As a kid my father rented “Pure Pistons,” which is the name of this documentary (I’m sure as a Pistons fan yourself you already knew), from Blockbuster. My friends and I were big time Bad Boys Pistons fans (I went to all star weekend in Chicago in 2020 and even got into a few lighthearted heated debates with Bulls Fans who tried disrespecting our guy Isiah who like them is from Chicago….they’re so ungrateful 😂😂😂). Anyhow… my friends and I would watched this on VHS so much and especially the Terry Porter part you’re talking about, we’d rewind that so much just to laugh at (we’d even pause it and talk smack to the TV screen as if he could hear us 😂) that part of the tape would mess up.
Me an my Buddy Eric did the same thing we Had Black Back to Back 89 90 Championship Hats on playin 2 on 2 against the 2 kids down the street they'd wear there 23 33 Red Jersey MY older sister made us T shirt we was some Bad Boys Back then too!!;)
Terry Porter = if " Be careful what you ask for " were a person... Also when the buzzer sounded Clyde Drexler slammed the ball & said: we ain't coming back.... They sure didn't did they?
In the top 3 teams of ALL time. Can’t say it enough…13 starters…any one of them would have been an elite star on any team in any time period. Unquestionable.
I never get tired of watching 'The Bad Boys' Detroit Pistons. Those two championship teams (back to back) are indeed great champions! Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Mark Aguirre, Vinnie (The Microwave) Johnson, Bill Laimbeer, Dennis Rodman, John Salley, James Edwards... Those teams were extremely watchable.
3peat Pistons is wat they really we're 88 89 90 those 3yrs they was the Best in Basketball 1991 they was Goin for 4 and it all makes since looking back They could play a guards game they could Go Low with Edwards LAIMBEER STEPPING BACK FOR THE 3 THIS WAS THE LATE 80'S FOLKS THINK ITS SAFE TO SAY THEY WAS AHEAD OF THERE TIME NO MATTER HOW U BREAK IT DOWN!! NOT MANY "IF ANY" TEAM COULD BEAT THIS DEFENSIVE MINDED CHAMPIONSHIP SQAUD I THINK THERE THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT!!! Look at who they played my God 86 Celtics 87 SHOWTIME an the up an Coming dynasty Bulls MJ in his Prime!! Magic Grabbin the MVP BUT WHO WAS GETTIN IT DONE AN WINNING FINALS MVP'S WHO ELSE THE BEST BACK COURT TANTUM IN THE GAME IN #11 THOMAS #4 JOE DUUUUUUUMARS!!! BOY THEM WERE GREAT DAYS!!! BAD BOYS FOR LIFE!!! 😂
No, Bill lamebeer as we called that POS in Boston is not even close to being a HOF player, not a bad player by any means, but absolutely not worthy of the Hall
Def should be!!! My Dad used to tell me if he hadn't played basketball, he would of def been a pro golfer. Happened to be at the same club the night the Shock won the WNBA ship, and we were celebrating my bday. Laimbeer was cool af, and happy and cordial. Mahorn.....total dick.
@@ericjohn8466 in Boston we called him Lamebeer because he had no game, played dirty then Robert Parrish bitch slapped his face to the famous Boston Garden parquet floor, I was at that game, refs didn't see it, Parrish stayed in the game, Lamebeer was crying like a little whiny bitch, LoL! Lamebeer sucks!
It's interesting to me before the NBA got rid of the 2-3-2 Finals format a few years ago the Pistons is the only franchise to win 3 straight roads games('90 Pistons) and win 3 straight home games ('04 Pistons) on the way to winning the title.
What I find interesting about the 88-89 Pistons and 03-04 Pistons is the fact that they both had to go through the top LA Lakers Dynasties of the 80’s and early 2000’s at the very last round in the Finals, as if they found themselves against the strong final boss to win, and they shocked the world in both those occasions. The Detroit Bad Boys Pistons crew of 1988 through 1990 & Detroit two tower Pistons crew of 2003-2004 deserve so much more credit for doing things that no other team could easily try to do.
@@jerrym12182005 Pistons were also the only team under that format in history to win Game 6 on the road while being down 3-2. No other team ever forced a Game 7 on the road.
