Things had been pretty quiet around the Motor City Sports Blog offices the past week.
The brouhaha over Sidney Crosby’s snub of Nicklas Lidstrom, as well as the fact that our Winged warrior came up one game short of the cup, has worn off.
And the Tigers have been playing great, with a seven-game winning streak (aside from a blown lead and a couple of flops on the road).
The Lions and Michigan Wolverines are making all the right noises in their march toward incompetence.
And aside from the draft, nothing really much from the Pistons. My bet was on Joe Dumars giving Michael Curry another year, and a better, more motivated roster, to prove himself.
There’s going to be a lot of speculation about who should coach this team. My concern is that this group of players, who won a great championship in 2004, has a chip on their collective shoulder. In every year since 2004, they have come up short. But they still talk the talk and walk with the swagger of a championship team. The sad truth is that they’ve fallen quite a bit since their 2004 win.
Is this group of players coachable? Can they dredge up the humility they need to recalibrate their collective work ethic and make at least one more serious run at a title? And can they do this in a conference that’s going to be dominated by LeBron James for the next few years?
Pistons fire Michael Curry | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
