You can't give up 35 points in any quarter let alone the 4th. The second string totally relaxed (read:sucked) even with L- Defense-Hunter in there.

Like I said in the Chat this should be a wake up call Joe to see that our bench is still suspect other than Dice and we need another body that can play on both ends of the court.

We shoot 57.9% from the floor only to see the Celtics shoot 56% and lose by 7. Anyone not seeing the game would think that we won in a shoot out and would be shocked to find out that the Pistons led by 22 at the end of the third and had to bring 4 starters back in with 5 mins left in the game to eek out a victory. The Celtics rolled off 13 straight before Flip came back from the rest room and called a time out. Yeah the players relaxed but it was Flips duty to stop that run and restore order. Well he did, but he risked the starters getting injured by substituting with the wrong group of players in there to open the 4th.

Some good things tonight: Rip didn't force that many shots and dished out 11 assists and Pistons had a total of 32. Would have had more team assists and a higher shooting percentage if Delfino and Jmax hadn't missed at least 4 easy layups in wild 4th qtr. CB and Cwebb both shot 75%, Dice 90%. The other starters all shot at least 50%

The bad we gave up 62 points in the second half and they had 29 assists., and despite Dice's 18 pts, the bench out gunned ours by the tune of 46 to 33