What a night of frustration and disgust. Well I was there to witness this game. First off, I arrived just in time to see Jamison wincing in pain on the floor (midway through 1st quarter) and the Pistons down by about 10 at the time.
The Wizards were firing on all cylinders, Stevenson, Arenas, Caron Butler seemed as though they couldn`t miss. Calvin Booth??
WTF, The Pistons made him look like Kareem Abdul Jabbar on a couple of possesions....
As noted by others some of the calls were simply outrageous. That`s when the folks around me knew I was a Piston fan, as my disgust and emotion became vocal! They were all over me then.
As the lead balloned to about 19 points, the Wiz fans around me were relentless with their taunts, and verbal assaults about Sheed and Webber. What was really funny, most of what they said was true!!
In the second half the Pistons made it a game for a little while, however, some turns by CB, a couple of ill advised 3`s by Sheed and some reaching fouls by Dyess, and all of a sudden down by 10 again.
After the block by Tay on a Caron Butler J, and the ally-oop slam by Tay, I rose to my feet and turned to the Wiz fans with my finger over my mouth, dam that was cool, they actually were quiet too, as the Pistons were on a run.
I left to beat the traffic with about 1:53 remaining in the game, with a dozen or so folk booing me when I left, it was all good though.
As Roscoe said, the loss doesn`t bother me, the way they loss bothers me. The mistakes, lack of focus, sense of urgency is quite troubling.
Most of us have been hard on Flip, and for good reason some time, but these are grown freakin` men who get piad a lot of money, and they should share in the blame with the Flipper.
I was listening too the Wiz post game show driving home from the game and about 3 callers who attended the game said how they thought the Pistons players looked and played disinterested and lethargic.
This team has talent but everyone from Joe D to the last player on the bench needs to take a long look in the mirror or this season is going to get very, very ugly.