Some people may not want to hear this, but I thought I would point out one thing Evans did that completely baffled me. He was guarding a guard out on the left baseline, and inexplicably just left the guy. The guy nailed a shot, uncontested. Just what did Evans think he was doing on that play? Now, I have seen a guy like Ben Wallace back off from a guard figuring to position for the rebound instead, but look, we are talking about Mo Evans here, not a center. He had no business curling into the paint as his guy went to the corner. Anybody else see this and have any theories on why Mo did this? (Besides simple incompetence)

I like Delfino, but I also think the Pistons should explore other possibilities for backup small forward minutes. Even using Amir Johnson some. Maxiell is a guy I'd like to see out there, recomprising Corliss' old role as a dominant small forward.

Here is the bench I envision at the moment: Arroyo, Delfino, (Maxiell and Johnson sharing minutes at backup small forward), Dyess, Darko.

Both Maxiell or Johnson would give us better rebounding vs. Evans. (Not that Evans has not been doing good on offensive rebounding.) Amir Johnson is much more polished a basketball player, despite his young age, vs. Evans, from what I can see. At least in the summer league, what I saw were snap decisions from Amir Johnson and consistently good decisions. The guy had an 8-9 game where he simply did not take bad shots. (Except he did one time test his range a bit and missed. All his inside shots he nailed. He knew instantly when to shoot, when to pass. Impressed the heck out of me.)

Maxiell would give us less perimeter D than Evans, but you know what, not that much less. Sure, you put a shooting guard at small forward and Maxiell is going to have to leave the perimeter D to someone else. But he is not that slow, and has great hops with timing and instincts about when to stay home and when to go up. For absolute sure he is going to provide more interior D than Evans. Maxiell is a swat machine, and has great strength. On ball handling, not much there. But since he can post up, it does not matter. He would be a good, consistent offensive weopon for us just from his postup game, freeing up the perimeter just by that.