Joe Dumars
Joe Dumars
Joe Dumars IIIis an American retired basketball player in the National Basketball Association. At 6'3"Dumars could play either shooting guard or point guard on offense and was a highly effective defender. He played for the Detroit Pistons from 1985 until 1999. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dumars and Isiah Thomas combined to form one of the best backcourts in NBA history. Initially a shooting guard, Dumars moved to point guard following Thomas' retirement in 1994, sharing ball-handling duties...
bar fame hall players trying
I never even thought about the Hall of Fame as a player. Really, all I thought about was trying to play to a bar that players before me had set.
capable few surprised teams
I'm not surprised at all with our guys. This is one of the few teams you're going to find capable to do that.
games guy proven won
He's proven in this league, and he's been in big games as a guy who has won 50-plus games for years,
great realized reinvent
He realized he had a great thing; he didn't try to come in and reinvent the wheel.
camp chance good looking playing training
He's looking good and playing well. It was just a chance to get to see him play before training camp starts.
control guard nba playing point position
I don't think there's a point guard in the NBA playing better than him right now. He has a control of the position that has him playing on a different level.
game hear talking three
I could hear him before the game one time. All I know is that there was a lot of talking going on early, like in the first two or three minutes.
running thinking groups
The one thing that I really want, ... is for our second group to be an energy unit. That's what we had in our championship run, and that's what I think you are starting to see with this group.
smart player three
We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.
league worst offers
Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst.
responsibility player thinking
I think the (brawl) made the league and the players more conscious of our responsibility to the public.
basketball thinking play
I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.
night thinking hands
We can talk about the value of sportsmanship on one hand, and on the other hand, the leading shots, highlights ... you see every night are the outrageous and unsportsmanlike, so I think there is a double standard here. On the one hand, we complain about it, on the other hand it's the first thing you see every night.
years cows sacred
You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.