I particularly looked at Evans defense. What I find is that he more often was guarding Greene vs. Ricky Davis. Thats right, Evans was put on their absolute lowest scoring threat. When Evans did guard Davis, Davis continually lost Evans, but either got stopped from doing damage by another Piston, chose not to shoot, or someone missing free throws. Evans did manage to bother a shot by Davis once. Thats about it for Evans good defensive game. And no, he really could not stay with Greene either.

Laugh of the day. I saw someone post a trade involving sending Evans to Memphis and us getting Battier. This poster suggested Evans could replace Battier as a defensive minded small forward. That poster clearly is just ignoring completely the fact that the experiment of using Evans at small forward is long over. No height at all for the job. Yes, Evans played small forward a bit for us a couple of games back, but that was against an underhanded team forced to play 4 guards.

That drive by Delfino was better than it first appeared. That should have been two points for us. Dyess was right there to put the ball back in, but got hip checked out of the play, no call. I don't even think that was a shot at all. (The more I look at it, the more I see Delfino never really shot the ball at all, just flipped it off the glass toward Evans.) Now the next question is why did Delfino not try a little harder to just put that shot in himself? There was a lot of pressure against that shot.

Anyone notice that after Delfino hit that shot to put us up 11, neither side was scoring any for the next several minutes? Boston was going inside to their bigs for the most part, and Dyess for one was shutting them down. Now, I say Boston was going into their bigs, but that was not really what they wanted. They wanted to get the ball to Pierce a few times, but Delfino was keeping himself draped all over Pierce, playing ball denial defense. Us, we probably should have scored a couple of times save some non-calls by the officials. (That Delfino play and the Sheed triple try where he gets hit on the arm.) Anyway, that triple of Delfino's ended up being pretty big.

That 18 point run by Sheed took place mostly in the last few minutes of the quarter, much of it with Delfino and Dyess in with the starters. Sheed's last two triples were in the last 40 seconds of the quarter for instance. For the game, the only runs going on for us were with Delfino in the game.