The Pistons came out looking a little out of sync. Nazr didn't look so good. Billups looked pretty bad. They did keep going to Tay and he curled into the lane with a soft floater for the most part. Looked like they had better spacing for passes out of the post.

The Heat was able to get out in the open court early. When the 2nd unit came in they really helped out the team. Flip Murray made some good plays and i think help some on the boards on both ends. Dale davis brought a good inside presence and rebounded well. I think Hunter kinda cancelled himself out with a combination of nice D and stupid decisions. Delfino was OK in his time. Dyess IMO was solid. I liked Davis and McDyess tightening up the boards. It seems that those to end up in better positions to grab offensive boards.

Flip S. mentioned making it hard on Dwade and it looked like they managed to do that but Miami (ZO) cleaned up WAY too often on the offensive glass. Nazr came to life in the second half. Some one needs to work on his skills but I like his intensity. Rip became the go to guy and there was a stretch where anyone who got Kapono attacked and scored. Miami came back but the Pistons started hitting the 3 ball.

Sometimes I wonder why the starting 5's frontline is so porous but I kinda believe that is cuz chauncey gets beat so much. When he gets beat by Jason "I just had rehab" Williams, what can you do. Chauncey also got blocked taking the 'big shot.'

The pistons score well when there is a lot of movement but a lot of times once the set is run, they clear out and let whoever has the ball (rip or tay) try to create. Neither are good crunch time iso guys.
We got it done from downtown but I liked how we tried to work inside out. and if we could inject some lateral quickness into CB, we'd dominate.

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