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BDL's 2008-09 NBA Season Preview: Detroit Pistons
BDL's 2008-09 NBA Season Preview: Detroit Pistons
As the NBA preseason marches on, Ball Don't Lie looks at all 30 teams, outlining off-season transactions, projecting win totals, spinning tracks, and much, much more. It's a fun, hot mess. Today, the Detroit Pistons . Last Season: 59-23; lost in the Eastern Conference Finals to Celtics Key ...
Detroit Pistons 2008-09 Preview
Detroit Pistons 2008-09 Preview
detroitbadboys.com — Here’s my contribution to the series of Blogger Previews organized by Jeff Clark from Celticsblog . You... may have already seen contributions from Need4Sheed and Empty the Bench earlier this week — I’m a few days late with this.  ... (more) Detroit Pistons 2008-09 Preview
Detroit Pistons 2008-2009 Season Preview | Need4Sheed.com
need4sheed.com — The Detroit Pistons Last Years Record: 59-23 Key Losses: Jarvis Hayes (Free Agent - Nets), Juan Dixon... (Free Agent - Wizards), Theo Ratliff (Free Agent - 76ers), Lindsey Hunter (Free Agent - Unsigned) Key Additions: Rookie Head Coach Michael Curry, ... (more) Detroit Pistons 2008-2009 Season Preview | Need4Sheed.com
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  • jwjeff jwjeff
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    I love the mental image of Sheed trying to assemble IKEA furniture.
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Thursday Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — ... Kelly Dwyer of Yahoo on Michael Curry coaching the Pistons: "Teams have a tendency to fall apart when they're working under older brother-ish types as opposed to father figures, and Curry definitely comes off as the seemingly cool big brother who is going to buy them a case of beer on the slide and allow for a bunch of three-pointers in early transition. How well that works in the postseason remains to be seen, but I don't think it will matter much in the regular season. My win prediction (Detroit won 59 games last season) is based more on an ...

Press clippings (late night edition)
PistonsNationBlog.com — Since I don’t have a season preview to speak of the first two bullets contain four of the best the net has to offer. NBA TV’s VIDEO PREVIEW of the Pistons up coming season with Joe D and host Andre Aldridge NBA.com’s Pistons Preview ,  BDL’s Pistons Preview,  DBB’s Pistons Preview (more…)

Blogger Previews: Central Division
Detroit Bad Boys — ... In addition to the fine previews linked above, be sure to check out J.E. Skeets and Kelly Dwyer’s Pistons preview at Ball Don’t Lie. (Actually, if you’re a fan of the league in addition to the team, you probably should be reading ...

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