Well after 24 hours, I have finally calmed down. In the meantime, glad that the Mavs and Clips won, but wished the Nets hadn't folded down the stretch like the Pistons did Saturday night.

No time to panic yet, but I hope after hugging their moms and their baby mamas, the Pistons sat down and reviewed the tapes, and saw what the real problem was. Passive defense and lack of inside presence on the offensive end.

The cardinal rule is that you don't rely on the three ball on the road!! if it falls Ok, but establish the inside game first and then try the outside. The Cavs beat us in the paint 44-26 with most of that damage coming from James and Varejeo who with 16 pts, outscored our entire bench. All of his points of course were in the paint and when James brought them back in 4th, there were the drives right to the basket. Flip fell to respond here and left Ben on the bench too long and as LBJ waltzed right by the first line of defense in Prince and second line in Dice or Sheed. He scored three stroaight buckets during this stretch.

The 16 TO's really hurt..especially in the first half where the Pistons should been up 12-14 at the hakf instead of 6. Although the lead was stretched to 10 midway through the third, you could tell with only scoring 14 pts in the third, this was going to be tough ending.

Tay and Sheed's 7-21 shooting didn't help matters so both need to more aggressive around the hoop on Monday. The starters need to give the bench a cushion to work with before Hunter comes out there and starts throwing up bricks and not allowing anyone else to shoot. If I were Flip, I would bring in Dice, Delk and then Hunter and then Mo only if Tay is off.

To much writing here from me..I am starting to sound like nature boys drivvile.....Pistons...Just Win Baby!!!