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mikhail1973 · #**121** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by lpgrl26

I checked and didn't see it. I found it on a b-ball forum and it didn't have a link, but i'm really curious as to where it came from because that's alot of stuff i've never heard before . . .

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Thanks Mikhail. Figures it's Steven A Smith.

Where all of this info is coming from, I wonder? Because if all of that that is true, Joe is way late with Flip. Unless he wanted to give Curry a year of the apprenticeship, I dunno.

CloudWalker · #**122** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by mikhail1973

That's Stephen Smith: ESPN - Dumars deserves props for thinking outside the box - NBA

Wow...my normal routine is to avoid him like the plague since his "you deserve it!" endorsement. (during the "brawl")

lpgrl26 · #**123** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by mikhail1973

Where all of this info is coming from, I wonder? Because if all of that that is true, Joe is way late with Flip. Unless he wanted to give Curry a year of the apprenticeship, I dunno.

It's strange that none of it has been reported before. I mean a player pulling aside a reporter begging for an old coach seems like something that is news worthy.

CloudWalker · #**124** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 03:53 AM

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Originally Posted by lpgrl26

It's strange that none of it has been reported before. I mean a player pulling aside a reporter begging for an old coach seems like something that is news worthy.

"scared of Joe" is the only theory I can find much sense in when it comes down to that.

**max** · #**125** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 04:52 AM

What a mess. If that article is true then no wonder the team has been falling apart when the chips are down. I hope Dumars makes some moves because I don't want to follow a team like that. Bunch of cry babies.

round · #**126** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 10:15 AM

If Cola had lasted more then 2 years...... IF Brown had last longer then 2 years.... Flip probably would have been gone after last year, as it was there is an undertone in reporting this story that detroit "flips" coaches to often, now after Joe's interview its being protrayed abit better.

What really ticks me off about the reporting is how everybody is saying its all detroits fault that larry isn't here..... did the rest of the country not watch him and his antics of 2005? He may have been fired, but he did everything in his power to force the firing.... winning in 2004 was maybe the worst thing for both the players and the coach.

Dumars4Ever · #**127** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 10:54 AM

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By sure thing, I guess I mean a guy who is capable of doing the basic things an NBA coach is asked to do. Design plays, make decisions, deal with personel, etc. I'm not saying "pick the guy who will for sure bring you a ship."

For those reasons, I'd go with Avery Johnson, Terry Porter, Bill Laimbeer, Jeff Fricken Van Gundy, or any other guy with coaching experience over Michael Curry. There is a reason guys pay their dues.

Although in the case of Avery, he hadn't paid any more dues when he took over Dallas than Curry has with the Pistons.

Delfino Delivers · #**128** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by round

i like the comment joe made about exp though... what good is exp if the coach has 15 years of a .400 record. Not sure who's out there that has exp, and its good exp. And were not talking regular season, we had that... flip track record in the regular season is great. It is all about winning in the playoffs, and who is out there that has exp at doing that?

But again... i'm not sold on currey per say... but there is not one name that jumps to mind that i am sold on... well short of daley, and i don't see that happening GRIN

Laimbeer is the answer. He has experience; is a Champion as a coach; just not in the NBA.

CloudWalker · #**129** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 11:34 AM

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Laimbeer is the answer. He has experience; is a Champion as a coach; just not in the NBA.

Try not to "insult" Joe D with insinuations such as those.

TaShawn · #**130** (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Dumars4Ever

Although in the case of Avery, he hadn't paid any more dues when he took over Dallas than Curry has with the Pistons.

Right, they gambled on him and now we don't have to.