Coaching props and rants!

[BengalYankee]

(01-24-2022, 11:26 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: I hated them because they helped ruin the NBA's style of play for about a dozen years. Not as talented as your opponent? Clobber the shit out of them in an ugly 75-73 free throw fest. The league became popular but was mostly unwatchable outside of Jordan. The Pistons led to the clumsy and Barbaric Knicks, poor Patrick Ewing deserved better. I think the low point was when my beloved Sixers made the Finals in '01 when three of their starting five couldn't shoot.
C Dikembe Mutombo - poor shooter, almost entirely defense
PF Tyrone Hill - good rebounder, good defender, poor shooter
SF George Lynch - OK shooter, picked up off the street mid-season in '99 and becomes starter for 3 years because no one else could shoot
SG Allen Iverson - OK shooter . . . PHENOMENAL at creating shots. The best that I ever saw do it, even better than Jordan or Kobe
PG Eric Snow - poor shooter, OK point guard, good defender

I love that team, but it still blows my mind that they made the NBA Finals.

Anyway, rant over. 

Back on topic, by this time of year, I've usually given up on FA by the Bengals so I read a few Draft threads, gather a little info and take off from this place a couple weeks at a time while I completely ignore the playoffs. But nooooo. Zac still has me wanting to watch Game Pass and YouTube videos and visit NFL.com(which I hate). So THANKS A LOT, ZAC!! My calendar is completely off balance . . . guess I may have to get used to a new normal.

You are a Sixer fan and you are complaining about Clobbering??? You guys also had Rick Mahorn. Probably the Baddest Bad Boy of the Pistons.
Then you coupled him with Charles Barklay. 

I became a Die Hard Piston fan because I hated the Lakers. Initially, I rooted for Larry Bird and Indiana State over Michigan State in the NCAA finals.  Then your Sixer team lost to Magic/Lakers and I was angry. I did not have a die hard NBA team since I was upset the NBA sort of forced my ABA Nets to sell Dr. J to your lousy team. :-)   I just hated the Lakers and liked/loved any team playing them. Along came the Celtics, since I was not a Knicks fan[see forced Nets to pay a big fee to enter NY boundary] it was easy for me to accept the Celtics, especially when they battled the Lakers.

There lies the problem with your first statement. You are dead wrong. It was NOT the Pistons that started rough housing in the NBA but the Celtics. I watched almost every game I could watch of the Celtics and I loved them. But I hated the Lakers, like I feel about the Steelers and 49ers. My pain was watching the Celtics lose 2 out of 3 titles to the Lakers. 

Enter the Pistons, although they only played twice in the 80's for the title. I was more in love with them because the first series was a controversy series that went seven. The next year they swept the team I hated. I read books and video's about the Bad Boy Pistons and almost every time the Pistons mentioned they learned how to rough house by following the foot steps of the Celtics.