20secondtimeout.blogspot.com - 6/3/2008
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In the wake of three straight losses in the Eastern Conference Finals, Detroit Pistons President Joe Dumars is determined to do whatever is necessary so that his team can return to the NBA Finals. Dumars began that process by firing Coach Flip Saunders and boldly declaring, "Make no mistake, everybody is in play right now. There are no sacred cows here."
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Ball Don't Lie —
... 20 Second Timeout, sans mustache: "Ben Wallace did not fit in with the "liberation offense" that Saunders wanted to run and that certainly played a factor in the Pistons electing to let him sign with the Bulls. Saunders believed that he could increase the team's offensive efficiency by so much that it would compensate for any slippage in defense in the wake of Wallace's departure (perhaps Saunders also thought that the Pistons would still be great defensively even without Wallace). Saunders may run the best baseline out of bounds plays in the ...
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larrybrownsports.com 6/4/2008 — The big news on Tuesday was the Pistons firing coach Flip Saunders . Unlike the shock when they fired Rick Carlisle, I would classify this move as a mild surprise. Think about it — the Pistons had peaked at the Conference Finals once again; ...
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detroitbadboys.com 6/6/2008 — In his press conference today, Joe Dumars said that the three guys on his list right now are Michael Curry, Terry Porter (assuming he doesn’t get the Phoenix job) and Avery Johnson. Stephen A. Smith swears that Curry will get the job, but when ...
Change (and Trades) Coming in Detroit —
SLAM Online
by Marcel Mutoni
Lost in the all-too expected firing of Flip Saunders yesterday, was Pistons GM Joe Dumars’s seething anger at the team he painstakingly put together. A team that, granted, did win a title, but has always left everyone with a feeling that they could’ve done so much more.
At the press conference announcing Saunders’s sudden unemployment, Dumars sounded ...
Dumars Just Put Everyone on the Block —
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Joe Dumars announced the dismissal of Flip Saunders with a statement released this morning, and he hinted at how drastic the rest of his offseason moves may be during a press conference in the afternoon : "Make no mistake, everybody is in play right now," said Joe Dumars, the Pistons' president of basketball operations. "There are no sacred cows here. You lose that sacred cow status when you ...
Dumars is Sickened and Disgusted - Everybody is Accountable —
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Dumars is Sickened and Disgusted and I love it...so are we Joe. Joe Dumars talks to WDFN's Stoney and Wojo after his press conference this afternoon. Joe Dumars just answered most of the question we all wanted to asked. It's nice to know that Joe has a plan and he means business. He isn't going to take this lackluster attitude and performance anymore. As he said earlier, everyone is on ...
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 ...
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