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Originally Posted by Cross-Over
Detroit is a good team, but their lack of consistency is what I think has plagued them the most.
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Exactly. And it's strange because 1) Detroit had the best record in the NBA after January, 2) Detroit won a league best 11 (!) straight games going into the playoffs. ELEVEN STRAIGHT. After the Philly series, they stopped playing with any consistency. My theory is that Larry Brown most likely leaving after the season has killed their confidence. Brown was the guy responsible for turning Ben Wallace into a decent scorer the last half of the season, where he regularly,
regularly scored in double figures, scoring 29 on one occasion.
Now, he hardly ever shoots. He had 30 double-double games in the regular season, and was 2nd overall in the NBA blocked shots. In the playoffs this year, Lindsey Hunter (guard), off the bench, has more blocks than Ben!! That is fucked up. Since Philly, the intensity that made him defensive player of the year is completely gone. Vanished. It's been mentioned in the press that one of his good friends from back home died, and one of his brothers had surgery recently, so who knows. I tend to think that Larry Brown's leaving is the main reason for much of the inconsistency all the Pistons have had. The whole organization, the fans, the players, all love Brown.