12/15/23 @7PM EST Detroit Pistons @ Philadelphia Sixers

[Tigeraholic1]

Edited December 14, 2023 by Tigeraholic1

[buddha]

i wonder if the sixers will bother trying?

[casimir]

20 hours ago, buddha said:

i wonder if the sixers will bother trying?

The main rotation?  Doubtful.

The end of the bench?  Oh heck, they've been looking forward to breaking game time sweat this week.

[buddha]

teams will probably try hard for a little bit.  nobody wants to be the team that actually loses to detroit and breaks the streak.

[casimir]

5 minutes ago, buddha said:

teams will probably try hard for a little bit.  nobody wants to be the team that actually loses to detroit and breaks the streak.

Sure, nobody wants to be that team.  But the Pistons are playing against themselves as well as the opponent right now, and this game is on the road.  There's always a chance.  But besides youthful inconsistency, I don't see anything from Wednesday to build off of to think that tonight could be the end of the streak.

[Deleterious]

One is the loneliest number that you will ever do.

 

[Deleterious]

23 hours ago, buddha said:

i wonder if the sixers will bother trying?

At least for 2 1/2 quarters.  

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

Why would you play anything but zone against the Pistons?  

[buddha]

this is hilarious.

[buddha]

THEY'RE NOT EVEN TRYING TO TANK!

[buddha]

the chargers just got embarassed on national tv and they fired the coach and gm the next day.

the pistons are getting embarassed EVERY NIGHT and nothing happens.

the nba stepped in and stopped the sixers "process," will they do the same thing here?  the nba is a series of franchises under the guise of a centralized league that runs things.  when will the league decide that this embarassment to its product is enough and remove the leadership of its worst run franchise?

[gehringer_2]

2 minutes ago, buddha said:

the nba stepped in and stopped the sixers "process," will they do the same thing here?  the nba is a series of franchises under the guise of a centralized league that runs things.  when will the league decide that this embarassment to its product is enough and remove the leadership of its worst run franchise?

I wonder if in an odd way, the fact that both the Spurs and the Pistons are a such a mess simultaneously inhibits the league from doing anything about ether team for lack wanting to end up in the middle of a debate about 'why not the other one'  or having to deal with both of them at once.

[Motown Bombers]

Most of these games aren't even close. 

[Deleterious]

 

[Motown Bombers]

Doesn't the NBA have a mercy rule?

[Deleterious]

Hard to remember when 3 teams were as bad as Detroit, SA, and WAS.

[KL2]

Monty trying to get Staley'ed

[Deleterious]

You have to hope Williams is doing his best Gene Hackman impersonation.  At the start of Hoosiers when his friend asks him what he is doing.  Hackman says he has to break down the boys and build them back up again the right way.  Please be doing that.  Please.  

[buddha]

10 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Hard to remember when 3 teams were as bad as Detroit, SA, and WAS.

both san antonio and washington are winning tonight.

san antonio is in year 1 1/2 of their rebuild.  washington in year 1.  pistons are in year 4.  FOUR!

[buddha]

cade at -32 with more turnovers than field goals.

[Motown Bombers]

I think Brandon Staley could do as good of a job as Monty. 

[Deleterious]

30 points combined from Cade, Ivey, Thompson, and Hayes.  

[buddha]

longest losing streak in franchise history.

hey, remember when we traded up into the first round to draft a tiny shooting guard?  what a great move that was!  about as good as using our cap space to trade two second round picks for the corpse of joe harris!

[buddha]

wizards beat the pacers.

bilal coulibaly is ausar thompson lite on defense but he can actually shoot.