Comments on: Flipped: Pistons Coach Flip Saunders fired http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/flipped-pistons-coach-flip-saunders-fired/ All Michigan, All the Time Fri, 17 May 2013 11:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Absolute Michigan http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/flipped-pistons-coach-flip-saunders-fired/#comment-37739 Absolute Michigan Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:41:48 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/?p=1265#comment-37739 Pistons promote Curry to coach from the Lansing State Journal

Michael Curry will be the Detroit Pistons head coach next season after only one year as an assistant.

A former teammate is not surprised.

Curry is set be introduced as Detroit’s new coach at a news conference Tuesday, Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars told The Associated Press.

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Michael Curry is equipped to lead Pistons via the Freep

The best thing you can say about Michael Curry is that he didn’t have much talent.

“Michael wasn’t a great shooter,” said John Hammond, the former Pistons assistant coach and executive, who just took over the Milwaukee Bucks. “Michael wasn’t great passer. And Michael wasn’t a great ball handler.”

Also, Michael was undersized for his position. Yet Curry somehow started 269 games in the NBA, and most of them were for winning teams.

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