They had NO SUPERSTARS & STILL won the NBA Finals - 2004 Detroit Pistons Documentary
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- čas přidán 6. 02. 2023
- The "Building a Champion" series here on the Sports for Days channel highlights underdog seasons where teams who were overlooked, rose to the occasion when the situation called for it & won at the highest level, beating the odds & exceeding all expectations.
Its June 2004 & the Pistons are aiming to win their 3rd championship in team history, but it took a lot for them to get to this point. In the 1980s, The Pistons were known as a tough & gritty team led by Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars & Bill Laimbeer. Nicknamed the “Bad Boys” for their physical play & fierce attidudes, they were responsible for holding back the leagues golden child, Michael Jordan, from winning championships early in his career. They won back-to-back rings in 1989 & 1990 but age & injuries caught up to them & ended the bad boy era. The Pistons then lucked up & drafted who was supposed to be one of the best players of the next generation but by the late 90s that didn’t turn out the way they hoped so the Pistons hired one of the former bad boys as their team president to turn things around & that’s exactly what he did. He got rid of a few all-star fan favorites to bring in some young unproven talent but it paid off as the team made steady improvements year after year & by 2004 they made a championship run where they beat the odds & ended one of the greatest dynasties that the NBA has ever seen. Here is the story of the 2004 Detroit Pistons
0:00 Intro
01:10 The Grant Hill Saga
04:03 2000 - 2001 Season
07:06 2001-2002 Season
09:09 2002-2003 Season: The Arrival of Chauncey Billups & Rip Hamilton
15:52 2003 Offseason: Drafting Darko & Hiring Larry Brown
19:53 2003-2004 Season
22:32 2004 Playoffs
24:25 Conference Finals vs The Indiana Pacers
26:25 NBA Finals vs The LA Lakers - Sport
I think if they drafted Melo their chemistry wouldn't have been as good 🤷♂
That team is easily one of my favorite favorites.
Dumars didnt get enough credit for putting that team together. Take away one piece and it wouldn't have worked. Genius!! Still one of my all time favorite players!!
Take it from me being a die hard SPURS fan. These pistons we're my favorite team in the east because they played defense just as good as we did. It was insane. I can see how that Lakers super team was overwhelmed they used the same blue print pretty much my Spurs used to beat l.a. in 2003 to end their threepeat to perfection. These pistons we're just way better at it. Team Chemistry will always be stronger than a talented super team. That is why all the player's on these pistons team's we're deadly on the court. I still remember that 05 finals. This piston team was the hardest team I've ever seen.
I'm a die hard Det fan and feel the same way about the Spurs. I always rooted for them unless we were playing each other lol. Coaches were from the same tree and built their teams the same way. U guys just had better players and executed a little better when we played in the finals. One of the most hard fought finals I ever seen! Those were the days lol. Look at us now!!
@@BrOWnsR4real wow. Cool man. One thing for sure we we're both blessed with two incredibly good team's and franchises. I ALWAYS have nothing but good thing's to say about this Detroit team they earned the respect.
@@oronasundial SAME!!
@@BrOWnsR4realbut dude take it from me I know a thing about the 04-05 season I aged during that incredibly long season watched and recorded just about every Spurs game even the eastern conference finals that went to 7 games where detroit won on the road. The Spurs had home court in the finals won the first two only to loose the next two in ridiculous blowouts. Detroit seemed unbeatable at home. If we didn't have luck and the will to pull away finally in that 4th quarter detroit would had won it. Just think of this we had our big three in their primes a solid center and a loaded bench. Yet we still barely won. That's insane That's how good that detroit team was. I'd pick them over any team just about. In other words that wasn't any ordinary Spurs title team it was our strongest in all honesty.
@@oronasundial that's a great point! Never really looked at it from that POV! Always liked the Spurs fan base as well. U know how some teams have an obnoxious fan base lol? I hate the cowboys just because of their fans. No other reason! Yankees too! Theyre the worst no matter if they win or lose! All the excuses in the world if they lose and all the praise if they win.
That Darko pick still makes me sick lol
He got a ring lol, sure woulda been nice to have had Chris Bosh or Dwade :/
Only mistake Joe made was drafting Darko, otherwise he put together an incredible ream and coaching staff. Great video.
Great video!
Dumars had nothing to do with shipping Grant to Orlando. Dumars retired that Off Season and DID NOT WANT Grant to leave. The Pistons did NOT want to get rid of Grant, but the mishandling of his Injury and wanting to go join with Duncan (or so he thought) meant he wasn't coming back. He agreed to do the Sign and Trade, because he was a Class Guy, and wanted the Pistons to get something for his leaving. If Dumars had his way, Grant would have still been a Piston.
Dope. All the CZcams videos I seen on this team are 5-10 minutes long maybe 15. No one goes depth it’s just a quick review of the starting 5 Players maybe going into details proceeding the 03-04 explaining why they could never win again but no one explained how they got here. Only interviews with the players explaining the past but never in a documentary on the whole team
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Hope I'm not misremembering, but I think there was an article where players complained that Carlisle was fired because he tried to call every single offensive play.
Deeeeeee-troit Basket-baaaaallll!!!
A 3 year old Wilt Chamberlain is what they must have meant when comparing Darko to “a young Wilt”.
0:00 Intro
01:10 The Grant Hill Saga
04:03 2000 - 2001 Season
07:06 2001-2002 Season
09:09 2002-2003 Season: The Arrival of Chauncey Billups & Rip Hamilton
15:52 2003 Offseason: Drafting Darko & Hiring Larry Brown
19:53 2003-2004 Season
22:32 2004 Playoffs
24:25 Conference Finals vs The Indiana Pacers
26:25 NBA Finals vs The LA Lakers
They had no super star. If you don't consider Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace a super star then you weren't watching the NBA in 2002. And if you did then you don't know basketball.
Rasheed was very talented but not a superstar. You can make an argument for Ben Wallace maybe being a super star but I would say he was a star at best.
This is horrible and inaccurate analysis. Shoot me a message and I’ll tell you precisely what happened.
Yeah. This was my era.
@@sportsfordays2039Do you want to know why they got rid of Rick Carlisle? It’s because he was too hard on players. The Pistons had legendary scout Scotty Robertson (former local coaching legend) to talk to him, and Rick hung up the phone on him. Bill Davidson had to get rid of him at that point. There is one point of clarification.
Grant Hill had horrible ankle injury and played through it. He never sat out. Dumars didn’t decide to get rid of him, We wanted him back. Grant wanted to make a super team with McGrady and his wife wanted out of Detroit. Dumars was given a gift - That he capitalized on - with the request for sign and trade. Grant was gone, regardless of what Pistons wanted.
I think Darko arrived when the pistons were contending. No one can expect him to do great things at 18. Bad luck! Every other year, the same thing happened. I feel sad for him. I guess he got some good money at least.