Chapter 3: Chuck Daley, the Devil's Leader

In Davidson's first season at the helm, Lannier averaged 24 points and 12 rebounds per game, and Bing averaged 19.0 points and 7.7 assists per game, Curtis Lowe averaged 12.4 points and 7.1 rebounds per game, and the team made the playoffs for two consecutive years, but lost in the first round, and the following season, Bing ended his career with the Pistons, and Bing was sent to the Washington Bullets in exchange for small guard Kevin Porter.

At that time, Bing had become the spirit and leader of the team, and the trade was completely proposed by Bing, who just wanted to play for his hometown team in the twilight of his career, and the new owner Davidson agreed to the deal, in exchange for Kevin Porter, who was the league's assist leader at the time, the small guard who was only 185 cm tall had his fourth season with the Pistons, averaging 12.6 points and 10.2 assists per game.

Dave Bing is the first Hall of Fame-level superstar in the history of the Pistons, a seven-time All-Star, a scoring champion, and three times selected to the league's best team, 9 of the 12 years of his career have been spent with the Pistons, and currently Dave Bing has scored a total of 15,235 points for the Pistons to rank fourth in Pistons history, 2,828 rebounds ranked 17th on the team, and 4,330 assists ranked third in team history. Bing is a full leader, off the court, Bing is a very quiet player, his favorite thing to do in his life is to read books, and to read financial books, Bing took out a loan to start a steel production room after retiring, and now, Bing's steel plant is one of the top ten steel companies in the United States, creating more than $500 million in net profits every year, which is unthinkable in the NBA that goes bankrupt after the star retires, do you think this is a legend? In 2009, Bing announced his entry into politics and was elected mayor of Detroit in the election for mayor of Detroit that year, defeating Barrow......

In 1990, he was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

Okay, let's bring the topic back to the conversation and continue to talk about this piston that doesn't know where the direction is.

In the 1975-1976 season, the Pistons selected Detroit native guard Eric Manny with the 45th pick in the second round of the draft, Manny quickly became an indispensable scorer on the team's bench after growing up in his rookie season, and Rainier was still unstoppable this season, averaging 21.3 points and 11.7 rebounds per game, shooting 53.2% from the field. Lowe averaged 16.0 points and 8.7 rebounds per game, Manny averaged 13.0 points per game and Kevin Porter averaged 12.6 points and 10.2 assists per game as the team made the playoffs for the third year in a row, but fell in the second round again.

In the 1976-1977 season, Manny and Porter played a big dive, the former averaged only 10.2 points per game, the latter was even worse, averaging only 8.9 points and 7.3 assists per game, Lennier averaged 25.3 points and 11.6 rebounds per game, although he reached the playoffs for four consecutive years, but finally fell in the first round, 3 games Lennier played the true nature of the monster to the fullest, averaging 28 winds, 16.7 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game, and the shooting rate was as high as 63.0%, But the team as a whole is still inferior to others.

In the 1977-1978 season, the Pistons were hit by injuries, and only one player on the entire team had a full attendance rate, Kevin Porter was traded to the New Jersey Nets, the Pistons failed to enter the playoffs, this season the Pistons were innocently shot because of the scoring title battle between David Thompson and George Gervin, and in the last game of the regular season, the Pistons played against the Nuggets, at this time the Pistons had determined that they could not enter the playoffs, and the whole team just wanted to finish the game early and go fishing, and did not want the Nuggets' "Skywalkers" In order to be able to win the scoring title, David Thompson scored 32 points in the first quarter to set a record for the highest score in a single quarter in the NBA, and scored 73 points in the whole game, which was second only to Zhang Dashuai's single-game 100-point feat at the time, and inadvertently set the Pistons on the shame column......

In 1978, Witson moved the team's home stadium to the Pontiac Silver Stadium in the suburbs of Detroit, but it was larger and more luxurious than the previous stadium, and at the same time, in the draft, the Pistons took two players, and selected the shooting guard John Lang with the 37th pick in the second round, Lang is 196 cm tall and weighs 88 kilograms, and is the mold of a standard scoring guard from the physical point of view, and he did the same, and Long has been among the team's starting lineup in his rookie season. He averaged 16.1 points per game and climbed up every year for the next four years. The other player is Terry Taylor, the first pick in the second round, this guy has become an indispensable outside gate for the Pistons in the next seven years, and what is even more commendable is that he has 100% attendance in these seven years, and yes, he has not missed even a single game, which is amazing.

