What the hell has happened to the Cold & Windy City?....has their water been poisoned? Bulls were uniformly magnificent first round sweepers and now the Pistons are eating them for lunch. This one is hard to believe....Bulls so keyed up on Miami they forgot theres more games to follow. Weird.......Dallas also turned off the switch vs an 8th seed Golden State. NBA......winning the crown is the toughest challenge of them all. Uh.....Malloy....don't come knocking as a late Detroit Bandwagonner 8)
Bulls are too young, Detroit is an experience championship team. Bulls have a lot of talent and their time is comming. Just not this year.
I think the Bulls are far more talented than the Pistons....as the Mavs were vs Golden State I think the coaching and game preparations by Detroit is at this time the difference. I will be shocked if they are swept.
I ain't sayin' nothin'. OK, OK, last season the Pistons played hard all season because the year before they lost in 7 because they didn't have home advantage in game 7 vs SA. It took too much out of them and they struggled with Cleveland before losing to the Heat. This year Dallas had the same thought in the back of their heads and the results were even worse. This year, the Pistons didn't try to win 80 games. They were ready and rested for the playoffs. Sooner or later they'll lose. (they're 6-0, Tigers 8 in a row, Wings 2 in a row, Gee it's great to be a sports fan in Detroit. And we don't have to worry about fires or hurricanes. )
All Detroit fans need to worry about is a riot at the Palace....other than that...things are boring as usual We'll see if Bulls continue to be off cue tonight in Chicago...I was hoping for a good series 8)
Hey it's beautiful up here. It's in the 80's low humidity. Had a nice rain for the gardens yesterday and it will be nice all weekend. No fires. No drought. No worry about incidents at the Palace. The thugs have been warned about going into the stands to attack fans.
Ho-hum Down 19 and win by 7. The Pistons are one win away from their fifth straight trip to the conference finals. Just how shitty must a team be to not get at least one game from the Bulls?
Its impressive that Detroit came back from 19 in a rush at the end of the third quarter.....talent doesn't always translate into victories...the young Bulls have athleticism but Rasheed Wallace, Prince, Hamilton and Billups still have enough in the tank to run with Chicago after three quarters....a show of energy the Heat lacked vs Bulls. Its over......Browns wont stop Detroit either but NBA west will 8)
Environment Dirtiest Cities Just Get Dirtier Robert Malone, 03.21.07, 2:00 PM ET DETROIT IS THE THIRD DIRTIEST CITY :roll: In Pictures: America's Dirtiest Cities The world has to face the fact that dirt costs, and dirty cities cost big time. Today over half the world lives in urban as opposed to rural environments. This means ever more concentrated dirt. Urban environments create their own ambiance. The dirty cities are where air pollution, water pollution, ground pollution and open landfill problems are out of control. To these less-than-glorious conditions there may be added in some cities mercury or lead poisoning, radiation poisoning or other severe risks. Part of dirt is garbage. In the state of New Jersey, every person throws away their own body weight every seven weeks. But garbage is complex dirt, since it may be recycled and act as a source for materials and money for the recycler. Garbage out of control is either uncollected rubbish or badly disseminated landfill. Garbage out of control leads to ground pollution, air pollution and water pollution. In Pictures: World's Dirtiest Cities In Pictures: America's Dirtiest Cities The relationship between traffic pollution and garbage pollution could use some intense study worldwide since these two sources, combined with industrial waste and energy generation, comprise the core of urban dirt. Take batteries--which the world uses in ever greater numbers. Each contains heavy metals, and their incineration can cause toxic air pollution. Coal, the mainstay of China's Great Leap Forward, is the nastiest energy source when it comes to air pollution. Choices have to be made in tradeoffs of economics and health since not every energy source can be clean and cheap. Despite dirt's economic and environmental costs, governments have been slow in keeping track of just how dirty the world is. The U.S. and some European cities and countries have more data than dozens of other countries and hundreds of cities that don't really know how dirty they are at all. To clean up, the first order of business will be to find the dirt and record it. Such agencies as the United Nations statistics division are overtaxed and, as a result, often out of date. Others, like the Blacksmith Institute, an organization that does global studies of city pollution, and the American Lung Association, appear to be making some headway. "The good news is we have known technologies for eliminating a lot of this pollution," says Richard Fuller, founder and director of the Blacksmith Institute, which in addition to its global studies of the most polluted cities also makes recommendations for their cleanup. The Blacksmith Institute's 2006 report states that, "living in a town with serious pollution is like living under a death sentence. If the damage does not come from the immediate poisoning, then cancers, lung infections, mental retardation are likely the outcomes." Of the 10 most polluted cities according to the Blacksmith Institute report, three are in the Russian Federation. The Ukraine's Chernobyl remains at the top of the list 20 years after the horrendous nuclear accident there. When the focus is U.S. cities, the American Lung Association's latest report for 2005 states that 55% of Americans live in areas with unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution. It appears that U.S. citizens do not have to visit Russia or China to get a lungful of bad air. Some hope that the EPA's new, stricter emissions standards--put in place in December 2006 as outlined in the Clean Air Interstate Rule--will make a difference, at least in the U.S.
Well the Pistons don't play tonight but the first place Tigers and Wings do. If I have some spare time, I'll try to collect some Detroit dirt and send it to Southern Fla. in the hopes that it will give them the toughness needed to be successful in professional sports.
I live in both New Jersey and Florida. I dispose of the same amount garbage in both locales. I suspect I'm not alone.
8) Are the Pistons gonna slip up tonite and let the Bulls back in? does anyone agree Detroit looked tired? Hmmmmm......interesting game this evening
Hmmmm.....Bulls outpacing Pistons in mid to late third quarter....youth vs veterans....what happens next? The series is now Det 3 Chi 2.......no team has ever come back from 3-0 in any professional sport to win a 7 game series. Is this the year it happens?
Actually, 3 teams have. 1. the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs (Detroit) 2. the 1975 New York Islanders (Pittsburg) I will not name the third expect to suggest that your long friendship with JIF may have been irrevocably damaged. On the other hand, you may have gained a new best bud from New Jersey.....
Last night was an example of a team that couldn't miss. Chicago hit 8 of their first 9 and shot 77% in the first quarter. In the game they shot 10 or 16 from behind the arc. That's 30 points in 16 shots. That's the same as shooting 94% frim 2-point range. If they shoot like that the next 2 games they deserve to win the series. If they don't they're history.
This morning I heard on ESPN radio part of the testy exchange yesterday between David Stern and Dan Patrick re: the Suns-Spurs suspensions. Stern (correctly IMO) took the old school position of individual responsibility to adhere to the rules. In other words, whether they are right or wrong, they are the rules and the players know the rules and the punishment for breaking them. Patrick took the prevailing media position of blaming the NBA for "hurting" the Suns, ignoring the responsibility of the players to adhere to the rules. I'm not a big NBA fan. I was happy to hear Stern call out Patrick in a very assertive manner. I'm sure it won't affect Patrick or any other media wag who wants to continue blaming the NBA, but it showed me that the commish has things under control.