After dropping their only playoff game at the Palace that year, the Pistons went to Portland, a place where they hadn't won since 1974, and blanked the Blazers 3-0. Portland failed to win a single finals game at home. In game 5, the Blazers were up 7 with 2 minutes to go. Drexler fouled out and the Blazers did not score another point, Detroit scored the final 9 points and took their second consecutive title. Can't make that sh*t up.
#1 I cannot believe this is 33-34 years old. #2 Weird seeing the Palace, now a development. RIP Palace, JLA, and Silverdome. #3 80s-90s Detroit teams were next level overlooked (besides the Wings) 3 of the 4 all won their respective championships. Two of em, repeats. #4 I absolutely LOVE that George Blaha is the only "voice of the Pistons" still, and has been as long as Ive been consciously aware of the Pistons. Easily 40 years. This video brings so much memories to the front. The Worm, Spider, Microwave, Zeke, Bad Boys, DeeDee Troit BASKET-BAAAALL, the 'Stones.
HATERS GONNA HATE YOU KNOW WHY?? BECUZZ DETROIT BEAT THERE TEAM AN BEAT THEM BAAAAD!!! 3STRAIT YRS PISTONS REIGHNED ON TOP THE LEAGUE AN HURT A LOT OF FEELING TURNING GROWN MEN INTO LITTLE GIRLS WHO CRY BOUT HAND SHAKES ITS THE MOST TELLING THING IVE EVER SEEN!!! SAYS ALL U NEED TO KNOW KIDS TAKE NOTES...
Bullshit. Every team played like that back then. Detroit defense is what won them these chips and why people hate so much. A big part of why bad boys haters are so loud is because they knocked off the bird celtics and the showtime lakers. Two of the most popular teams and franchises.
@@jbl7946I always say the same thing about the series between the Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks in the 1994 playoffs during game 6 where the Bulls were very close to winning and closing out the Knicks at Chicago Stadium, but that one very messed up questionable call by the referee Hue Hollands that literally was a called foul as one of the Knicks was shooting a three pointer near the closing seconds of the game, it was a three shot foul that drastically altered the course of the game in favor of the Knicks coming back and winning the game to stay alive and head back to New York for game 7 where the Bulls lost, even though the game was still close. The Knicks definitely were going to lose in game 6 back in Chicago, if it wasn’t for that messed up three shot foul that was called on Scottie Pippen, and if you look at the replay of that play, you clearly see that Pippen didn’t even touch the Knicks player that was shooting the ball from the three point line in desperation. I think Scottie might even have tipped the ball and almost blocked that shot as he rushed over to try and stop it with a block. The 1994 NBA Finals would have been very different, and so would the Eastern Conference finals because the Indiana Pacers were next in line waiting for the winner of the Bulls vs. Knicks series. I’m not sure if the 1994 Chicago Bulls would have beat the 1994 Indiana Pacers, or even the actual 1994 Championship placeholders The Houston Rockets, but those would have been damn good series battles, and the Bulls may have 4 peated and got that chip without Michael Jordan, which would have been very impressive. The Chicago Bulls in 1994 were still a very good team too as well.
@@Gregory-sm9pfGet Lost man THIS DETROIT PISTONS TEAM IS RITE UP THERE WITH THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT YOU DONT KNOW BASKETBALL 🏀 AN R A BULLS FAN IM SURE SO GO WATCH THAT SHT AFTER ALL WE TAUGHT THEM HOW TO WIN!!!
@@jbl7946 no nitwit, I'm from Boston Massachusetts, I'm sure you know who my team was and the pistons finally beat my Celtic's when Bird was dealing with chronic back issues and Kevin McHale was playing on a broken foot, they , your pistons and you can Google it, modeled their game after the Celtics, they learned how to beat teams by learning from my Boston Celtics, there's video of Isaiah Thomas talking about it
Boston fixing to get beatt like a snare drum. Being from a place doesn't mean you know shit about basketball. This pistons team is Def up there if you ask anyone with any basketball iq.
One burning question I have - Detroit had a great run from 1986-1990, getting experience in the 86 playoffs, almost taking the Celts to the brink in 87, losing in 7 to the Lakers in 88, defeating a crippled Lakers in 89, and a strong Blazers team in 1990, four games to one. Oh, and they beat the Bulls 4-1, the 4-2, them 4-3 each season... So... HOW the Heck, in ONE year did the Pistons who, having an intact roster - and beat the somewhat younger Blazers the year before... get SWEPT by the Bulls in 1991 ECF?? What happened, roster wise, strategy-wise? Any ideas?