This year, Lannier averaged 23.6 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, Kevin Porter wore the Pistons jersey for the second time and played another season, averaging 15.4 points and 13.4 assists per game, and was sent to the Washington Bullets after the end of the season, the team is 16-66 this season, creating the worst record in NBA history, it doesn't matter if the team does not enter the playoffs, the key is that the team can't find a direction now, Lannier is getting older, and no one of the young players can afford to be a leader for the time being, which is the biggest problem facing the Pistons at this time.

In the 1979-1980 season, Bob McAdoo, the star of the former Buffalo Braves, briefly joined the Pistons, averaging 21 points and 8.1 rebounds per game, and then left New Jersey, and the team also failed to make the playoffs for three consecutive years.

In the 1980-1981 season, Rainier asked the team to trade him, and as a result, he went to the Bucks, Rainier's departure stemmed from the continuous decision-making mistakes of the Pistons executives in recent years, which always made the team uncompetitive, but very star, kind Rainier still loves the Pistons very much, on the plane, everyone can hear Rainier crying bitterly, although he loves here, but for the championship, he still left here, the Pistons got Kent Benson and a first-round pick, Rainier played in the Bucks, brought the Bucks to the playoffs for four consecutive years, and Kent Benson can only be regarded as a decent short center, averaging 12.1 points and 7.1 rebounds per game, without Lennier's Pistons is equivalent to no backbone, the team's record fell rapidly, and then in the 1980-1981 season, the Pistons only won 20 games throughout the season, the second-to-last in the league, and no player on the team scored more than 20 points, the most scoring was John Lang, who averaged 17.7 points per game.

Ranier currently ranks third in franchise history with 15,488 for the Pistons, second only to Bill Ranbial with 8,063 rebounds, 13th all-time with 504 assists and third-highest all-time with 859 blocks. In 1992, Rainier was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame, and at the same time, his No. 16 jersey was retired by both the Pistons and the Bucks, and both jerseys were retired at the same time, which is rare in the NBA.

The poor record allowed the Pistons to get the No. 1 pick in 1981 and take down a small guard, he is only 185 centimeters tall, but he has a skillful dribble, lightning speed, strong will, always played with injuries in college, and his shooting posture is not the most important thing - every position can be a shot, these are not the most important, the main thing is that no matter what moment he is facing, whether it is a victory, a loss, a goal or a block, he always has a big smile on the corner of his mouth, he is Isaiah Thomas, nicknamed the "Smiling Assassin".

Thomas was poor when he was a child, he was the youngest of nine children in the family, his father, like most black people, disappeared when Thomas was three years old, his mother raised nine children alone, his mother was a stubborn and brave woman, because Thomas's home was in the poorest and most dangerous place in Chicago, as soon as he walked out of the house, it was full of violence, drugs and all kinds of * deals, so his mother always had to carry a shotgun by his side to keep the family safe, Such a family allows Thomas to smile no matter what difficulties and obstacles he faces in his later life.

Thomas wasn't the only pick the Pistons had in the draft, trading Lennier to get the 12th pick in the first round, and the Pistons took out the University of Notre Dame guard, Kyrie Tripka, who is 198 cm tall and weighs 100 kilograms, is a prolific shooter, and in his first year as a rookie, he has averaged 21.6 points on 49.6% shooting per game, and was selected to the All-Rookie Team for a while.

The Pistons made a trade with the SuperSonics The Pistons sent potential center Paul Mokoski to get the offensive sharp two-way guard Venice Johnson, from the perspective of later generations, this deal is enough to hang the SuperSonics management in the bathroom, Mokoski has been a third-rate center in the league since then, averaging only 4 points and 3 rebounds per game, while Vinier Johnson has become the Thigh of the Pistons, this person is nicknamed "Microwave" means that he can play a role on the court, Johnson is muscular, and he is also a master who is not afraid of things, This season, he averaged 15.8 points per game, shooting 51.3%, and was the team's third leading scorer, and for nine years, Johnson became an indispensable force on the Pistons bench, Johnson has enough strength, strong breakthrough ability, and good rebounding ability, the key is that he doesn't need to warm up, just plug and play like a microwave oven, as long as Daley waves his hand, Johnson immediately rushed out to blow up his defender, shot the opponent's basket, in Daley's bad boy army, Whenever it comes to critical moments, Daley will always offer a three-guard tactic, and Johnson is the strongest attacking point among the guards, and his scoring ability is even stronger than Dumas and Thomas!

