Webber weighs in
Posted by pistonsnationI don’t watch the national broadcasts if I don’t have to, give me Blaha over everyone. So if you weren’t watching TNT’s coverage you probably missed Chris Webber’s take on the Pistons. Luckily The Starting Five has us covered:
Webber on the lack of intensity by the Detroit Pistons: “(The Pistons) are really nonchalant and that’s why I felt we lost last year (in the Eastern Conference Finals). It sounds crazy, but they could care less. That locker room is crazy, disciplined and unruly. Disciplined because they police themselves, they are all veterans, they know they’ve got to be in bed, they know they’ve got to work hard, I’m not talking about on the court. They come from a coach like Larry Brown, they look at him like the epitome of basketball, and they feel they can wait until the last game or the championship and they won’t lose. I’m not saying it’s right, but that’s how it is.”
He’s probably not winning over any of his teammates from last season over with those remarks, true or not. I always thought what goes on in the locker room stays there? The Pistons can be nonchalant, and it has come back to bite them but so did signing Webber. He really underpreformed in that Cleveland series as our starting center. He wasn’t the reason the Pistons lost, but he was definitely a contributing factor.
It would have been nice for him to have just a little more loyalty for the guys he was in the foxhole with. I guess he’s bitter we didn’t pick him up (thank God!).
Again, click over to The Starting Five if you tuned in to the TV20 broadcast, because they’ve also got Kenny Smith’s take and Charles Barkley’s bash on the ‘Stonz.
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[...] halftime, but I certainly heard about them. Fortunately, The Starting Five has the transcript (via PistonsNation): Webber on the lack of intensity by the Detroit Pistons: “(The Pistons) are really nonchalant [...]
April 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm