Ineffective is the word that comes to mind.

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Another crap game. Everyone will run around pointing fingers, Sheed, Mo, Flip whatever.

Bottom line, the Pistons as a whole did not bring a great effort, the only exception is perhaps Rip and that cost them down the stretch when they got nailed on a lot of BS calls. If they were up by 10 to start the 4th, they may have weathered it. Instead, they kept handing Cleveland an opportunity to win the game from the get go, and finally, the Cavs figured out that the game was there for the taking.

The bench has totally disappeared. Unleash the hounds. They need a man hunt for Hunter, Delk and Evans.

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Sarcasm right? Even if you look at the box score he was 0-2, with 1 TO, and a foul. If you watched the game, he had one of the most embarrassing sequences I've seen from a Piston in a long time. He gets the ball in his favorite spot, goes to shoot the 3, but Lebron closes in on him. Evans then looks to pass, can't find anyone, puts the ball on the floor, loses his dribble, manages to get it back, shot clock winding down, shoots, and is flat out rejected.

And then things get worse. Evans (and Flip for even putting him on Lebron) single handedly let Cleveland back in the game. Worst coaching job, ever.

I mean serious what was Flip's thought process. I need somebody to guard Lebron while Tay rests, Delfino has proven he can guard Lebron, but Evans can hit that wide open jumper when no one covers him. That's it, Evans.

Wake up Flip, this is the playoffs, not counting garbage time, Evans aint getting anymore wide open jumpers.

Delk played 4 minutes. He is hardly at fault. The thing with Delk is when he is on he can't be stopped but when he is off you might as well not play him at all.

Well, you do make my point. He was off, and hence, he only had 4 minutes to give. I'd call that grounds for an APB.

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No, he hasn't. He might be able to, but I don't remember Delfino having any good defensive sequence on James yet.

Tayshaun Prince is going to have to suck it up, stop playing so soft, and play 45+ minutes a night. And when he isn't guarding James, Rip Hamilton or Lindsey Hunter should be.

And I was only being partially sarcastic. This was not an unusual performance from Evans.

If he only played 4 minutes then he gets no blame for this loss. Are big guys didn't step up til it was too late.

Its over. I expect us to win game 4. We don't want to let the Cavs back into this series.

Lebron played every minute and seemed quite spry at the end. So any "tired" excuses should be ignored by the Pistons players.

My point is that the bench is missing. If they were effective in Game 2, they might have got more run in game 3. Flip is gunna pull the plug on the bench if they dont come in and produce.

No doubt. I get so sick of everyone complaining about minutes when Iverson, LeBron, Arenas, Marion and Kobe play mondo minutes regularly.

If anyone is tired after a 4 day layoff, they have mononucleosis.

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Well, Flip can either pull the plug outright or try some different substitution patterns/combinations. I hate to compliment Arroyo, but occasionally he brought some fire to this team with his energy in last year's playoffs. Nobody like that on the current team has emerged. This team is so business-like out there that sometimes it needs a fire lit under its azz. I feel bad for Delfino. I think the guy made some strides this year and he gets buried under a whole lotta horse-MO-nure.