Source: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090223/SPORTS0102/ ********************************************************************* Rock bottom?: Pistons lose 6th straight; now at .500 Monday, February 23, 2009 / Ted Kulfan / The Detroit News ********************************************************************* CLEVELAND -- The Pistons are much like the economy these days. Where exactly is the low point? How bad can it get? With the economy, no one really knows where's bottom. But with the Pistons, it'll be difficult to get much lower than Sunday's 99-78 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. They never were in the game. "We stunk the gym out," Allen Iverson said. "We usually play together on the road, but we just acted like strangers out there. We didn't get it done." The loss extended the Pistons losing streak to a season-high six games. They also officially became a .500 team, at 27-27. It has gotten bad, no question about it. "I didn't anticipate starting a trip like that, it's disappointing," coach Michael Curry said. "We talked about having trust on the court (and ended up) playing like we didn't like each other or we're strangers. "It's disappointing." Curry also wasn't pleased with the effort. "Was the effort satisfactory? No," Curry said. Iverson has noticed the Pistons slacking off a work ethic that used to be the standard for the rest of the league. "I know one thing, we have to play harder than the teams we've been playing against, that's for sure," Iverson said. "Teams are playing harder than us. "Usually this team, of all the teams I played against in my career, this team played the hardest. That's the surprising thing for me. Teams are outplaying us. When it comes to playing hard, that's something you can always do." Since a high-water mark of 21-11, after defeating the Los Angeles Clippers on Jan. 4, the Pistons have gone 6-16. And the scary part is, considering this was only the start of a brutal five-game road trip, it could get much worse. "How much more open do the eyes have to be?" Curry said. "You have to learn from games like this. "It's disappointing we haven't learned from this and we haven't gotten better from this. You have to go out there and get it done." Iverson led the Pistons with 14 points (6-for-16 shooting), Walter Herrmann scored 13, and Richard Hamilton and Jason Maxiell 11 off the bench. The Pistons shot 37 percent (32-of-86) from the field. Delonte West, returning to the Cleveland lineup after missing more than a month with a wrist injury, led the Cavaliers (43-11) with 25 points. LeBron James had 20 points and nine assists, and Zydrunas Ilgauskas 16 points and eight rebounds. "They made a run early and we didn't get out of the gates for whatever reason," Hamilton said. "When they had a 10-point lead they took it 20 and when they had it at 20, they took it to 30." ********************************************************************* -- Only the strong survive- Iverson ⊕ ═█┘ ⊕ ●╱ 　　　 Ｗ ● ●︵ ● ●)) ３╯ <３\ /３⊕ ／３﹚ ３ \\ />⊕ >/ ⊕ ╲> >> ========= http://www.wretch.cc/blog/AWEI3 ========= --

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