Michael Curry next Pistons coach

[MapleLeaf]

via ESPNnews

 

[Pugz]

Well he's expected to be the next coach but yea...

 

[RipCity32]

I would of prefered Avery, but Curry will do. I'm just happy Flip is done.

 

[dez]

CC called it

 

[Grandy28]

Yeah boi.

Now just to trade Sheed and add Hunter to the coaching staff.

 

[Pugz]

Yeah boi.

Now just to trade Sheed and add Hunter to the coaching staff.

If you got to watch the press confrence it sounds like Dumars WILL trade Sheed and others. He was kind of making it sound like he wants a superstar type player youth and good role players. As for Lindsey he's already got a office job with the Pistons(thats how his last contract waas made 2years and a office job with Joe)

 

[Grandy28]

If you got to watch the press confrence it sounds like Dumars WILL trade Sheed and others. He was kind of making it sound like he wants a superstar type player youth and good role players. As for Lindsey he's already got a office job with the Pistons(thats how his last contract waas made 2years and a office job with Joe)

Well I didn't get to watch the press conference and I hope they do get a superstar. Thats what they are missing.

Lindsey needs to get on the coaching staff though.

 

[.loggie]

good sign.. i wonder where flip will go now

 

[.loggie]

official article

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Flip Saunders was fired as the Pistons' coach Tuesday, four days after Detroit was eliminated from the playoffs by the Boston Celtics. And more changes could be on the way for a team bounced from three straight conference finals.

Pistons assistant Michael Curry will be named Saunders' successor, a source close to the Pistons told ESPN's Stephen A. Smith. Curry is a former Pistons player and official in the players' union.

"Make no mistake, everybody is in play right now," said Joe Dumars, the Pistons' president of basketball operations. "There are no sacred cows here. You lose that sacred cow status when you lose three straight years.

"This will not be a long, drawn-out process," Dumars said about a replacement for Saunders. "The next coach is going to be handed a good team. You worry more when you don't have the players to compete at the level you need them to."

Saunders had a year left on a four-year deal he signed in 2005. His ouster comes three years after he took over for Larry Brown, who led the Pistons to two straight NBA Finals.

"I think this team became way too content and did not show up with a sense of urgency to get it done," Dumars said at a news conference. "I can't sugarcoat it. It is what it is."

Dumars stopped short of saying he would dismantle the Pistons.

"The idea you can make yourself bad and make yourself good again, that's a farce," he said. "I have no interest in completely ripping the team down. Will I look to making significant changes? Yeah, you're damn right I will."

A message seeking comment was left for Saunders on Tuesday.

In Saunders' three seasons, the Pistons were 176-70 in the regular season and 30-21 in the postseason, but they lost in the Eastern Conference finals each year.

The Pistons have appeared in six straight conference finals, the first franchise to do so since the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s. But they also are the second team in league history to lose in the round before the NBA finals three years in a row, joining the Celtics from 1953-55.

Dumars decided a year ago to bring back key players who have been together since the 2004 championship season, as well as Saunders, while infusing energy with rookies and young reserves. But after the loss in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals to Boston on Friday, the likelihood of change grew.

Before coming to Detroit, Saunders was 411-326 with the Minnesota Timberwolves from 1995-05. He led them to eight straight postseason appearances -- seven first-round exits and an appearance in the 2004 conference finals. After leading Minnesota to a franchise-high 58 wins, he was fired with a 25-26 mark in the 2004-05 season.

 

[Pugz]

good sign.. i wonder where flip will go now

I read somehwere that the suprise coach the Bulls are going to interveiw is Flip and I also read that the Suns like Flip a lot.
So he'll end up in one of them places prolly.

 

[jarrod2323]

Flip in PHX? that would be a good fit IMO

 

[Mexi]

Flip in PHX? that would be a good fit IMO

Rumor has it that Terry Porter is he Suns new coach

 

[Pugz]

Rumor has it that Terry Porter is he Suns new coach

He should be a good coach, i wish him the best.