| game report
No legs. But we won, the 7th of 8 in a horrendous stretch of game. Amazing. 20-3. Amazing. Sheed hit three triples. And Tay was hitting. And Rip was bouncing up off the floor and scoring some more. Hitting his free throws. Tonight, we got nothing at all from Dyess. Nothing at all from Davis either, not even a simple rebound off a missed free throw. But at least they kept the starters off their feet for just a little bit. Ben got a good rest from Dyess and Davis in that 2nd half.
I will note, we had a bit of a lead that went bye bye with Evans on the floor in the 4th. And he did a lot of bad stuff. I again will let anyone else who cares to point out this stuff.
The bench did not do all that bad. Arroyo did lead us back into the game there in the 2nd quarter, taking a deficit and handing the starters back a tie game. I like seeing Arroyo working on stretching out his range. Remember, when he shoots a lot of 3's, he is a 33% shooter from there. Not that bad. Arroyo so far this year is not taking that many shots.
All this was not just a bad game by the Pistons front line. Pryzbilla was doing very well. Patterson was showing he indeed can score if asked to. And Randolf was hitting some pretty crazy shots.
Got to give it up to Ben again on his free throw shooting. It would have been a lot harder to win this one without Ben doing a decent job at the line.
That first half saw us just turn the ball over 5 times. Another good job by our point guards. The one turn by Arroyo was a good attempt to feed Sheed in the post. Nothing wrong with that. You got to expect some post feeds to go bad. Other Piston players had some simple mental mistakes in passing the ball. Big difference. But still, as a team we did not turn the ball over that much.
Obviously, we had a lot of mismatches tonight, and we got to line from that over and over. And we made our free throws. Our overall talent simply won out, despite getting big time outplayed in the paint.
Flip is seriously got in for Darko or something. Serious foul trouble. Our starters playing most of the 1st half and still no Darko. Hey, we won. We are doing great. Lots of time to start playing Darko again. If Flip is copping an attitude on Darko, that is his mistake. We are not going to win a 7 game series without Darko playing in our rotation if we are facing Shaq or Duncan. People who like Davis, remember this. He still has yet to score a bucket for us. He can't even bother Shaq the least bit, and he is too slow to put on Duncan. Meanwhile, Ben nor Sheed can guard Shaq, and foul trouble is inevitable against Duncan. Every game Darko sits, he is going to get more rusty. Time to get Darko in there to build his game. For the sake of the Pistons, not Darko. |