Player in your team's history who people tend to forget

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Andrew Toney- He was a greatguard along side Mo Cheeks.Bobby Jones- Great defender back in the late 70's and early 80'sAaron McKie- Good scorer for us during the 2001 finals run. 6th man of the year.

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PrimeTime @ Jul 13 2007, 04:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It's really argueably that they could beat that cavs team. That cavs team not only had great perimeter defense but they had so many weapons that I doubt the pistons could slow them down. On the otherhand I'm pretty sure Kareem would have killed them since their frontcourt was relatively soft. but Mark Price and larry nance would matchup well defensively with dumars-thomas and could definately slow down their main two guys and I dont expect laimber and rodman to be able to cut it offensively to matchup to the points Harper,Nance,and Daughterty brought that year. its really a tough call either way. I could see the pistons and lakers beating them, but its very possible that cavs team could have stopped them. If it werent for that clutch shot from MJ they would have had us beat also.</div>I think the Pistons could have slowed them down. Isaih Thomas and Joe Dumars both played tough defense on the perimeter, infact Jordan went on the record to say that Dumars played tougher defense on him than just about anyone else Jordan faced in his career. They both played pretty physical for little guys, and did a good job of playing that way at all times. They could have definately slowed down that Cavaliers back court. Rodman and Laimbeer were tough and physical, and would have been able to keep Brad Daugherty and Larry Nance from being able to score on the inside to much. So defense would not have been a problem at all, as well as Laimbeers tough and physical nature would have caused problems for their perimeter players when they drove in.As for being able to score, Laimbeer scored enough to atleast give them a credible threat down low. He was a consistent 13 point per game scorer, and if you didn't pay attention to him, with Isaih Thomas's passing, he could easily go for alot more. So he helped to provide some scoring, just enough to stretch the floor. With Isaih Thomas, Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson, and Mark Aguirre who was also a solid defensive player from the bench, they had more than enough scoring to keep things up. Their scoring was enough to match their tough and stingy team defense, that caused everyone else in the NBA problems, and would have gotten them over the Cavaliers in a seven game series.

 

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I think alot of people forget some of the years Jerry Stackhouse had as a Piston. His best was 29 ppg I believe. Even though alot of people try to forget the "teal era" of the Pistons, I think you have to include Stack in the discussion of the greatest Pistons ever, based on numbers atleast. I'm still not a fan of the Stackhouse for Hamilton trade. I think we'd be just as good as we are now if we still had Stack and not Rip.

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (valo35 @ Jul 13 2007, 06:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think the Pistons could have slowed them down. Isaih Thomas and Joe Dumars both played tough defense on the perimeter, infact Jordan went on the record to say that Dumars played tougher defense on him than just about anyone else Jordan faced in his career. They both played pretty physical for little guys, and did a good job of playing that way at all times. They could have definately slowed down that Cavaliers back court. Rodman and Laimbeer were tough and physical, and would have been able to keep Brad Daugherty and Larry Nance from being able to score on the inside to much. So defense would not have been a problem at all, as well as Laimbeers tough and physical nature would have caused problems for their perimeter players when they drove in.As for being able to score, Laimbeer scored enough to atleast give them a credible threat down low. He was a consistent 13 point per game scorer, and if you didn't pay attention to him, with Isaih Thomas's passing, he could easily go for alot more. So he helped to provide some scoring, just enough to stretch the floor. With Isaih Thomas, Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson, and Mark Aguirre who was also a solid defensive player from the bench, they had more than enough scoring to keep things up. Their scoring was enough to match their tough and stingy team defense, that caused everyone else in the NBA problems, and would have gotten them over the Cavaliers in a seven game series.</div>Like I said it could go either way but it would have been a tight series. Both teams had advantages over the others, but I believe clevelands advantage would have been that all 5 of their starters could score 15 ppg and all 5 could hold the pistons starters to 15 ppg or less. tough comparison when it comes to those two teams. If the Bulls had charles oakley in 89 I believe they could have also beat that pistons team.

 

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Bernard KingMark JacksonJohn StarksSpreeKurt Thomas( well I liked him on the the Knicks)

 

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Almost every fan in San Antonio and alot of fans in the U.S. do not remember how great Larry Kenon was for the spurs. There have only been 3 spurs to average 20/10 for their entire spurs career, Tim Duncan, David Robinson, and Larry Kenon. Alot of people forget about him because he was playing for the spurs during the Gervin Era, and he was the second option to George which makes it even more amazing that he put up those kind of numbers. He came through my checkout line at the grocery store one day when I was working and I said to him, "How's it going Mr. Kenon." Then he was amazed that I recognized who he was, he thought I was his neighbor at first, but then I told him that I recognized him from the spurs. He then said that he rarely gets that from anybody in san antonio, they just think that he is and tall old black guy. Its a shame that nobody in S.A. recognizes him. He was a great player.

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PrimeTime @ Jul 13 2007, 06:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Like I said it could go either way but it would have been a tight series. Both teams had advantages over the others, but I believe clevelands advantage would have been that all 5 of their starters could score 15 ppg and all 5 could hold the pistons starters to 15 ppg or less. tough comparison when it comes to those two teams. If the Bulls had charles oakley in 89 I believe they could have also beat that pistons team.</div>I don't believe that everyone of them could hold the Pistons starters to under 15 points per game. There is no way that Harper and Price would have been able to limit Dumars and Thomas like that, as both were good enough and savy enough to be able to do well against those two. To go along with that Mark Price and Ron Harper really was not that great of defensive players to hold Thomas and Dumars like that. Bill Laimbeer wasn't a 15 point per game scorer anyways, but I do believe that neither Daugherty nor Laimbeer was tough enough on the inside to really keep Laimbeer away from the basket and stop him from getting his 13 points per game. Laimbeer would be to rough and physical for anyone on the Cavaliers team. Mark Aguire and Vinnie Johnson(from the bench) would also provide more than enough scoring to keep them up with the Cavaliers. I don't see any way that their five could all keep the Pistons starters from doing what they usually did, just like I don't see the Cavaliers team as a whole keeping the Pistons from doing their thing. That was not a physical team by the Cavaliers, and the Bad Boy Pistons would be able to rough up the Cavaliers.As for each of their starters being able to score 15 points or more, I think that Brad Daugherty would be able to do that, but I don't think Larry Nance would be able to do it consistently each game. Rodman or Laimbeer which ever drew the assignment to guard him, would cause him alot of problems, and force him into doing worse than ussual by that stage in his career. To go along with that, not all of the Cavaliers starters scored 15 points per game anyways. Only four on the team averaged more than 15 points per game, which was Daugherty, Price, Harper, and Nance. Mike Sanders the fifth starter didn't even average an entire 10 points per game. So I really don't think they would have a problem keeping atleast two of their 5 starters below 15 a game, with a good chance that Dumars would be able to cut off Price from being such a big outcome on games.

 

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Pistons: Adrian Dantley (Not even in the HOF...Forgotten?)Mark AguirreKelly TripuckaDave Bing

 

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Reggie Lewis.