Well, well, well. Ben refusing to enter a game, Dyess refusing to start a game and now Sheed not taking part in a timeout.

Are the mighty Pistons tuning Flip out? One has to ask this question as it seems one at a time the players are taking a stand against their coach.

I don`t know if this is the case, however, the timing of these issues are not good. I honestly believe Flip is afraid to get in his players faces and God forbid, discipline them for questioning him.

You are the coach Flip, maybe if you had the balls to stand up to them they might respect you more.

I don`t know which is worse, the team coaching themselves or Flip with his poor adjustments and passive coaching personality.

Either one = no title.

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"We are going to be really good offensively and definsively, we are going to be a team that can beat you 120-110, or beat you 80-70" Coach Michael Curry on the 2008-2009 Pistons.

I've been reading a lot of forums, it's always interesting to see who claims to have "inside info". One rumour is that there is a "racial issue" between coach and players. Probably total BS.

All I know is, this thing is broke. The players are unhappy and not functioning. The coach doesn't seem to really have a plan or know what he is doing. Not to sound arrogant, but it really sounds like the Pistons are beating themselves.

And it was all supposed to be Blue Skies after Big Bad Larry got fired...

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."

Anyone know where in the game the Sheed sitout timeout was? Also where he cussed into the camera? And where he cussed at Flip?
Third quarter was it?

Come on, the racial issue will always eb and flow.
What a short white guy bossing tall black guys, that's the way it's always been.
...Or maybe it's a guy with twitches bossing athletic guys without twitches. It could get to you after a while.
...Please don't try and sneak "LB is good" thought in here. He's more done than Darko.
...I really think Flip is pushing buttons now. Wins, mean he pushed the right ones. But the simple question is, "are we better than Wade and Shaq and Riles and whom ever"? Wade is bad but we should be able to defense him. Let's see what happens in game 4.
Dyess is making BBj look silly. God Dam Dyess quit smiling so much and get the job done. Is he caught up in some kind of BBen respect spat?

Didn't I write it was probably BS?

Yeah, but we still love you, twitches and all.

I'm not trying to sneak LB is good in. I just want to remind all the folks who said that ANYONE could coach this team, that they are all full of crap. Good coaches are hard to find.

Dyess has been lousy. He's shooting 41 %. He's a career 50% shooter. He's up against arguably the weakest part of the Heat's lineup. He's had 2 games this series with 20+ minutes, and only pulled down 4 boards in each.

He has no excuse for fatigue, he played less than 18 minutes per game in the last series, and he's still below his season average right now.

Sheed's lame. This is when the "6th starter" is supposed to kick in.

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."

I think it was in the first quarter actually. Sheed was already way frustrated by the hooking offensive foul on him when he first went to the hoop in the first quarter. But we also know he got pissed off at Flip for hacking shaq with 4:28 to go and the pistons down 8.

who knows? as someone said at some point during the cleveland series: there seems to be enough blame to go around. overall in this series: everyone's head has been in firm anal insertion mode at some point or another.

"Sheeds lame". What, not just his ankle? His brain?
I thought Dyess wanted this so bad? Why is he deferring to others?

It appears that something is going on between Flip and his players. Lack of discipline, having no faith in Flips rotation or his offense, i.e.

The bench players have already voiced thier displeasure with playing time i.e.

The Pistons are supposedly a team that doesn't need a lot of coaching. Is Flip imposing his will on the starters not giving them flexibility to change plays ala Larry Brown.

It's very apparent that something stinks on the bench and something defintely stinks inside the locker room.

Either way it's time for this veteran team to take over and play lwith the emotion and something to prove to the world attitude we have all come to know.

The team may need to sit Flip down at the end of the bench and play their game. They have been playing together longer than Flip has been coaching this team.

Well, Joe D. is the one, finally, responsible for everyone being here.

I'm wondering if it's not time for him to step in (or has he already?) and have a chat with everybody together. I'd think that Joe D. has the perspective from which to see what Flip AND the players could do better, and he's got the rings and the attitude to command their respect.

Or maybe it doesn't work that way. Just a thought.

Right there with ya, Prof. JD needs to read these guys the riot act. Before the next game.