Chapter 2 Uncle Obard of Korea

In 1957, in order to expand the market, Zorner relocated the Pistons from Fort Wayne to the then big city of Detroit, but the glory of the big city did not bring good luck to the early Pistons.

In the early days, the Pistons continued to operate a number of basketball players into the team, these players are considered first-class stars, but they are still a little short of historical stars, the team's meritorious veteran George Ardri stayed in Detroit for two years and then switched to Syracuse Private Capital, retired a year later, Uncle Fu was traded to the Lakers, got the same position, Walter Dukes, who is two years younger than Uncle Fu, this person's offensive ability is not as good as Uncle Fu, but the ability to grab rebounds is higher than Uncle Fu, In the Pistons, he maintained a continuous 13+ rebounding output, Jena Sue, when the Pistons were still in Fort Wayne's last year, they poached Sue from the Knicks, Sue is an all-round scorer, able to output 20+ points per game, in 1957, the Pistons poached star guard Devon McGuire from the Knicks, Uncle McGuire is a template for the early organizational guards in the NBA league, with average offensive ability, but excellent overall view, good kung fu for passing the ball with one hand, especially good at hitting the ground and passing, basketball IQ is quite high, In 1959, the Pistons selected forward Bailly Howell with the second pick in the first round of the draft, Howell also averaged a total of 20+ points and more than 10 rebounds per game, and in the five seasons of the Pistons, Howell was selected as an All-Star four times.

At this time, although the Pistons team has a number of good players, the team has never formed its own style, the head coach has come and gone, changed one stubble after another, and there has never been any breakthrough in the record.

The Pistons' time came and went in 1962, they picked forward David Debaschel in the draft, Uncle De can be said to be the first superstar in the history of the Pistons, Uncle De is not tall, not strong, but strong-willed, started with defense, is the originator of the "blue collar star" in NBA history, although he is not tall, but any opponent standing on the court does not dare to underestimate him, therefore, the fans gave him the nickname "Big D", it is not for nothing that Uncle De can be so popular in Detroit, First of all, Uncle De is a native of Detroit, and his parents are local blue-collar workers in Detroit, and secondly, Uncle De's college is also spent in the local university - the University of Detroit, not only that, Uncle De not only played basketball well when he was in college, but also was very good at baseball, and there was no reason why Uncle De was handsome when he was young, and he studied well, and a pair of melancholy eyes made thousands of girls cry and shout to give him a child, which is simply the belated Prince Charming in Grimm's fairy tales. In the 21st century, the Korean Oba in the hearts of girls.

At that time, American basketball was still in its infancy, and it was not as good as baseball, so Uncle De made an unprecedented decision to play basketball and baseball in professional leagues at the same time. The NBA's salary for him is $15,000, and in the baseball league, the Chicago White Sox baseball team joined by Uncle De offered him a sky-high price of $75,000, people's energy is limited, and the Pistons owner Zorna is certainly not willing to let his players be distracted by such things, but he is not happy and can't help it, who makes his parents handsome, alive and well, there are many fans, and the price of baseball is still high, even if there is no way, it has to be like this.

Although Uncle De distracted some of his energy in playing baseball, Uncle De's performance in the first season of the NBA was still very good, averaging 12.7 points and 8.7 rebounds per game and was selected for the NBA's best rookie team.

In the second year of his rookie, he was hit by injuries and only played 15 games throughout the season, and the Pistons' record was naturally sparse, and in 1964, the Pistons made an important trade, and the Pistons sent Howell, Orr, and a number of draft picks to the Washington Bullets in exchange for star swingman Terry Diesinger, who is a player with strong offensive ability and shot more than 50% from the field in his career, and came to the Pistons' first season. Averaged 18.2 points and 6.0 rebounds per game, and this year, our Uncle De averaged 16.7 points and 11.1 rebounds per game, and was the team's first and second scorer. Although this season's Pistons still failed to enter the playoffs, the future of the Pistons with twin stars is undoubtedly bright, who would have thought that when Zorna was still concerned about the future of the team, Uncle Di Singh Di was drafted into the army, and he did not step into the professional basketball arena for two years, and the Pistons, who were just about to rise, suddenly collapsed again.

In the absence of Uncle Dee, the former little backup Eddie Myers emerged, and he played the strongest performance of his career this season, averaging 19.6 points per game, and with such a performance, Myers was also selected to the All-Star team for the only time in his career.

In the 1966 NBA draft, the Pistons ushered in a real, Hall of Fame-level superstar, he is guard Dave Bean, Bing's career, or life trajectory is very legendary, Bing was born in a poor black family in Washington, USA, his father is a bricklayer, his mother is a domestic worker, and there are four children in the family, but unlike other black people who have been mixed up in society since childhood, and their parents are negligent in discipline, Bing's parents are very strict with them and cultivate their tenacity since childhood. The character of not admitting defeat, when Bing was five years old, fell off the horse, a nail was inserted into Bing's left eye, although he did not lose an eye after treatment, but the vision of the left eye was only half of the level of a normal person, but the injury did not knock down Bing, but made Bing study harder than others, Bing chose Syracuse National University in college, where he grew from an unknown basketball player to a superstar in the college league, and finally in the 1966 NBA draft, Drafted by the Pistons with the second pick in the first round.

Bing's technical characteristics are offense, he is an accurate shooter attacker, always running tirelessly on the court, his speed is fast, breaking through is a big killer move, passing the defender straight to the basket, when someone makes up for the defense, Bing can pass the ball out in time and send it to his teammates in the open position, Bing's first season in the NBA, he averaged 20 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game, such a performance earned him the year's rookie trophy.

