Posted on January 14, 2009 by Chris Thompson
The rumors have been flying around Mo-town these past couple of days about who should start for the Piston: Richard Hamilton, or recently aquired Allen Iverson.
What did Michael Curry decide to do? He kept both in the starting lineup.
His starting lineup was as follows:
Rodney Stuckey PG
Allen Iverson SG
Richard Hamilton SF
Tayshaun Prince PF
Rasheed Wallace C
Here is [...]
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Posted on January 11, 2009 by Chris Thompson
What can you say about streaks like these? Well thank goodness that the Pistons don’t have a streak like this against every team in the NBA.
Saturday night, the minutes that every player had been putting up ,due to the loss of Rip and Sheed (Sheed played Saturday), finally showed through. They looked slow, and did [...]
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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 7, 2009 by Chris Thompson
The latest news to flash across my screen is that regarding the playing time of Rip Hamilton and Rasheed Wallace in the Pistons upcoming game against the Portland Trailblazers.
Richard Hamilton suffered his torn groin injury late last month against the Oklahoma City Thunder and will likely be sitting this one out. This Pistons seem to [...]
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Posted on January 6, 2009 by Chris Thompson
Over the past two years, Rodney Stuckeyhas made a name for himself as being one of the top PG in the NBA. So why not retire his Jersey?
Well, that is exactly what his former college is doing. Reports are in today that Rodney Stuckey’s former Jersey is to be retired, and he will go down [...]
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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
The Pistons have been doing fine as of late without two of their key starters, but when will they be coming back to contribute to the team?
Starting SF Rip Hamilton has missed the last 4 games that the Pistons have had and is still day to day. He has been diagnosed with a slight tear in [...]
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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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