Jerry Stackhouse Retiring

[HammerDown]

Jerry Stackhouse To Retire: Hoops Rumors

Has some pretty interesting plans for retirement.

 

[Robotech]

I thought he retired 5 years ago.

 

[ugafan6612]

He played for ATL last year. It was so weird seeing a 40 yr old running around on the court

 

[TexasMan]

I thought he retired 5 years ago.

Same.

Last I remembered he was on the Mavericks.

 

[HammerDown]

I think it said he's 38 and in great shape and delivered some big games earlier this year. Someone would sign him to mentor and be a force in the locker room. That said, North Carolina basketball is easily my 3rd most-hated in college basketball behind Duke (no close second) and Kentucky.

 

[OregonDucks]

I am with everyone else, thought he retired long ago.

 

[HammerDown]

 

[shitsho]

I thought he retired last year.

 

[HurricaneDij39]

The reason he doesn't get the credit he deserves is because he spent his prime years playing for the forgotten Teal Pistons.

 

[bamabear82]

I remember that guy.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

He's so damned old that he, Kevin Garnett and Steve Nash all ought to be living in a senior citizens retirement home by now

 

[logic]

The reason he doesn't get the credit he deserves is because he spent his prime years playing for the forgotten Teal Pistons.

If he were as great as you seem to think he was the teal Pistons would not be (thankfully) forgotten.

He was a very good player, but not avi worthy Dij--especially in the aweful teal.

 

[HurricaneDij39]

If he were as great as you seem to think he was the teal Pistons would not be (thankfully) forgotten.

He was a very good player, but not avi worthy Dij--especially in the aweful teal.

Detroit's current logo looks kind of pink. Just saying.

Likewise from the cloth I'm cut from, I don't consider LeBron James avi worthy at this point in his career. Loyalty is in my blood.

Back in my childhood days (I'm 25 now) and being from the Great Lakes region, I used to admire all the teams in this area - The Bulls, Pacers, Bucks, and Pistons.

You clowns up in Michigan blame the colors of your uniforms for why your team sucked during those years when it was really awful roster management.

Stack's supporting cast literally made LeBron's Cavs look like Hall-of-Famers. After the retirements of Dumars and Dele in 1999, Detroit's once-vaunted defense suffered, and Hill and Stackhouse were forced to carry the team by themselves with practically no supporting cast during the 1999-2000 season.

Miami Heat at Detroit Pistons Box Score, April 29, 2000 | Basketball-Reference.com

After Grant Hill decided to leave for Orlando (and probably rightfully so after the Detroit media gave him hell during his ankle injury), newly-hired GM Dumars focused on defense. In his two years in Detroit after Hill left, Stack was practically the entire offense, and his FG percentage suffered to the point of no return. But give the guy credit, he kept attacking even when he couldn't buy a shot from the perimeter on some nights.

The Pistons didn't really upgrade their offense until after Stackhouse was traded. They signed Billups that same summer and eventually traded for that thug Rasheed.

Stack's time in Dallas showed he wasn't a ballhog like the people in his Detroit days made him out to be. Just because a guy shoots a lot doesn't make him a ballhog.

 

[logic]

Detroit's current logo looks kind of pink. Just saying.

Likewise from the cloth I'm cut from, I don't consider LeBron James avi worthy at this point in his career. Loyalty is in my blood.

Back in my childhood days (I'm 25 now) and being from the Great Lakes region, I used to admire all the teams in this area - The Bulls, Pacers, Bucks, and Pistons.

You clowns up in Michigan blame the colors of your uniforms for why your team sucked during those years when it was really awful roster management.

Stack's supporting cast literally made LeBron's Cavs look like Hall-of-Famers. After the retirements of Dumars and Dele in 1999, Detroit's once-vaunted defense suffered, and Hill and Stackhouse were forced to carry the team by themselves with practically no supporting cast during the 1999-2000 season.

