Friday Mini-Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... . It's a great thing for Team USA -- To be the dream of good young players. He also tells Patrick Hayes of MLive.com that the Bad Boys are back: "I'll tell you one thing, our defense and defensive standpoint, things are going to be a lot different. We're gonna be picking up full court, trying to get back to our old ways of playing Bad Boys defense. That's something to look forward to this coming year." ...
Friday’s Layup Drill
Detroit Bad Boys —
... (via FanHouse):
Laimbeer: For a competitor like [Bird] and myself or Isiah or Magic Johnson - having a job, you can get a job anywhere. So why are you in the business? You’re in the business to compete for the championship and if you’re not able to compete for the championship, you can’t get the job done, what are you doing there?
Patrick Hayes of the Flint Journal had a chance to talk with Arron Afflalo, Rodney Stuckey and Michael Curry. Afflalo has this year’s talking points down: ...
Stuckey: Detroit Is Going Bad Boy Again
SLAM Online —
... “We’re gonna be picking up full court, trying to get back to our old ways of playing Bad Boys defense. That’s something to look forward to this coming year.” ...
Around The Way
Need4Sheed.com —
Patrick Hayes did some great interviews with Rodney Stuckey, Arron Afflalo and Coach Curry. What I found promising was Curry's words on D. "I want to be a team, of course, that's really good defensively. We've been good defensively but I want to be good defensively consistently. Let's understand that our guys have been really good over the last six or seven years, but what we've had problems (with) at times is maintaining that consistency and playing at an extremely high level. What we have to do is make sure we do all the little things so we ...
Stuckey: Back to Bad Boys defense
PistonsNationBlog.com —
... Hot Rod recently gave a short interview while in Flint, MI with the Pistons Tip-Off Tour in which he proclaimed the Pistons will be back to playing “Bad Boys” Defense: “I’ll tell you one thing, our defense and defensive standpoint, things are going to be a lot different. We’re gonna be picking up full court, trying to get back to our old ways of playing Bad Boys defense. That’s something to look forward to this coming year.” ...
