Blah. I hate these kind of games. Watching Mo Evans jack up shots like a bush leaguer trying to get a tryout makes me sick. He and Hunter and Delk all played for themselves at times, and I don't know why McDyess even showed up. What Delfino thought he was going to accomplish on that last play when they were down by 3 is anyone's guess.

Good game by Maxiell, though.

Still, it's educational. You realize how good the starters are at executing tiny things no one thinks about, like forcing someone else besides Mike friggin' James to take an inbounds pass.

who cares.... flip should have revamped the starting line up to use the bench players...this game's meaningless

Well, is that what playing the bench more would look like? Just a meaningless game--we have home court clinched.

Exactly. Meaningless. With the way that San Antonio and Dallas are playing down the stretch, I'm not even sure HCA will come in handy.

But I digress. Ugly, terrible game to watch unless you are watching it on TSN with the Raptors announcing crew. They make everything bigger than it is, and really do a good job of focusing on the team the Raptors played.

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nice one. I can't get the slasherx video to work.
game chat really brought the game to life...thanks guys...and girls...

I like that the bench got a lot of time. too bad we couldn't have gotten jmax more floor time during the season.

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BTW, whose job was it to deny Mike James? Did Flip actually have Mo Evans on him the last time? Mike should have been double teamed, and they shouldn't have covered the in-bounds pass.

What we didn't blow them out by 20?

Thanks for the video, it was great! The Raptors announcers seem like pretty big Pistons fans!

They're great because they are the only non-partisan announcers in the league (and the mop up crew at Raptors NBATV). Their job is to sell basketball + the Raptors not make insane comparisons like Andrew Bogut to Kareem Abdul Jabbar (I heard it on a Milwaukee telecast, no lie).

LanierFan combined with the commentary from the Canucks had me thinking last night. Chauncey had 10 assists in like 21 minutes. Another double double.

And the bit on the vid about how good he is, I mean, watching that, I took it all for granted. It made me realize how spoiled we are, that we are treated to such a high level of basketball intelligence and execution on a nightly basis, that fans in other sites are astonished and amazed by the quality of our players.

It's all exhibition games from here on out, so everyone better be prepared to see lots of bench, and several losses. Rip said in the post game locker room interview that they don't care about establishing a Pistons regular season win record. All they wanted was HCA.

Their minds are already on the playoffs.

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In the short time they were in the starters were playing great ball.With HCA locked I don't care if we see the bench 75% of the game.It's gonna get them some major burn hopefully some confidence going into the playoffs.As long as it doesn't effect the starters rythm.But they need to play more as a unit instead of individuals.They showed some flashes and completed plays but their defense at times,specially on James was horrible he could have gone to the parking lot and got his car and drove it through the lane.The playoffs are almost here,these are my favorite sports months of the year.

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