first game i've been to in a long time...was pretty fun. decent crowd and max brought the house down time after time. i'm liking that rip is doing the alley-oop play he used to do with ben. his drunk in traffic after the amir johnson miss was much more impressive in person than what i've seen on the highlights.

the offense stagnated when lindsey entered the game...a lot of dribbling in the corner and standing around until 5 seconds left on the shot clock. it looked like stuckey was deferring to hunter as well, but i'd like to see stuckey playing PG if both of them are in the game at the same time. to lindsey's credit he was fantastic on defense and the traps worked well.

every time jarvis jacked up a shot i yelled 'another horrible miss!' and sure enough, it missed. i liked how afflalo played some backup 3, and this might work well in the playoffs. if jarvis is on fire, cool, but if not...i mean he gets beat so easily by a quick fake and drive that he has to foul. even though afflalo is shorter that would be happening much less.

but either way the pistons really bothered butler and jamison and didn't allow easy shots which was great. stuckey wasn't as aggressive as we've seen, but after 2 impressive drives (and actual finishes, woot) they were playing for it, and he racked up 6 assists which shows maturity.