Thanks for the alert microscoe...I ignored the site and chat until I had watched the game in it's entirety.... it was a nail biter to say the least and for while it apppeared that I would I have to face a couple of local Laker fans (like my mother in law) with my tail between my legs

Good win and lot of positive comments already posted so I will state obvious first. What if we had actually lost this game? Believe me we were heading that way as once again we let a team hang around that was supposedly limping across country into the palace to almost beat our completely healthy team (save Rip). Tay's three ball avoided an almost certain defeat and left the local Laker announcers speechless.

That 17 point lead disappeared when Sheed missed a 3 ball from the left and the Lakers rolled off a 15-5 run to close out the qtr and trail only by 5 at the half. All of the points off TO went for not as the Pistons slowed it down at the end and continued their funky play with the starters into the third qtr and allowed the Lakers to take the lead and quiet the Piston faithful.


THANK GOODNESS for our bench in the second half. (and beginning of the 2nd qtr). We would have lost this game if Flip had chose to go with Max and Hayes only. Excellent idea by Flip to leave Stuckey in there for extended minutes in the 4th, because CB was actually holding the ball to long in that 3rd. I loved Sheeds aggressive defense in the second Qtr, but he played with reckless abandon tossing up to many 3 balls in the second half.

I know our starters are our bread and butter, but we could have lost this game on the three techs on CB, Rip and Dice. The refs were bad though. They must have thought this was the TNT televised game . Lakers with 22 FTA in the first half to the Pistons 2?? It was almost even in the second half, but the Pistons could have exploited it more if they gone to the hoop in that third as they got in the bonus with 8 mins left and didn't capitalize on it.

Like I said before the game, we would need the our youth to win this game, because their guys would try to outhustled our "old me" and Kobe and his band of meery men almost did.

Just wanted give the obligatory negative spend that would been spewed out if we had loss this one...I can sleep ezy tonight...thanks Tay....ok you too Flip....