I love this quote, but unfortunately Stuck’s not alone, after last night all the Pistons should be calling Billups daddy.
Joe Dumars does not care about the Haier Shooting Stars Competition
I hope Joe Dumars is able to find a happy place when the Pistons lace ‘em up against the Nuggets because I sure can’t.
Seeing Chauncey Billups score 25 on 6-for-11 shooting while Charlie Villanueva and Ben Gordon combine for 14 points on 6-for-16 shooting breaks my heart. I’ll take the guy “on the downside” of his career who is averaging 20 points and 6 assists on the second best team out west over two wildly inconsistent young gunners any day of the week.
Last night while joining George Blaha in a second quarter broadcaster swap Nuggets’ color guy Scott Hastings commented that the Billups trade worked out for both teams. Ok, there’s Denver, so who’s the other team? Hastings was known as a funny guy during his playing days, so maybe that comment was showing everyone he still knew how to pull a good rib?
Then there’s Arron Afflalo whom Joe sent to Denver for cap space. In return we get a future second round pick. Maybe since we’re near the bottom of the league in perimeter defense we could use that pick on a guy who could help to correct that? Maybe a guy like Arron Afflalo perhaps? AA scored 14 connecting on 4-of-6 from downtown, meanwhile Villanueva and Gordon -three point specialists mind you- combined to shoot 2-for-8 behind the long line.
Then there’s a Carmelo Anthony. All we missed out by drafting Darko Milicic is a 30 & 6 guy that is the definition of a franchise center piece. That’s all.
As witnessed last night the Nuggets have two guys in Chauncey and ‘Melo who are go-to-guys when a game is close. The Pistons have ZERO. Plus, Chauncey Billups and Carmelo Anthony are two really cool names. Just thought I’d throw that in there.
Last night’s game wasn’t totally horrible. The Pistons hung in a game that they surely weren’t picked to win. It’s just hard to ignore the woulda-coulda-shouldas playing against Denver. On a glass-half-full tip Joe Dumars has given us a team to pull for as we await the draft lottery results.
My rooting interests no longer have to end after All-Star Friday Night’s Rookie Challenge. Now I’ll have a Mr. Big Shot to pull for in the 3-Point Shootout.
Hopefully CB does better than he did in ‘06 where he didn’t get out of the first round.
Very entertaining (unless you’re an Iverson groupie)
(H/T: Steve Kays)
Looks as if J.R. Smith must have agreed to come up off the #1 for Mr. Big Shot. As of tonight Denver’s official roster page still has Chauncey as #7, but a ticket advert on the main page clearly shows Billups wearing, an albeit photoshopped, #1 Nuggets jersey.
Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images
UPDATE: Here’s confirmation of the number change via Fanhouse — last line. (HT: nmiko)
Great vid. Tearing up, not really, but still.
The Nuggets pulled even at a game a piece in their series with the Lakers and Chauncey had this heads up play at the expense of Kobe Braynt.
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