[Ruff Draft]

Miami and Chicago should hopefully be back next year with their remodeling. For years to come as well.

[irishfury]

Yeah I do agree I think Bonzi would be a great fit here.

[scapegoat]

i want to see CDR back in the D.

[STUCKEY!]

So I'm starting to believe Flip is a fine coach. It is the players that can't do jack****. Billups has lost his mojo He seems to have one good game then one horrid game one after another, Rip seems to be performing fine, Tayshaun after the 2 superb rounds of the playoffs has gone on to do nothing in this series, then theres rasheed who is his same inconsistent self and Mcydess aswell as stuckey have played fine so you can't put the blame on them.
If we lose in the ecf its time to rebuild move sheed,chauncey and mcdyess. Living on past glory is stupid.

[afobisme]

Originally Posted by ChrisWoj

When did we fire Larry Brown?

larry was fired when woodson (or whatever the name of the owner is) got fed up with him. at least that's what i remember.

[scapegoat]

i want to give him benefit of the doubt because of his injury, but billups has looked old for a minute now.

[ChrisWoj]

Originally Posted by afobisme

larry was fired when woodson (or whatever the name of the owner is) got fed up with him. at least that's what i remember.

The correct answer is Larry Brown was looking at other jobs and negotiated a buyout with the Pistons to be allowed to find work elsewhere (read: Cleveland or New York).

[Ruff Draft]

Flip has done well this year. I'm proud of him. If we don't win this series, we need changes. Desperate changes. I can't help but think Flip's system is the reason we are having such holes.

[croco]

Originally Posted by Ruff Draft

Flip has done well this year. I'm proud of him. If we don't win this series, we need changes. Desperate changes. I can't help but think Flip's system is the reason we are having such holes.

He (or his system) is responsible for not taking the last step, but you are proud of him despite of that ?

[Ruff Draft]

Well I like his system, but it does create some of our problems. Lack of rebounding is priotirty #1. There is no reason we should get owned like that. I'm more proud of his improvements, than his system in general.

[STUCKEY!]

http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archiv...ip_is_staying/ God Damnit.

[ChrisWoj]

The reason Flip is staying: Change for the sake of change is idiotic.

Look, if there was a coach out there that you could say is head and shoulders ahead of Flip Saunders, wanted to come to Detroit and was free to do so... go for it. But right now the only guys available are only arguably as solid as Saunders. We'd be merely moving sideways, I'll take some continuity over a sideways move and a new system to learn.

[Dissonance19]

link

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- The Detroit Pistons say Flip Saunders will not be back as coach next season.

"Decisions like this are difficult to make," team president Joe Dumars said on the team's Web site. "However, at this time, I feel it is necessary to make a change."

In his three seasons, the Pistons were 176-70 in the regular season and 30-21 in the postseason, but they lost in the conference finals each year.

Saunders had a year left on a four-year deal he signed in 2005. He replaced Larry Brown, who won a title in two trips to the NBA finals.

He has a career record of 587-296 in 13 years with the Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves