truebluepistons.blogspot.com - 6/3/2008
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The Pistons took the Game 6 conference finals exit ramp for a third straight season, but Joe Dumars plans on mapping a far different off-season road map this time around. It was a frank and blunt Dumars that met the media Tuesday afternoon, about five hours after thanking Flip Saunders for three years of service but telling him a fourth year wasn’t in the cards for him. You can see the video ...
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Joe Dumars: “Everybody’s in play”
Detroit Bad Boys —
Highlights from today’s presser from Keith Langlois’ blog:
* Dumars saying significant change was his desire and that “everybody’s in play. There are no sacred cows here.”
* Dumars saying the last 10 minutes of Game 6, when the Pistons squandered a 10-point lead and lost going away, was “a microcosm of the last three years.”
* Dumars saying that as he walked out of The Palace after that game, he felt a “sense of calm. I’ve seen enough.”
* Dumars saying “this team became way too content and did not show up ...
Joe Dumars: "Everybody's in play", Detroit Pistons will undergo 'significant changes'
Full-Court Press - A Detroit Pistons Blog —
Here is more from the Dumars press conference, with a link to the video of the presser. June 3, True Blue Pistons: It was a frank and blunt Dumars that met the media Tuesday afternoon, about five hours after thanking Flip Saunders for three years of service but telling him a fourth year wasn't in the cards for him. You can see ...
Joe Dumars Thinks How a GM Should
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Flip Saunders was fired as the Pistons' coach yesterday, four days after Detroit was eliminated from the playoffs by the Boston Celtics. And more changes could be on the way for a team bounced from three straight conference finals.