In the 1967-1968 season, the Pistons ushered in a leap forward. Bin averaged 27.1 points per game, becoming the first guard player in NBA history to win the scoring title, Debusscel stepped down as a coach this season (79-143 in his coaching career, never made the playoffs, his coaching career was not too successful, but at Debschel's age, it was already very good), and also said goodbye to his baseball career, focusing on playing on the court, averaging 17.9 points and 13.5 rebounds per game, at the same time, the team also has reinforcements, the rookie conference, the Pistons won the talented guard Jimmy Walker with the first pick in the first round, Walker is the father of post-NBA player Jalen RoseBut before Rose was born, Walker left Rose's mother, and did not contribute to Rose's subsequent growth, the only contribution that can be regarded as a contribution is to contribute super athletic genes, Walker has mainly played as a substitute for Bing this season, averaging 8.8 points per game.

The Pistons' reinforcements don't stop there, they traded Harpy Haylston, nicknamed "Muscle" (yes, this nickname is so simple and crude), from the Cincinnati Royals, Hairston is 201 cm tall, weighs 102 kg, is muscular, has excellent rebounding ability, and also has a good ability to finish under the basket, He averaged 18.8 points and 10.1 rebounds per game in his first season with the Pistons, and of course Terry Deisinger, who returned from retirement, after retiring from military service, Uncle Dee was far from being as good as he was back then, only 13.1 points and 6.2 rebounds this season, playing as the team's sixth man, this season's Pistons won a 40-42 record, and seven years later reached the playoffs again, six games later, the Pistons lost to the then powerful Boston Celtics, and Bing averaged 28 points per game in these six games.

In the 1968-1969 season, the Pistons made another important trade, they sent our beloved De Busscel to the Knicks, and got the talented center Walter Bellamy, which ended his six-and-a-half-year Detroit career, and now De has scored a total of 7,096 points in the history of the Pistons, ranking 17th in team history, 4,947 total rebounds, ranking 6th in team history, and 1,152 total assists, ranking 20th in team history.

It's hard to say that this deal is a success or not for the Pistons, and Bellamy is undoubtedly a prehistoric monster with strong dominance. In his rookie season, he averaged 31.6 points and 19.0 rebounds per game, but after two seasons, the Pistons were in rebuilding considerations, so they sent Bellamy away, only in exchange for three unknown small roles, and the Pistons missed all the playoffs in the past two years, and Uncle De immediately helped Willis Reed win two consecutive championships after being sent to the Knicks, and reached the peak of his life.

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In 1970, the Pistons won another first-round pick and selected Bob Lannier, a big center from New York City, Lannier was the teacher of the legendary center Chris Webber of the Kings, he was 211 cm tall, weighed 113 kg, strong body, and his basket skills were very good. The face is also more vicious, but in fact, he is a very kind heart, good at funny people, and has a good relationship with his teammates around him, Lennier was an interior beast in college, known as the second best interior player after Abdul-Jabbar, except for the first season, and then in the five years after Bing was traded to the Bullets, Lennier replaced Bing and became the Pistons' leading scorer, but Lenier's character agreed that he could not be a leader, So even though the team has shifted its offensive focus to the interior after Lannier's arrival, the leader of this team is still Dave Bean.

It's all an afterthought, as Bing made a big splash in Lannier's rookie season, leading the team to a nine-game winning streak to make the best start in team history, scoring 22 goals in a single game against the Bulls in February, scoring 54 points alone to replace George Adri, ranking fourth in the league with 27 points per game, and the Pistons 45-37 that season, becoming the team with the highest record of any team that failed to make the playoffs.

In the 1971-1972 season, Lanier showed his true colors as an interior bully, averaging 25.7 points and 14.2 rebounds per game, and Bing and Jimmy Walker also averaged more than 20 points per game, but it was still not enough to take the team to the playoffs, and at the end of the season, Terry Deisinger was sent to the Trail Blazers and retired after one season. In the 1972-1973 season, the team made another big mistake and sent Jimmy Walker, who had already played a high price, to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Stu Langzi, who said that Langzi was a case of growing from an unknown small role to a star. In the first year of his career, he averaged only 7.8 points per game, 14.5 points in the second year, and in the third year, he has grown into a star who averages more than 20 points per game+ score, that is, this year, bluffed Zorna.

In 1973-1974, the Pistons hired Ray Scott as the team's head coach, Ray Scott was once a Pistons veteran, played for the Pistons for five and a half seasons, averaging 15 points and 10 rebounds per game, and in the last season of the Pistons team, he also became teammates with Bing, who was still a rookie at the time. That year, Lanier averaged 22.5 points and 13.3 rebounds per game, Bin averaged 18.8 points and 6.9 assists per game, and Curtis Lowe, a rookie selected with the 11th pick in the first round that year, averaged 10.7 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, becoming the team's No. 3 firepower. The Pistons went 52-30 for the year, and Scott won the Coach of the Season trophy, the Pistons made the playoffs for the first time since 1968, but were defeated in the division finals by the Bulls who had Bob Love, Jerry Sloan, and Rick Adelman.

In 1974, the Pistons team had a breakthrough in its record for many years, and the team owner Zoerna was not a rich man, so Zollna had no choice but to sell his beloved team, and the new receiver was Bill Dyerson, the Pistons team at that time was founded for 23 years, and before that, there was no substantial profit for 17 years, and the team's record was rotten, but the selling price was a sky-high $6 million at the time, which discouraged many people. But Delson was a visionary and bold boss, and despite the dissuasion of those around him, he resolutely took over the Pistons, and the Pistons turned a new page under the leadership of this successful businessman and great philanthropist, step by step, to the top.