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Nowadays when certain teams play you see this instead of one team doing this all the time. I'm a Warriors fan and when we play the Clips, you see Bogut and Greene especially doing this.
I was never a fan of the style of play that characterized that version of the Pistons. I don't care for MMA or the MMA version of the NBA.
NBA players shouldn't have to dress up and fight like Roman Gladiators to play the game. Not interested in a game where there are more fouls than good plays.
I'm jealous that I missed out on that era. I was born in metro Detroit around the time that squad was making its championship runs. I did, however, thoroughly enjoy the Chauncey/Rip/Tayshaun/Sheed/Big Ben era. Went to plenty of games and had a great time. It's too bad they were underachievers as they should have won at least 2 rings given how they went to the ECF 6-7 times in a row. That '04 run was pure magic, one of the most memorable teams in NBA history really. They were a group of cast-offs that came together to defeat the big bad star-studded Lakers. That Pistons team was the antithesis of the the cocky, arrogant, "superteam" in Miami right now.
And I say this as a Bulls fan. If we could take those Bad Boy teams, put them in a time machine and let them play in 2014, that'd be awesome. Of course with the way they played and the way the players and refs are today, every game would be over at halftime because
A) a brawl
B) every Piston fouled out or
C) the other team would be so banged up they'd forfeit
Loved the bad boys and was so sad when they somehow never recovered from being swept in 1991. I will never understand why they just fell off the face of the earth after losing to the Bulls.
This thread reminds me how much i hate michael jordan
Probably because they were seen at the time as taking hard fouls and on-court thuggery to a new level. Actually, when the Bad Boys arrived on the scene circa 1987, the NBA actually promoted them as being sort of the Oakland Raiders of basketball.
The criticism of their style of play came for two reasons in my opinion: they instigated a lot of fights, and they began to consistently shut down Michael Jordan (i.e. The Jordan Rules) and his team. When they put the brakes on the NBA's biggest attraction, and he started complaining about the Pistons' physicality to the league, the NBA withdrew their promotion of the Bad Boys and came up with the flagrant foul rules, so Jordan and the league's other high-flyers could safely go to the hoop as many times as they wished. I am certain the NBA also was worried that with the Pistons' success, more teams would start building their own Bad Boy imitations in order to handle the Pistons and/or intimidate or hammer other teams into submission (as the Knicks did during this period).
Probably because they were seen at the time as taking hard fouls and on-court thuggery to a new level. Actually, when the Bad Boys arrived on the scene circa 1987, the NBA actually promoted them as being sort of the Oakland Raiders of basketball.
The criticism of their style of play came for two reasons in my opinion: they instigated a lot of fights, and they began to consistently shut down Michael Jordan (i.e. The Jordan Rules) and his team. When they put the brakes on the NBA's biggest attraction, and he started complaining about the Pistons' physicality to the league, the NBA withdrew their promotion of the Bad Boys and came up with the flagrant foul rules, so Jordan and the league's other high-flyers could safely go to the hoop as many times as they wished. I am certain the NBA also was worried that with the Pistons' success, more teams would start building their own Bad Boy imitations in order to handle the Pistons and/or intimidate or hammer other teams into submission (as the Knicks did during this period).
It wasn't call on-court thuggery, it was called "MAN BALL"
It wasn't call on-court thuggery, it was called "MAN BALL"
Yes, I call it that, you call it that, so do many of us fans. But not the corporate-owned media, or the league and its corporate benefactors, who want to soften the sport as much as possible so their superstars whom they are paying millions of endorsement dollars to can just go to the basket any time they want to and produce more highlights for ESPN.
Same thing's happening in the other leagues, especially the NFL. That league has almost become unwatchable to me thanks to Roger Goodell's seeming efforts to turn it into a flag-football league.
Loved the bad boys and was so sad when they somehow never recovered from being swept in 1991. I will never understand why they just fell off the face of the earth after losing to the Bulls.
This thread reminds me how much i hate michael jordan
I also believe MJ was responsible for Thomas being excluded from the Dream Team despite Chuck Daly being head coach. MJ said that if Thomas was on the team, he would not participate and the NBA didn't want that to happen because Jordan was still on the rise at the time and his popularity would help increase international exposure to the NBA.
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Never a fan of the bad boys
