This game was equal parts frustrating and enjoyable. All in all this one doesn't bother me too much. (Lie!) Flip was better than the bench in this one. Maybe that's not saying a lot, but it should be noted that he did not shrink the rotation in the second half.

A real rough start with no apparent answer other that Rip shoots a J, CB shoots a J, Dyess shoots a J, Sheed shoots a J followed by Tay shooting a J. Probably an even better opportunity to give the starters a quick blow to get settled than last night. They did not have enough gas to continually overcome their poor start. It had to be at least halfway through the first before CB took a shot he was trying to hit versus getting fouled.

Maxey biggest contribution might have been to BOS when he missed a dunk early on. It was his only shot.

Dixon was close to being real helpful. A hair off of everything.

Did anyone else see the graphic showing that Tay shot 18% in the first 2 games against BOS? He blew that out of the water with a 3-8 tonight. Good rebounds though.

Some atrocious O in this one. Siamese twins have better spacing than the Pistons did tonight. Man they set horrible screens. They got 0 from them.

BOS wasn't trapping CB on screen rolls/pops and DET still scored 78 points. How do you spell genius?

I thought DET's D looked pretty good for the most part.

At least they showed some pride and picked up some T's, but alas BOS equaled if not surpassed them there.

How much easier would the game have been if DET didn't miss all those free throws to start the game?

I am pretty sure that by Tommy Heinson's account every basket DET scored was the result of luck.