Well, Seattle seems to be doing better with their new coach. A coach who simply does the little things like start Radmanovic.

Tay got aggressive in this game, often leading a fast break, and in one case seeing a lane and dunkiig on them. Tay got 13 boards to go with 21 points. His outside shot was not going, so he went inside. Wow, a 20-10 game from him. The guy he was matched up with, Lewis, got 27 points, and basically looked about unstoppable. Except when Delfino defended him. Once again, we see a lot more from Delfino on defense than many imagined, me included.

Ben did it the other way around, a 10-20 game, with 13 and 21. Lots of offensive rebound putbacks. Not too bad at the line. Just half, but thats still points.

Rip and CB added some scoring, and Sheed a couple of threes.

Our bench looked very sharp, that is, as long as Evans was off the floor. Arroyo got 5 assists, 5 rebounds, and 8 point in his 13 minutes. He ran the fast break real well in the 1st half, and in the 2nd half tore up Seattle's defense with his outstanding ability to dribble the ball. Quite a performance. Delfino had a fast break dunk, where their big just stood and watched. Heck, who wants to be posterized. Delfino also hit one outside shot, and did I mention, guarded Lewis just fine. Oh, and one nifty assist too.

Dyess did poorly shooting in the 1st half, but got it going a bit in the 2nd half. Arroyo set him up real nice for one jumper.

Evans? Gave up easy shot after easy shot. Fortunately, Seattle missed a lot of them, or Evans would be shipped out of here already. Count Allen as yet one more player Evans has no business trying to guard.

Our bench took pretty much a tie game and handed the starters an 8 point lead and the ball for the home stretch. Not a bad job at all.


The Pistons got 10 offensive rebounds in the 3rd quarter to one for Seattle. Ben and I think Dyess got some of those. Nobody on Seattle could score on Ben. Typical. One outstanding block.

Last subject. Some more progress on the bench tonight. Why Evans is still playing I don't know. But the rest of the bench is looking good. In both halves, Evans came out first, but was also the first bench player out. In the 2nd half, he came out pretty quick, giving the rest of the bench players time to really shine. I hope that soon we can see out bench perform for a few games in a row without Evans in the game at all.

Still no Darko. Still got a lot of games this season yet to get him involved. But if he does not play for much longer, its going to be a case of starting from scratch for him again. If Evans did not play in this game, there would have been plenty of room to give Darko some time. Just my opinion. Sound harsh, oh well, its my opinion regardless.

There is another game tomorro night, so having the bench play some decent minutes tonight was quite important. Lets see what we got left in the tank tomorro. I suspect, as this is a payback game, we will have a little more energy than usual.