Bills- I have also heard about some problems VanGundy is having. He is going to have a lot of them with Walker from what I could tell. Real fun watching Walker trying to take over a play only to get it blocked or stripped by one of the Wallace's.

Crucial mistake leaving Posey in during garbage time where he received what appeared to be a dislocated finger or a wrist injury.

It was the Shaq show for Miami but thats all they had. Only pre-season but the starters were at full steam and seemed to want to send Miami a message that they still are the team to beat. Rip talked about this in the post-game stating that everyone is favoring Miami.

Not too much to complain about from the Piston side. Rip and Tay got off to good games so all starters have had good games at some point during the 5 pre-seasons.

Delfino was very impressive off the bench and won Blaha/Lamb's sub of the game honors. Darko looked good but got some cheapies whistled against him on Shaq. Still Darko continues to show no fear at all when paired against 2 of the toughest front-line guys like Shaq and Zo.

Just a great entertaining game with the bench continuing to gell. Now pretty much just Dyess has to get his legs back and a choice has to be made between Dupree and Evans for the regular rotation spot. Evans is the clear leader.

On a minor note both Johnson and Acker played very smart out there in their limited time.