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The most popular member of the Detroit Pistons might be the team's first-year coach Stan Van Gundy. A fan created Wednesday a Kickstarter campaign so he can make shirts with SVG and the team's new rally cry.

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THURSDAY UPDATE: The T-shirt campaign created by a Pistons fan in Chicago has been moved to a website called teespring.com. The shirts are $20 each.

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DETROIT, MI -- The new rally cry for the Detroit Pistons and their increasingly optimistic fans is the focus of a Kickstarter campaign created to raise $7,500 so commemorative t-shirts can be made.

Pistons fan Paul Savich, a Chicago resident, informed MLive.com via Twitter that he started the campaign Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the Pistons beat the defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs 105-104 for their sixth straight win.

A pledge of $25 or more for Savich's Kickstarter campaign will get you a 100 percent cotton grey shirt with Van Gundy's head on it and the passionate instructions he shared with players during crunchtime.

More on the campaign, which ends 2:12 p.m. Feb. 6, and how to make a donation:

Tuesday night's Pistons-Spurs game in San Antoniop was a nail-biter and sealed with a length of the floor Brandon Jennings driving layup and defensive stop with 0.1 left on the clock. The stop came after Pistons first-year coach Stan Van Gundy called a timeout and gave colorful guidance.

Van Gundy's defensive instructions during the timeout: "Just form a (bleepin') wall!"

You can watch Van Gundy give his instructions and unexpectedly entertain basketball fans across the country in the Vine video below.

WARNING: As you can expect, there's one cuss word in the brief footage.

Van Gundy told reporters Wednesday night in Dallas before a game against the Mavericks that he felt bad about having an "f-bomb" end up on a TV broadcast.

But Van Gundy sounds like he's enjoying the newfound enthusiasm and interest surrounding his team and coaching style.

"It's a one-tenth-of-a-second-to-go play, where it would take a miracle anyway, and all of a sudden, that's the deal," Van Gundy said. "But who knows? If they're having fun with it, it's great. Because it's been tough for our fans this year. So if they're finding something to have fun with, I'm all for it."

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