Miami Heat at Detroit Pistons Box Score, April 29, 2000 | Basketball-Reference.com

After Grant Hill decided to leave for Orlando (and probably rightfully so after the Detroit media gave him hell during his ankle injury), newly-hired GM Dumars focused on defense. In his two years in Detroit after Hill left, Stack was practically the entire offense, and his FG percentage suffered to the point of no return. But give the guy credit, he kept attacking even when he couldn't buy a shot from the perimeter on some nights.

The Pistons didn't really upgrade their offense until after Stackhouse was traded. They signed Billups that same summer and eventually traded for that thug Rasheed.

Stack's time in Dallas showed he wasn't a ballhog like the people in his Detroit days made him out to be. Just because a guy shoots a lot doesn't make him a ballhog.

Dude, Detroit's logo is red, white, and blue. Nothing pink about it (not that there is anything wrong with that). The fact that you think that red, white, and blue is pink and prefer teal says more about you than the Pistons or their fans.

No one in Michigan blames the teal for the teams performance. It was just another sign of the bad decisions being made by management at the time. Just because we derisively call it the teal era doesn't mean we think the ugly unis caused the problem, it is just a shorthand way to refer graphically to a stretch of poor management.

I support your loyalty, but maybe you should choose who to be loyal to with more care. You say LeBron, who is clearly playing the best ball in the league right now, is not avi worthy, but Stackhouse, who never was the best in the league, is---your criterion on who to choose loyalty to leaves me scratching my head.

And I hope you remember your last line of that post the next time you go on an anti-Kobe rant.

 

[Big Red Slugs]

Is Jerry Stackhouse's decision to retire really that big a deal?

 

[HurricaneDij39]

Is Jerry Stackhouse's decision to retire really that big a deal?

At least it's not another Kobe soap opera. Believe it or not, there are some casual fans out there that see this as a bigger story than Kobe suing his mother...

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Is Jerry Stackhouse's decision to retire really that big a deal?

None whatsoever - He was role player at the best and not that relevent and I have seen horses smarter then him

 

[HurricaneDij39]

logic,

No one is going to dispute that LeBron James has more physical gifts than Jerry Stackhouse. I will say that Stackhouse is more of a natural basketball player, though. While LeBron's game is all too-media driven. You would know because I remember you were one of his biggest haters back on CBS when he was with Cleveland. And of course like most others, you think you're being hip and cool by flipping sides and becoming one of his supporters once he joined Miami.
At least I have an excuse for flipping sides now that I know he's a traitor.

For the record, I don't make anti-Kobe rants anymore. I will say this, though - He was a big-time ballhog when he was younger. Stack never had a post presence like Shaq on his team. Detroit's second-leading scorer the year after Grant Hill left was Chucky Atkins or someone crazy like that and Jerry made something out of him in their two years together as backcourt mates.

Bottom line is that it's easy to bandwagon the best players. I simply hate being ordinary.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Why is it that anytime a player leaves a team such as Lebron or Stackhouse, y'all have to call him a traitor? That is really so stupid. No one called Shaq Oneal a traitor when he left Los Angeles and he demande that trade. Each player is an employee and he gets paid for his job. If an employee is unhappy with his current employment, then he leaves the company he is working for and finds employment somewhere else. I suppose at 25 years old you're not old enough to understand that - but that is business.

 

[HurricaneDij39]

Why is it that anytime a player leaves a team such as Lebron or Stackhouse, y'all have to call him a traitor? That is really so stupid. No one called Shaq Oneal a traitor when he left Los Angeles and he demande that trade. Each player is an employee and he gets paid for his job. If an employee is unhappy with his current employment, then he leaves the company he is working for and finds employment somewhere else. I suppose at 25 years old you're not old enough to understand that - but that is business.

If you're unhappy with your current employment - Keep your mouth shut until your contract is up, especially if you're making that kind of money. Don't make a circus out of it. The rest of us couldn't care less about your employment status.

And TLF, you seriously would have kept Shaq and Kobe together even though it was clear that couldn't co-exist as a team any longer? One of them had to go, and you made the right decision to keep the young guy.

And for the record, Stackhouse ain't a traitor. He loved Michigan and didn't want to leave. He even had a home custom-made for his family there. Dumars simply elected to move him after a poor shooting performance against the Celtics and with one year left on his contract.