Share Your Favorite Chuck Daly Memory

by erivera7 on May 9, 2009 4:31 PM EDT in Off-Day Open Thread

The title is self-explanatory but I'll go ahead and flesh out the purpose of this post. If you have a Chuck Daly memory, whether it pertains his time with the Detroit Pistons, the New Jersey Nets, the Orlando Magic, the 1992 USA men's national basketball team a.k.a. the Dream Team, etc. ... feel free to share your thoughts.

Thanks.

Remembering Chuck Daly:

There's certainly more links and stories out there. These are just a handful of them.

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.. I always marveled at the Jordan Rules.

It was such an intricate defensive system. If you check out some of the YouTube videos out there that flesh out what the defensive principles were for the Jordan Rules, it’s amazing how detailed the strategy was .. and in the end, it helped fuel the Pistons past the Bulls multiple times in the playoffs before his Airness finally was able to break the system with teamwork. I have so many more memories but this one’s a start ..

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by erivera7 on May 9, 2009 4:51 PM EDT reply actions

my favourite memory about chuck

is this one,absolutely.
that was the time we started to watch nba as the kids,and show off in front of each other with our “knowledge”. we only heard of few players back then(it was war here in bosnia,after all),and i was the only one to know one coach’s name.
it was Chuck Daly.

by Dzogi on May 9, 2009 5:03 PM EDT reply actions

Word.

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by erivera7 on May 9, 2009 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions

KD points out it was Daly who freed Darrell:

That’s his legacy. The legacy that told him to move Penny Hardaway — “the next Magic Johnson” — out of the point guard slot, so that a former college punter and minor league veteran could handle the ball. The result of that? The Magic go from a .500 team to one winning nearly 2/3rds of their games, and Darrell Armstrong(notes) (the former punter) goes from the 12th man to one of the NBA’s best point guards.

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by Evan Dunlap on May 9, 2009 7:26 PM EDT reply actions

Yup. I remember that move ..

.. Darrell Armstrong exploded in 1999.

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by erivera7 on May 9, 2009 8:16 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah,he was huge.

splittin’ firs place on ma favourites magic players with anderson and outlaw…

by Dzogi on May 10, 2009 6:20 AM EDT up reply actions

Coach Daly deserves all the respect and accolades

…for coaching the Pistons to two world championships and the outstanding job he did with the Dream Team.

I always thought the Pistons were an excessively dirty team during Daly’s tenure (Laimbeer, Rodman and Mahorn being the main culprits), but I have to admit they were an awesome defensive team during that time thanks to Daly, and Daly got the most out of their talent.

After being eliminated in the playoffs by Detroit 3 straight seasons, Michael Jordan and the Bulls finally beat the Pistons in a resounding 4 game sweep in the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals.

It’s a credit to Daly’s coaching that they were able to beat Jordan and the Bulls for so long prior to that.

by Mike from Illinois on May 10, 2009 4:47 AM EDT reply actions

No doubt.

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by erivera7 on May 10, 2009 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions

My favorite memory was....

when Chuck left Detroit for the Nets Rodman protested and didn’t want to play. Chuck has a private sitdown with Rodman and set him straight. Chuck was the Man.

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by Surfdog on May 10, 2009 2:37 PM EDT reply actions