Detroit Sports Blog - Motor City Sports Blog » Lebron James http://www.motorcitysportsblog.com Detroit Sports - News, top stories and commentary about Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines. Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:24:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Cavs beat Pistons 99-78, capping series and ending era http://www.motorcitysportsblog.com/detroit-pistons/cavs-beat-pistons-99-78-capping-series-and-ending-era http://www.motorcitysportsblog.com/detroit-pistons/cavs-beat-pistons-99-78-capping-series-and-ending-era#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:33:40 +0000 Jeff http://www.motorcitysportsblog.com/?p=164 Like you, I watched yesterday’s Pistons game hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. And the only positive thing you can say about the game is that our expectations were met.

The Pistons 2008-2009 season came to a crashing halt on Sunday as “King” LeBron James further solidified his reputation as one of the greatest players in basketball. And he did so at the hands of an unraveling, aging Detroit Pistons team.

James had 36 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists for the Cavaliers in this series-clinching game.

Over the next few weeks, there will be much noise in the local and national media about what this team needs to do to recover.

Getting younger will help, hopefully Rodney Stuckey will emerge from Rasheed Wallace’s shadow.

Getting hungrier will also help. Even with his talent, Tayshaun Prince may not be more than a mere role player. Coach Michael Curry certainly gave Prince an opportunity to prove himself this year and Prince did not meet Curry’s challenge.

I think that Joe Dumars realizes this and I suspect that he’s also plotting a few key pickups that he can make through free agency. We’ll see what happens, but we do know for sure that this look and feel of this team is changing.

That we can expect.

Freep.com: LeBron dusts off Pistons for sweep

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]]> http://www.motorcitysportsblog.com/detroit-pistons/cavs-beat-pistons-99-78-capping-series-and-ending-era/feed 0 Pistons now down 3-0, clock ticks toward the end of an era http://www.motorcitysportsblog.com/detroit-pistons/pistons-now-down-3-0-clock-ticks-toward-the-end-of-an-era http://www.motorcitysportsblog.com/detroit-pistons/pistons-now-down-3-0-clock-ticks-toward-the-end-of-an-era#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:11:15 +0000 Jeff http://www.motorcitysportsblog.com/?p=155 It’s always like this in the end. Athletes rarely quit before their time is up (Barry Sanders is the exception to this rule) and teams are rarely broken up and reimagined by their management before they are unraveled by a younger, hungrier and yes … more talented team.

What’s happening to the Pistons in this series is not merely an issue of a “lack of effort.” Yes, the Pistons won a championship and made it to six consecutive conference finals and yes, they are a talented bunch of players. And yes, their lack of effort could probably be the root cause of them not having achieved more (remember wondering where Rip and Chauncey were in Game 7 of the 2005 NBA Finals?).

But let’s not focus on the Pistons right now, because as much as we don’t want it to be this way, the cold, lonely truth is that their effort is irrelevant to the outcome of this series.
Rasheed Wallace in game 3.
The Pistons are simply in the way of a young player who is on the verge of greatness.

Lebron James is willing himself and his team towards the NBA Finals and even without that willpower, I’d propose that Lebron could almost get there on his talent alone.

Last night, James was one assist shy of a triple-double. He is inspiring his teammates to play above their level and contribute their fullest. And that, my friends, is how championships are made.

Yahoo! Sports: Game Recap

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