Detroit Pistons

The Cleveland Cavaliers travel to Detroit to take on the Pistons at The Palace for game 3. Detroit will look to capitalize on home court advantage and avoid a 3-0 deficit. The Cavs intend to apply the pressure and should be victorious. Here are three huge reasons why the Cavaliers can win. Ball Movement As of lately, Cleveland has been practicing magnificent ball movement. The team always looks for that extra pass for the open shot. Unselfish basketball usually has positive results. The Cavs…

Eastern Conference Central Division fourth ranking team Detroit Pistons defeated the conference leader Cleveland Cavaliers with a 96-88 victory at the Quicken Loans Arena Monday night. Pistons guards Reggie Jackson and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope led the Auburn Hills-based three-time NBA champion club to withstood the late comeback run of the Cavs to end a five-game losing skid. Jackson dropped 23 points, with 4 assists, 3 rebounds and 3 steals while Caldwell-Pope added 19 points. 4 rebounds and 2…

6 blocks per game with 3.16 steals per game. The Chicago Bulls finish the season with a 50W-32L, which was the first in Michael Jordan’s career. As they defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games, however the Bulls lost to Detroit Pistons in five games. Detroit Pistons led by Isaih Thomas, the “Bad Boys” would always double or triple team Jordan as soon as the ball touch his fingertips. The next year Jordan continue to led the league in scoring, with 32.5 (ppg) with 53.8% scoring. The Bulls…

entered the playoffs in the second seed. In the first round the Cavaliers defeated the Washington wizards in all four games. In the semi-finals the Cavaliers won 4-2 against the New Jersey Nets. Then in the conference finals the Cavs defeated the Detroit Pistons 4-2. LeBron helped out the team a lot and in the 5th game he scored 48 points with 9 rebounds and 7 assists, and scored the game-winning lay-up. He received a lot of praise from…

Setback in Minnesota During Friday night’s game against the Detroit Pistons, Minnesota’s starting point guard Zach LaVine went down hard halfway through the 3rd quarter clutching his left knee. Nevertheless LaVine managed to get up and continue playing throughout the quarter finally sitting out in the fourth. Unfortunately for the Timberwolves the Pistons pulled through and won the game 116-108, while LaVine finished with 20-4-4 on 9-13 shooting. Fast forward to Saturday, the Timberwolves…

Attention Discussion - Project Group 2 For this week’s discussion the article that stud out to me was Mind Games. The article was about Stanley Johnson a forward from the Detroit Pistons basketball team. One of the examples regarding stimulus was how at the end of last season he sat down with his coach and talked about his goals and the team goals for next season. From talking to the coach Stanley realized how much work the coach put into each season and what he needed to do to improve his…

NBA Trade Rumor: A Possible Team Round Up The trade season mostly happens after December 15, although at some point, there are situations that need to be dealt with. With the recent events, the trade can be seen earlier before the next season starts. The interim head coach of Minnesota Timberwolves, Sam Mitchell, decided to relegate Kevin Martin for the starting shooting guard position and replaced him by Zach LaVine. In the Star Tribune, Martin says, “I came off the bench for a 60-win team and…

The (2-8) Los Angeles Lakers are in the valley of the sun, Phoenix, Arizona, to battle the (5-4) Suns. The Lakers, led by an all-around effort by Kobe Bryant, Jordan Clarkson and a defense that held the Detroit Pistons to 37-percent shooting from the field helped the purple and gold notch their second win of the season and first home win of the 2015-16 season. While in Phoenix, time permitting, the Lakers could view Camelback Mountain, for a challenging hike on Cholla trail, also a visit to…

The Spirit of Detroit is a sculpture made in the heart of Detroit. It is a large bronze statue, standing twenty-six feet high and is located at the Coleman A. Young Municipal center on Woodward Avenue. Behind the statue, is a Courts Tower's marble wall element that has various passages, symbols, and writings that symbolize Detroit. The extensively creative detail amidst the statue and the messages behind the sculpture provide a visual argument of hope for the people that walk by it every day and…

ESPN’s Basketball Power Index gives the Golden State Warriors a 75 percent chance to win the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers in a championship rematch. In this year’s postseason, the Warriors won back-to-back series in five games over the Houston Rockets and Portland Trail Blazers. However, Golden State is coming off a tough, physical series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, which took the Warriors to seven games before Golden State advanced to face the Cavs. At times, the Warriors…