Thread: Flip Saunders keeps things fresh
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Old 10-30-2006, 05:18 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Flip Saunders keeps things fresh
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AUBURN HILLS -- It was an odd thing to be asking about a coach in the second year of a four-year contract, especially one who had won a franchise-high 64 games last season. Still, given the way things ended, it seemed like a legitimate question to pose to Pistons president Joe Dumars.

Is Flip Saunders on trial this season?

"Not at all," Dumars said.

Dumars' support of Saunders, the man he hired to replace Larry Brown after the Pistons had won the championship in 2004 and made it back to the Finals in 2005, never waned last season. When Ben Wallace got into a snit with Saunders and refused to enter a game in Orlando last April, Dumars backed the coach. When Wallace and other players (Antonio McDyess, Tayshaun Prince) publicly complained during the playoffs, Dumars had Saunders' back, again.

And during the summer, when he met individually with each player, Dumars made it clear that Saunders was the coach and that wasn't going to change.
Detroit News

...and Joe D. has his back
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