Posted on January 12, 2009 by Chris Thompson
Their Western Conference Road Trip is now over and what do the Pistons have to look forward to, another long string of games. Five games in seven days to be exact.
For a Pistons team that has been banged up over the past couple of weeks, this could be a crazy, unpredictable week.
First off, Rip Hamilton [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2009 by Chris Thompson
Chauncey Billups, the current shining star in Denver, brought the Pistons to their knees in the first half of the Pistons Nuggets game on Friday night as he put on a scoring clinic as he scored 20 points. The Nuggets would enter half time with a 48-38 lead over the Pistons.
He took Rodney Stuckey to school, [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2009 by Chris Thompson
I recently saw this question posted on the Mlive.com Pistons forum:
So, we have been fine losing Sheed and Rip due to injuries. Who is one player we cant afford to go down?
With the Pistons now down two key players in Rasheed Wallace and Rip Hamilton, and Antonio McDyess is banged up with various injuries, who [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2009 by Chris Thompson
As many of us Piston fans have heard, Antonio McDyess has quite the knack for getting injuries these days. That is not to say that he doesn’t play though. He is quite the Warrior and guts it out through every game. Vince Ellis of the Detroit Free Press said that seeing McDyess after the game [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2009 by Chris Thompson
This was a very hard choice in terms of who should be the Fantasy Player to have from the Pistons last night. But, I had to go with two, because both played out of this world last night. So congratulations to both Rodney Stuckey and Tayshaun Prince for winning top honors today.
A controversial call was [...]
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Posted on January 4, 2009 by Chris Thompson
Beginning Sunday afternoon, the Pistons will be entering into their first game of their six day, four game Western conference road trip. None of the games will be a walk in the park for the Pistons as they will face 3 teams ranked ahead of them in the weekly power rankings (as according to Marc [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2009 by Chris Thompson
Put one more win in that left hand column for the Pistons, they are now 20-11. After defeating the struggling Sacramento Kings 98-92 the Pistons are now 6 ½ games behind Cleveland in the Central Division.
They are now riding on a 6 game winning streak, the longest this year for the Pistons, and it is [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2009 by Chris Thompson
The Pistons are entering this game riding on a 5 game win streak, while the Kings are, well they sure aren’t looking like Kings of the NBA that’s for sure.
Some injury updates before the game:
Rip Hamilton is still hurt with the groin injury, don’t expect to see him anytime soon.
Rasheed Wallace is expected to play [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2009 by Chris Thompson
Over the past couple of weeks the injuries that the Pistons players had been trying to avoid, and doing a good job of avoiding, have started to flow in.
Anotonio McDyess is one of the three Pistons players to now be suffering from an injury. He was elbowed in their win over the Orlando Magic and [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2009 by Chris Thompson
In their matinee home game on New Years Eve, the Pistons toppled the New Jersey Nets by the final score of 83-75. The main storyline of the night, no it wasn’t any highlight real dunks, or amazing last second bucket, but it was Vince Carter getting ejected early in the second quarter.
Vince was given his [...]
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