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Category Archives: Analysis

2007/2008 Season Preview – Charlotte Bobcats

Courtesy of mikhail1973 @ www.pistonsforum.com Season 2006/2007 Record 33-49 The team didn’t have a single player who would’ve played in at least 80 games. Sean May can’t get any luck with injuries at all. But injuries are a part of NBA long grueling season, and Charlotte will have to deal with them. From the individual [...]

2007/2008 Season Preview – Miami Heat

Courtesy of mikhail1973 @ www.pistonsforum.com Season 2006/2007 Record 44-36 2006/2007 was a difficult one for Heat. The year began and ended with a loss to the Bulls team. And if the season opening loss to Chicago was categorized as somewhat of a sensation, the final four losses, a sweep in the first round of the [...]

2007/2008 Season Preview – Atlanta Hawks

Courtesy of mikhail1973 @ www.pistonsforum.com Season 2006/2007 Record 30-52 The team fought injuries and a weak offensive game throughout the season. As a result the team finished 26th in assists, 28th in field goal percentage, dead last in 3-point shooting percentage. There were a couple of disappointing performances by the players. Speedy Claxton had the [...]

Paying for Production: 2007 Season

At the end of the 2005-2006 season three Pistons were in my list of the league’s twenty most underpaid players. (Salary relative to statistical performance, see the Rating Players section below for details of the methodology used.) Ben Wallace was the fourth most underpaid player, Tayshaun Prince the ninth, and Chauncey Billups the thirteenth most [...]

Iron Men or Tin Men

Looking at This Season – Tin Men From about the two thirds mark of the regular season, every nationally televised Pistons game began with a discussion of bench development. The Pistons were playing the bench more, were sacrificing regular season wins for player development that would help them in the post season. After hearing it [...]

2006/7 End of Season Contracts Review

With the Pistons season coming to an abrupt end, fans are in the streets, shouting for change. Fire the coach. Release/trade players. Here is a quick and dirty primer on the Pistons current roster, contracts and salaries and what this means going forward to next season. So before you propose trading Jason Maxiell and Flip [...]

[video] 2007 Detroit Pistons – Eastern Conference Finals Preview

Pistons/Cavs Preview – Billups vs. Hughes

Pistons/Cavs Preview – Hamilton vs. Pavlovic

Pistons/Cavs Preview – Prince vs. James

Pistons/Cavs Preview – Wallace vs. Gooden

Pistons/Cavs Preview – Webber vs. Ilgauskas