I'm not sure what Joe's worst mistake was, drafting Darko and not playing him or hiring Flip and keeping him. We have a team of supposed allstars and Flip has still not figured out when or how to play them or his bench.

It just irks me that Phil Jackson can field a tream with such allstar scrubs as Mo Evans, Luke Walton, Andrew Bynum, Sasha something, Smush Parker, Brian Cook & Rony Turiaf and already have a record of 23-11.

Yeah sixteen of the W's were at home, but they have had key players like Kwame and Odom down and still have managed to pull out last second W's. Their defense is not the greatest, but despite playing second string players, they still get the job done offensively as they compliment Kobe, who trusts them more than he did two years ago.

This just means one thing that we all know. Phil can coach a bunch scrubs to a winning record and Flip has problems coaching real stars. Those Piston players coached their way to the 64 W's last year. Flip just left them in there too long and they burned out.

Wasn't Phil Jackson still available before we got hoodwinked into Flip??

I watched the Dallas/LA game last night and the Lakers play hard. Not only that, Phil throws any and everybody at the opposition, regardless of who that opponent is.

Remember in the 2004 Finals, Kobe`s last second shot won the only game for the Lakers, but if it wasn`t for a spark off the bench from Luke Walton, a rookie at the time it would have been a Detroit sweep.

I know Malone and Payton were injured, my point is would Flip have that confidence in a rookie? I doubt it, he would play CB, Tay or someone until they collapsed!

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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 don't like him, but Phil Jackson would be a perfect coach for this team.

I hated the guy too, but after going from LB to Flip, I have too much respect and awe for the great coaches to hate them.

Dre, when the Pistons hired LB, Jackson had some derogatory remarks about Detroit... he didn't think Detroit was a good move for Larry (same year we kicked his ass :^)... safe to say Jackson would not have considered coming here.

The 2004 Pistons players responded to Phils remarks. I recall there was some bad blood, but was it due to the Bad boy rep of 1991 when they walked off the court disrespecting Phils future champions and Phil still was thinking about that? Was it the rep that organization had with dumping players and coaches or was it just the Detroit envirionment?

I still remember the game in the Milwaukee series. There was three or four days until the next game. We were up by 16 for most of the game and Flip played Tayshuan for the first 21 minutes of the second half (after playing most of the first half without rest). I still think it was the game when he totally lost the team.