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...schedule remaining were just three games short of last season's victory total. It was also the worst of times. Pistons players were at Coach Herb Brown's throat, and at one point a player actually attacked him. Locker-room arguments were the norm; the bench had become a place to sulk, not sit. Detroit players surely lead the league in fines and angry demands to be traded somewhere, anywhere...
...year, and still another was the fourth player chosen in the college draft last spring. Since the N.B.A. remains old-fashioned when it conies to a team having more than five players on the floor at once, the stars have been putting in more than their fair share of bench time. With six-figure salaries-and equally large egos-to protect, they have become increasingly obstreperous...
...trade me" threats. Porter, who led the N.B.A. in assists two years ago, was unhappy over losing his starting slot to Eric Money. To show his displeasure, he had begun standing off to one side, staring at the rafters and pointedly ignoring Brown during time-outs. On the bench, he also plunked himself down as far away from Brown as possible. Ford, during one nationally televised game, angrily flung his arm toward Brown when the coach sent in a replacement. Simpson, an All Star at Denver before he was traded during the offseason, could not adjust to his "sixth...
...time the Christmas holidays rolled around, the team had become the Detroit Scrooges. On Christmas Eve, Brown fined Porter for stalking to his spot at the far end of the bench when he was removed from a game. On Dec. 30, Money was confined to the locker room during the second half of a game against Denver and fined after a heated argument with Brown disrupted a half-time strategy session. Porter, who has played well when in the lineup, went into 1977 boiling. Said he: "I've been playing the game for five years...
Coach Carole Kleinfelder put her charges in a man-to-man defense at the beginning of the game but the hustle that keys that kind of defense just was not there. Rather than admit failure and set up in a zone, Kleinfelder pulled the starters and banked on her bench to provide the spark...