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rennyren · 01-19-2007, 04:09 AM

Webb's been a defensive liablity his whole career, not just his Philly days. But I'm not really concerned about that. Since Ben first arrived here, we were able to defend better than anyone but couldn't score at all. We've had trouble defending and scoring this year so far. For a long time it was because we never had a real post presence. Webber answers a lot of questions. Coach Flip has spent his career devising a brilliant offensive system for the tools he has to work with, and hiding players who are a defensive liabilty in his zone. He's done a masterful job at both really. And in the new age of the NBA, zones DO work, I figure us to be fine defensively there. With a zone, we might ACTUALLY be able to stop some of the dribble penetration that has always cause us problems (see playoffs: Dwayne Wade, Tony Parker/Manu Ginobli). I think the Pistons will be just fine on defense this season.I think the Pistons will be deadly now from everywhere on the court on offense. I saw Chris be the center of what I call "two-man action" plays in his first game and get easy buckets for Rip (he missed his layup that normally would go), Chauncey (drilled the three), and Tayshaun (drilled a nice wide open jumper).Unless you have Shaq or Yao Ming on your team, there's no such thing as a good TRUE center in the league anymore. Ben Wallace isn't. He's a Dennis Rodman-type power forward, we got by and made do with what we had. As proven, a TRUE center, is not necessary really. Sheed and Chris will do a fair job of gobbling up rebounds. The both can score pretty much at-will from either block and hit jumpers when their game is on. Both can pass well, but Chris has exceptional vision for making plays. Chauncey can create off the dribble and play excellent pick n roll ball. With Rips constant motion, we can eat teams a live with by throwing it to Chris in the high post and let him make finds for Rip cutting to the basket. Tayshaun can create his own shot and score from anywhere on the court. The offense will be better now than it EVER has been... (I'm gonna bite my tongue but maybe better than the Bad Boys days...), best of yet, we still don't have ONE superstar (we have five), but we still will operate as a TEAM. You can't forget that has been our winning modus operandi anytime we have ever had a dominant squad.

01-19-2007, 04:09 AM	#14 (permalink)
rennyren Newbie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2	Webb's been a defensive liablity his whole career, not just his Philly days. But I'm not really concerned about that. Since Ben first arrived here, we were able to defend better than anyone but couldn't score at all. We've had trouble defending and scoring this year so far. For a long time it was because we never had a real post presence. Webber answers a lot of questions. Coach Flip has spent his career devising a brilliant offensive system for the tools he has to work with, and hiding players who are a defensive liabilty in his zone. He's done a masterful job at both really. And in the new age of the NBA, zones DO work, I figure us to be fine defensively there. With a zone, we might ACTUALLY be able to stop some of the dribble penetration that has always cause us problems (see playoffs: Dwayne Wade, Tony Parker/Manu Ginobli). I think the Pistons will be just fine on defense this season.I think the Pistons will be deadly now from everywhere on the court on offense. I saw Chris be the center of what I call "two-man action" plays in his first game and get easy buckets for Rip (he missed his layup that normally would go), Chauncey (drilled the three), and Tayshaun (drilled a nice wide open jumper).Unless you have Shaq or Yao Ming on your team, there's no such thing as a good TRUE center in the league anymore. Ben Wallace isn't. He's a Dennis Rodman-type power forward, we got by and made do with what we had. As proven, a TRUE center, is not necessary really. Sheed and Chris will do a fair job of gobbling up rebounds. The both can score pretty much at-will from either block and hit jumpers when their game is on. Both can pass well, but Chris has exceptional vision for making plays. Chauncey can create off the dribble and play excellent pick n roll ball. With Rips constant motion, we can eat teams a live with by throwing it to Chris in the high post and let him make finds for Rip cutting to the basket. Tayshaun can create his own shot and score from anywhere on the court. The offense will be better now than it EVER has been... (I'm gonna bite my tongue but maybe better than the Bad Boys days...), best of yet, we still don't have ONE superstar (we have five), but we still will operate as a TEAM. You can't forget that has been our winning modus operandi anytime we have ever had a dominant squad.