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There are few jobs in the NBA that figure to be as difficult as coaching the Pistons. Flip Saunders posted a record of 176-70 in three years in Detroit, but he was fired on June 3 because he failed to lead the team to the Finals. Less than a week later, the Pistons hired Michael Curry, who retired as a player in 2004-05 and has no previous head coaching experience, to succeed Saunders. SN: ...
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Detroit Pistons coach Michael Curry will hold Piston players 'accountable'
Full-Court Press — Michael Curry gave an interview with SportingNews recently and had some things to say about the Pistons, expectations and his son Deon playing football for Michigan State. August 7, SportingNews: SN: One of those young guys is Rodney Stuckey. You have spoken about him as a sixth starter. He's a guy who you'll be counting on next year. In fact, there are a lot of young guys you'll be counting on -- Amir Johnson, Arron Afflalo, Jason Maxiell. MC: You know, if you asked somebody the average age of the Pistons, they'd probably say something in the 30s. But people don't realize, ...

Coach Curry Speaks
Need4Sheed.com — Michael Curry did a Q&A with The Sporting News. besides the usual questions I particularly took notice to his answer to this one. The Sporting News: When you look at what the Pistons have done over the last few years, there's been a tremendous amount of success. You've won a lot of games, you've gone far in the playoffs, conference finals. At some point, doesn't it just come down to being a good team that just gets some bad bounces here and there? Michael Curry: At the end of the season, if you don't win a ...

Michael Curry Will Attempt to ‘Flip’ the Script in Detroit
SLAM Online — “We’ll be holding people accountable when they need to be.”

Monday’s Layup Drill
Detroit Bad Boys — I’ve been busy so a few of these are old, but in case you missed them … The last few summers, the word everyone has liked to use when talking about the Pistons has been “complacency.” What’s the new buzz word? “Accountable.” Lindsey Hunter is using it, Chauncey Billups is using it, and, of course, Michael Curry is using it: [Michael Curry]: We can be two different teams at times. You look at Boston, they were first in the league defensively. We were second. The difference is, when you ...

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