He was outplayed by Eric Snow for the duration of the game. And while he came up with two clutch buckets and drew some important fouls in the 4th quarter, and came up with a strip of James, but he made a number of mistakes down the stretch, too. The stretch in the final 24 seconds where he gave up the ball to Sheed and then missed a game-sealing free throw wasn't the brightest moment in his career.

I still have at least the hope that it was a turning point in his matchups with Eric Snow, though. A 25 point, 8 assist game at the Palace would be nice.

It's good to see the Pistons finally win a close game, but playing with the lead and the penalty and not needing any of Flop's clutch playcalling helped with that.

And how about that rebounding? I've got an idea - the Pistons should try doing that a little more often.