Well looks like the Pistons were to busy thinking about Friday's Spurs and they took an up and coming team like the Sixers for granted. Spurs were also thinking about Pistons too as they get blown out by the Hornets by 25.

Pistons actually out shot the Sixers 46% to 41% but missed ten FT's and had 14 TO's and that's what did the Pistons in. Mcdyess was able to break out of his shooting slump from the field by playing closer to the rim, but it backfired as he was only 6-12 from the FT line. He is still playing to many minutes IMO (33 tonight) and he came up short with two blown bunnies in the last 2 minutes as maybe he should not have been in there.

After getting back in the game and holding the Sixers to 18 points in the third, the Pistons almost duplcated the Celtic game by laying an egg in the 4th and only scoring 15 themselves. As I mentioned in chat, the Sixer run seem to be predicated when Dixon entered the game late in the third and played into the 4th. While Dixon was in there, the sixers went on a 13-4 run to take the lead for good and the starters struggled even with him back on the bench with missed opportunities in the 4th. The refs and the sixers gave us plenty of chances to win this game but...

Meaningless stat of the night...in the two previous games, sixers only score 78 points....if we had held them to that tonight, then our 82 points would have been enough....but nope, our team once again made two scrubs Reggie Evans and Rodney Carney all pros for one night!! Carney outscored our whole bench by himself 16-14...oh yeah the bench were no shows too along with RIP

Do we want to face a defensive minded team in the first round?? The Sixers are # 6 in the league you know.....