A) The Bulls were getting better and better. Like you pointed out, they pushed Detroit more and more with each season. B) Isiah underwent wrist surgery in the middle of that season, and he was never consistently the same after that. Early in the season, the Pistons kept up with the Bulls, both head-to-head and in the standings. But both slipped away after Isiah was hurt. C) Losing Mahorn to the '89 expansion draft. Mahorn didn't light up a stat sheet, but he was right up there with Laimbeer as one of the two most physical guys on a team that played VERY physical. Without him taking and dishing his share of the punishment, the team wasn't built to go the same distances they had the previous seasons.
The pistons were probably mentally and physically drained. After 4 years of going to the ECF takes a tole on the body. Not to mention the league started enforcing flagrant fouls. The Bulls and MJ matured and gotten better. MJ started trusting his teammates more was the biggest factor. Isiah was hurt in the middle of the season as well. The Pistons had a great run and I wish their run would be celebrated more. They were the epitome of what you call a TEAM.
I always think the Pistons toyed with the Bulls in the 89 & 90 playoffs, Pistons would spot the Bulls at least a game to make the series more interesting. Even in game 7 in 90 Eastern Conference Finals 1st Quarter Pistons were playing around, before getting to business. Even go back to 89 playoffs Eastern Conference Finals, Game 3, the Famous Jordan game winning shot, Pistons had no business blowing that game.
@@halfshot253 the pistons could score. They had 3 great guards. 2 of them in the hall of fame. They were mentally tough and very talented. They played no different than every team in the league, including Chicago
That's why Detroit was So lethal they could play any style u want wanta go low ok we can do that want my center Poppin out shooting 3's ok we can do that too..;)
The Detroit-Chicago series were always filled with so much animosity. In the end, Detroit was destroyed by they own animosity toward Chicago. They were not destroyed by Jordan. Isiah Thomas was not destroyed by Jordan but by his own mindless animosity towards Jordan. He still has got it today.
really, what planet??? Isiah sent MJ home 3 times to watch the playoffs from his sofa. Clearly the Pistons were not destroyed by Jordan, they beat him over and over and over again, its recorded. Playoff record MJ Bulls vs Isiah Pistons - 12 to 10, PISTONS. What you call animosity is actually competitiveness, passion, the NBA used to be a sport instead of a jump shooting contest
Their rivalry has history. Isaiah Thomas and Jordan had a gripe in one of the All-Star games and from that point they didn't like each other. Then when the Bulls finally beat the Pistons in the playoffs and the Pistons walked off the court and didn't show good sportsmanship that did it for Jordan. He had Isaiah Thomas blackballed from the 92' Dream Team.
@@marcusjones1432 It's much, much, much, much simpler than that. Isaiah is from Chicago like MJ, Isaiah sent MJ home 3 years ago to watch the playoffs from his sofa it is that simple. For your information the celtics walked off the court the year before not shaking the piston's hands, that's the way men played back in the day, players wouldn't give each other blowjobs and tweet about it and roll around with each other's jerseys on after playoff losses. The NBA used to be a competitive contact sport before it devolved into a 3 point shooting contest between tattooed over priced teenagers whom 30% of will be playing in the G league or in Europe within the next 4 years.
@@marcusjones1432no, thats unsubstantiated bullshyt. MJ and Isiah actually diaplayed remarkable All Star chemistry up until 1992. That freeze out is a myth. It has never been verified.
DETROITS 3yr Reighn on top the NBA Hurt a lot of feelings they was so Good Noone Could beat I remember vividly the 92 Snub now to me is a receipt an verification of just how Great they were just imagine beating everyone SO BAD THEY GOT ALL UP IN THERE FEELINGS TO THE POINT OF NOT LETTING HIM PLAY ON THERE TEAM ISNT THAT JUST CRAZY!?? GROWN AZZ MEN ALL IN THERE DELICATE LITTLE FEELINGS ABOUT BEING SENT HOME EARLY EVERY YEAR AWWW HOW CUTE MJ EYES ALL SALTY I LOVE IT!!! BAD BOYS FOR LIFE!!!!!😂
Zeke had an unhealthy shooting wrist that he came prematurely back from surgery with, a bad ankle that he rolled on Dee Brown’s foot in the series against Boston just before the ECF injured, and the Pistons were also in their 5th consecutive ECF where 2 championships were won so they were also exhausted (your guy Jordan had to take a break from the game altogether after consecutive season of extensive playoff appearances).
