have proven very productive this year. Obviously they are younger in age, and have not seen so many minutes because the players who are infront of the lineup.

However Maxiell did very well in the playoffs and had amazing defensive moments, one of them giving a nasty block on KG while KG was in a fast break going for the dunk. Stuckey averaged 10 points during the playoffs that is very productive considering he is a rookie. Manu did not do much these playoffs cause injuries, and Tony played pretty decently.

Dumars team has consistently made the East Finals and been to two finals in the past 6 years, with a bunch of players who nobody wanted, and made them into a fully functional team.

Dumars has the guts to what other coaches wont do. Put their star players on the block. He is saying nobody is that important in this team. This if I was a player would spark my inner gut feeling to prove the man wrong, and I believe that is whats gonna happen.

Dumars is not the best drafting but he can truly make one heck of a team, Pistons has been the force in the East the past 6 years.