Second half review

Pistons had a lot more energy in the second half. Tayshaun Prince Cowboy'd up and grabbed a lot of offensive boards from his own misses (and others).

Jason Maxiell turned up his effort level and got some nice results.

Surprisingly, Nazr Mohammed got some playing time when Andrew Bogut went off on Chris Webber for 8 points in the 3rd. Nazr succeeded in slowing down Bogut and triggering two fastbreaks with long bomb passes. Pretty decent effort from Nasty.

McDyess picked up two techs and got ejected, and Sheed also received a tech. Sheed was totally mugged by two players and didn't get a call, but showed some self-restraint and took himself out of the game before he earned himself an ejection.

For the record, this was a lousy refereeing crew again, featuring the goofy smurf Garretson. When Garretson is the ref the Pistons always struggle with calls. He's a total weiner.

Sheed now has 14 techs btw.

Great defense down the stretch helped closed this one out despite the Pistons almost giving the game back several times on miscues.

Kudos to the coach for using Nazr, sticking with Maxiell when he was sluggish and getting through to Rip regarding technicals. This was far from a perfect effort, but we should take it and be happy.

Now we just need to find a way to involve Chris Webber in the second half passing attack.

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