This season, Isaiah Thomas averaged 17.0 points per game and 7.8 assists but also averaged 4.2 turnovers per game, which also made him selected for the best rookie team, John Long and rookie Tripka became the Pistons' outside attack arrows, Tripka averaged 21.6 points per game, Long averaged 21.9 points per game, and the shooting percentage was also quite high 49.2%, halfway through the season, the Pistons made an important trade with the Cavaliers, The Pistons' interior player can only be used by Kent Benson, averaging 12.5 points and 8.7 rebounds per game, which is not enough to see in that era when the basket was rampant, so the Pistons traded three role players for the Cavaliers' interior center Bill Ranbill.

Ranbial was drafted by the Cavaliers with the 21st pick in the third round in 1979, but it took him a year to play in the NBA, so the question is, what was Ranbier doing during that year? He wondered if he wanted to play in the NBA.

In fact, Ranbill's father is quite rich, he has several companies under his control, Ranbier's career earns less than one-tenth of his father's company's net profit in a year, Ranbier doesn't like basketball at all, he likes to read the newspaper every morning, drink coffee and live a comfortable petty bourgeois life, but he can't find such a suitable job, and he doesn't want to go to his father's company as an idle job, so, because he grew tall, he entered the NBA to play.

A few years after Ranbir retired, a reporter asked him why you chose the NBA, and Ranbir said angrily,

Because I can't find a suitable job......

It's that simple......

Height 211 cm, weight 111 kg, average physical condition, not high jump, not fast, but is a veteran of the "dark world" on the court, good at all kinds of small actions to plot the opponent, he can quietly put his feet on the point where you want to fall when you jump to grab a rebound, can be when you jump and shoot, an elbow smashes on your face, all in all, when the opponent faces Ranbir, they can't concentrate on playing at all, they must spend at least thirty percent of their energy to avoid injury, in addition, Ranbier is also the founder of "fighting basketball", kicking elbows, as long as he can interfere with the opponent to do anything, the vast majority of people in the league are resentful of Ranbier's tricks, and those who want to beat him can line up from Miami to New York, but he is such a big demon who does all kinds of evil, and he can play safely in the league for 14 years, and he is also a very practical, and the attendance rate is very high.

Off-court factors aside, Ranbir is an excellent rebounder and offensive point initiator, he can get off the floor quickly, can fight for frontcourt rebounds, and can even hit three-pointers, and he averaged 12.8 points and 11.3 rebounds per game in his first season with the Pistons.

In the 1982-1983 season, Tripka became the team's offensive core, averaging 26.5 points per game and shooting 48.9% from the field. Thomas averaged 22.9 points, 7.8 assists and 2.5 steals per game, Ranbir scored 13.6 points and 12.1 rebounds in 82 games, John Long, who shone last season, played a dive this season, averaging only 10.5 points per game, and Kent Benson was hit by injuries, playing only 21 games this season, averaging only 9.9 points and 7.4 rebounds per game.

In 1983, the Pistons ushered in a qualitative change, they Chuck Daley became the team's head coach, he used to be mixed in the college game, and his performance was quite good, he became an assistant coach of the Philadelphia 76ers in 1978, and became the head coach of the Cavaliers in 1981, but was fired because of a poor record of 9-32, after which Daley returned to Philadelphia and became a commentator, and accepted the invitation of team owner Witerson this season to return to the mountain. Daley, known as the "Devil's Leader", started with tough defense, played roughly, and did whatever it took to win, and his two most famous sentences were aimed at Jordan, the first of which was to Joe Dumas - "If you die, you will die with Jordan!" The second sentence is to Rick Mahon - "The next second, I'm going to see Jordan bleeding from the door of his head!" ”

Daley's horror is evident from this.

Daley was 52 years old when he was appointed head coach of the Pistons, but he was dressed like a young man in his thirties, always wearing hairspray on his head, and the clothes he wore were not allowed to have a little wrinkle.

"If you want to win, it's very simple, you only need to do three things to win easily, and that is to give the ball to your teammates who are in the open position, to return quickly to the defense, and to get stuck."