MJ NEVER GONNA BE THE GOAT BECAUSE THE SO CALLED GOAT PLAYERS ARE BIG BOTH WAYS ON AND OFF THE FLOOR AND TO MJ THE SECOND IS UNKNOWN SO O'NEAL ,BARKLEY, OLAJUWON , K.A.J, ARE JUST A COUPLE OF GUYS THAT ARE BIGGER THAN MR EMPTINESS AKA THE VOID AIR BUT TO EACH IT'S OWN SO !!!!!
Think 😂 he makein a reference to Detroit loseing in 87 when Zeke thru ball away to Bird Then in 88 Zeke broke his ankle game 6 an IF IS WASNT FOR THOSE 2 THINGS DETROIT WOULD OF PLAYED SHOWTIME LAKERS IN 87 FINALS WHICH I GUARANTEE GOES 6 OR 7 GAMES THEN DETROIT WOULD OF BEAT LA 88 INSTEAD OF REFS BAILING LA OUT AND BAD BOYS WOULD OF BEEN 3PEAT PISTONS AN HAD GONE TO 4 STRAIT FINALS POSSIBLY WINNING 4 IN A ROW DEFINITELY 3 ESPECIALLY IN MY BOOK THEY DID!! 3PEAT PISTONS 88 89 90!!!
@@halfshot253 nope. Because the NBA, Jordan and his agent David Faulk, and advertisers wanted to introduce the NBA headlined by MJ to the world. They knew Isiah had a reputation of really putting on a show in all star and charity games, and the Olympics would’ve been essentially just that and Zeke would’ve stolen the show or at least been just as exciting for international fans as MJ was and that would’ve derailed all of those plans….that’s also why Shaq wasn’t selected because he was also coming onto the scene with size and power that would’ve taken attention from MJ.
@@mobetta2092 wrong. Shaq was a rook in '92. He doesnt yet earn a spot among the all time greats. Zeke was a good player but lets face it, he would've ruined the team's chemistry. Like i said, half the team does not want to play with him. He had beef with almost everyone aside from Jordan
@@halfshot253 you must not remember or be aware of how much hype Shaq came into the league with. “Shaq attack” was the motto everywhere and his size 21 Reebok Show was displayed at shoe stores everywhere. Magic was lied to about Isiah spreading rumors in order to get him to agree with not wanting Isiah just as a shield for Jordan and his camp not wanting Isiah (Bird with a bad back was old and didn’t care…Pippen and Malone had no juice whatsoever…in that time they were like Anthony Davis and Karl Anthony-Towns saying they didn’t want a player on the team when only LeBron’s decision is truly who matters)
Isiah was an asshole; no one wants to play with an asshole. Jordan said it: If Isiah is on the team, I am not going. Isiah or Jordan? Organizers chose Jordan. No one wants to play with an asshole.
They might of won in 87 to if the Bird steals the ball didn't happen they was on there way!!! I say they'd of taken showtime to 6 or 7 games at least heck they went 7 wth the 86 CHAMPION CELTICS...HAD GAME WON GAME 6 1988 BAD BOYS WERE THE SHHHZNICK JUST HAD TO OVERCOME SOME SERIOUS OBSTACLES JUST LIKE THE REAL CITY OF DETROIT NEVER EASY!!
Who beat everyone on the dream team; Isaiah Thomas. The hate was in by David Stern, Dick Ebersol. Dick was head of NBC; they just signed a contract with the NBA. Detroit was going to three peat, but the nba needed Jordan to run the league Asap. The series in 91, was the worst official games ever. Detroit couldn’t buy a foul. The merger was too valuable to not have MJ not win again. The two starting guards should have been Isaiah and Jordan. Magic was retired, he didn’t even play the previous year. Dumars was the third option. The Dream Team was the set up for international crossover. That means more global money. It was set up for MJ; they couldn’t let Isaiah outshine MJ for nine years in a row. Last comment… Who beat everyone on the dream team… #11 Isaiah Thomas 🔥⛹🏾🏀
