Great game from CB. He led us to a nine turnover game. Pretty darn good. Never missed a free throw, never turned the ball over on his way to 14 assists, 32 points. A lot of driving inside as well as lots of outside shots made.

Flip Murray did nothing. I won't be too harsh on him though as he is recovering from the flu. I will point out that Flip Saunders again chose disaster by putting Murray and Hunter in the backcourt together. One of the worst stretches for us there in the 2nd quarter. After a very slow start, down 2-12, we came back with a vengeance with a 24-7 run. Then the Hunter-Murray disaster. We still managed to end the half up a few points as Billups came back in to end the half.

Dyess had a great game off the bench with 18 points and no misses. Seven for seven. All outside shots except one touch up from a pass he barely handled. Sheed got that assist. It was noted in the postgame show that Dyess was avering something like 17 and 10 over his past 4 games. I remember the rebound number for sure anyway. Its always a lot of fun to listen to the post game show on the way home after a win.

The Palace announced another sell out. Really? A whole lot of empty seats. My section continually was making noise, but the rest of the Palace was kind of quiet. Oh, and my daughter still has not seen a regular season loss. (She has seen a playoff loss, but we won the series so...)

Hunter played 18 minutes in the 2nd half. He was hitting his shots so I can't complain about that at all. Not bad on the D either. Murray could get right back out of the rotation soon if he does not get back into form. Hunter has the flu too by the way, so the competition is fair enough.

Defino got some boards, made one shot on a drive in, and played ok D on Carter and Jefferson. He did not play in the 2nd half. Maxiell, due to not getting defensive boards, did not get to play much; but again, it was not him. We got outrebounded badly the whole game and JMAX played little. He did hit a short jumper from about the foul line.

From about 6 minutes into the 3rd on, we only used 6 players. Hunter, Dyess (in for Webber who really should not be playing yet due to the flu.) Billups, Tay, Sheed, and 4 minutes from Dale Davis. Sound the alarm? You bet. A win is nice, but to freeze the rotation, stopping all substitutions, that early in the game? Questionable. How is that expanding the rotation?

Tay had a near triple double. Never noticed it really during the game but heard it on the postgame show. 15 points, 9 assists, 8 rebounds. His outside shot was not going early, and it never did get going. Tay did all his damage inside in this one. A steal and dunk was his highlight for the game.

Our first 2 points came on a hook shot by Webber. But other than that, Moore outplayed Webber completely in this game. First Moore was making his outside shots. Then we find him cleaning up the glass. Then he is hitting pullup jumpers on us. Carter was the big scorer for them and Boone got some too. But Carter took a whole lot of shots to get his.

Sheed scored in fairly close several times, but his 5 of 6 from behind the arc stole the show. I still say Sheed is nowhere near healthy as far as his wheels go. It shows on his defense and rebounding. Just not enough quickness.

Looked at as a pair of games on back to back nights, the Pistons played their bench plenty, so I can have some comfort in that. Delfino got about 36 minutes between the two games. Maxiell palyed little tonight but started last night. Hunter had his first helpful stint since coming back from suspension. Davis helped with some timely defense, even though just 5 minutes between the two games, still involved. GO PISTONS!!!!!