By STEVE ST. GERMAIN

Marketing Director

Pistons fans, hang on tight. This might be a bumpy ride. It’s the long journey to the middle of the bracket that makes something such as earning a championship (or for the Lions making the playoffs) so sweet. What concerns me most about this basketball team is their inconsistency. A roster like ours with Hamilton, Wallace, Stuckey, and Iverson on it, should be performing at a high level for all 48 minutes every night, which is not always happening.

Between Rasheed’s all too common technical fouls, Iverson’s injuries and a lackluster effort from week-to-week, the Detroit Pistons are slowly burying their own playoff hopes. Many teams don’t make the NBA playoff’s each year, 14 to be exact.But my point is that Detroit really needs to step things up and improve their record in the next two months if they hope to make something happen in the postseason.