Alright, good win tonight. The second quarter was mostly brutal, with the bench playing poorly and everyone forcing stupid jumpers. Somehow the Nets let them stay in it, though, and the Pistons went on a nice run to end the half with Rip getting it going off some curls and screens. Then the third quarter was a breakout, with everything working: CB driving to the hole, Dice hitting Js, Rip staying hot, and strong D forcing bad shots by the hapless Nets.

Pistons started the 4th quarter up 14, and in a very welcome development, Stuckey played almost the entire period as CB sat down. He forced one or two plays but showed lots of promising signs: a tough basket on a double clutch finish at the rim, a couple of jumpers, a few nice passes, and some impact plays on D at the perimeter. And he did a lot of it against the Nets' first unit, as Lawrence Frank left his starters out there until only 2 minutes were left, despite the fact that they could never get the lead under double digits. JMax made up for what had been a mostly unproductive game (no rebounds in his first 18 minutes) down the stretch by assaulting the rim on a devastating throwdown and crashing the boards a few times.