Cavaliers better than Pistons, why blame AI?

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Allen Iverson can do one hand pushups while dribbling a basketball

Cleveland has moved ahead of the Detroit Pistons. There is no question about that fact and it was established early on. They may even have been ahead of the Pistons last year. It is just that nobody wanted to admit it.

The Pistons core is old and slow and it shows.

Yet everyone wants to blame AI. You think if Chauncey was still here the Pistons would lead the division and win it all? Not me. Do not put me in that camp. Billups was done being a Piston. He is far more potent on the Nuggets, a team out of control that needs some control.

Even the Nuggets are only 6 – 4 in their last 10 games in what is now regarded as the weak West. Chauncey does an excellent job of settling them down and setting them up. He has a couple of peak years left. All that is good.

But Chauncey would only be holding back Stuckey’s development if he played for the Pistons. He had to go. Picking up AI gives the Pistons some needed offensive steam or have you forgotten the long periods of no scoring exhibited by the Pistons the past few years?

Can AI play defense like Billups? No, not even close. Is AI the cure for the Pistons problems? No, not a chance. But why blame him for the problems. If you watch AI then you know he gives is all on the court. He is relentless.

Well, they have played more than half a season. And it seems clear to me that Stuckey, Hamilton and Prince give the Pistons the best chance to win now and later.

That is not a knock on Iverson, who is doing his best to win a championship, in the only way he knows how. But the Pistons look disjointed offensively.

Iverson dominates the ball too much when he has other great players on the court with him. He and Stuckey can be electrifying in the open court, but as Prince said, “Whenever we play a team and their offense gets going, it shows that our offense slows down. They get their defense set, and that’s where we struggle.”

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It seems the AI experiment is not working at this time, but then that is what it was, an experiment. Joe D and the Pistons cannot lose in the long run, because Allen Iverson is on the last year of a 22 million dollar contract.

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