A sixth blowout win in 7 games. Our rotation has set into a pretty regular pattern. Hunter backs up Billups, with Flip only playing in games with large leads in the 4th. Hayes backs up Tay. Maxiell backs up both Sheed and Dyess with Mohammed only playing in the 4th with big leads. Afflalo backs up Rip in the first half. In a close game, Prince plays some shooting guard in the 2nd half.


Amir only gets garbage time. Samb was just sent to the D-League. Dupree does not dress. Blaha says in the post game show that Stuckey will be in the regular rotation after the all-star break.


Hot shooting by Rip and Dyess gave us a double digit lead in the first half. The lead dipped to 6 early in the 3rd quarter with Charlotte choosing to go small. But going small backfired on them as Sheed started getting a bunch of offensive rebounds and we pumped the lead back up to 16 to end the 3rd. (It was 19 just before Hermann hit a quarter ending triple for Charlotte.)


JMAX hit a couple of jumpers, one a quarter ending 20 footer, made a couple of fast break scores, and shot 3 for 4 from the line to go with his 7 rebounds and 2 blocks.


Amir played garbage time, and actually was allowed to shoot the ball one time. He got the ball well out on the left, got past his man toward the middle, changed directions and went inside a 2nd defender to lay it in pretty much uncontested by that time. Thats some good ball handling right there.


Hayes hit a couple of shots, and gathered in several rebounds.
Gerald Wallace was supposedly going to be a problem for Dyess, but the guy only scored 3 points. Matt Carroll, that Piston killer from last year, was shutout. We played some pretty solid D in all.


Hunter did not do much. Flip Murray had some assists and hit a shot or two. This was pretty much garbage time as Billups started the 4th quarter and got the lead up a bit before Murray entered the game. The points were still important as they kept the starters rested.


Afflalo shot maybe once in the 1st half. In garbage time, he made two drives in (one on a fast break) and got 5 points total from that.
Tay made a shot to start the game, but after that he just did not have it. His drives in just came short of scoring and his outside shooting has left him for the moment.


Sheed hit about 3 triples to go with his good rebounding effort. Rip had 3 triples as well. Billups hit some outside shots and did a lot of damage taking it aggressively to the hoop.


Mohammed did play and did very little. He did hit a longer outside shot.


GO PISTONS!!!!!



Oh, and it was mentioned that Charlotte got zero paint points and zero fast break points in the first half. Hard to believe. I'll pay more attention to this when I rewatch the game.