I somewhat concur here. You think him starting with the vets would improve his game somewhat, but although the defense is there, his shot has been a little short. Maybe he is playing to many minutes and he is worned out

Also I apreciate Stuckey attacking the rim, but he still is not getting enough calls to warrant 3-4 attacks in a row. . If he his going to do this somebody needs to hovering around the baseline and be prepared to receive the quick pass for the handoff and ez baseline layup. I guess it is probably to late to add this to Flip's playbook for this season

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both AJ and max do not read game well..jet, vets have got many quick passes from stuck, they know where to be.

And for dixon critics: he is in this roster only sg who can create his own shot. And you cant defend against of faastbreaks. And name me one, who in this game defended well. He And struckey are adequate scorers, max, AJ,AA are opportunists.

It is tough going without your leading scorer for so long and its starting to show. The other starters are just not stepping up.

There goes the 60 win season.

What, you think Dixon is? Dixon can score, but if you have paid attention to the last two games, you would also notice that Dixon can not defend. Not even at all.

Sure, Afflalo does need to take a lot of shots between now and the playoffs to get his comfort level up.

Here is how it goes. The coach is suppose to have a plan about how to win. Then you follow that plan. What is Flip's plan? To play Dixon, regardless of how many points he gives up on defense? Very poor plan. Lots of points given up, and foul trouble on our bigs since everyone drives right by Dixon and gets inside.

Here is a good plan: Play Afflalo extensively in the playoffs. To that end, he should be getting a whole lot of playing time, and asked to take about 14 shots a game these last 4 games.

Look at the 3rd quarter last night. Very solid defense from Afflalo. Contrast that to what we got from Dixon - some points on offense, and a ton of points given up on defense. Not to mention how disheartening to the team it must be to try to play D to no avail since they are going to go right thru Dixon for scores.

Afflalo can score too. If given all those shots, he just might score as much as Dixon. He is taller and more able to get a shot off in many cases. But hey, maybe he would not score quite as much. Maybe a coupleof buckets less per game. But Affllao will give up a lot less points than Dixon.

There is no question that AA is a better defender than Dixon, however, he would foul out in a quarter during the playoffs. The rookie "booga boo" would get him!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, lee, but game isnt one-man-herioc -defence. Iguadola penetrated against of everyone and dixon actually helped to keep somewhat decent score( not falling below -10). Yep afflalo is fantastic defender but... you cant "schedule" how to gain shooting touch. Afflalo works surely hard on his shot but sometimes hard work pays off, sometimes not. Nobody knows "sharpshooters recipes", thats why even in NBA are so many bad shooters, etc.

Of course, I'd like to see afflalo over dixon but afflalo has just too many glaring minuses for being decent backup to rip. and "thanks" to afflao inabilities flip has to play dixon.And vice versa.

Was anyone else pretty impressed by how Philly looked? That's a fun team to watch, I'll have to do it more in the future.

Is there any stat to show this that Dixon's offense is lesser than his defense? and vice versa for AA?

There are quite a few stats that do this. All of the stats seem to show that Dixon is more productive on the court on both ends than Afflalo.

Detroit Pistons NBA stats and data from 82games.com

Dixon's defense is not as bad as Lee claims while Afflalo's defense is not as good as Lee claims. It's just a subjective view of things. It will be interesting to hear Lee's rationale for "How the stats lie".

I am thinking that AA/Dixon will be a two headed backup 2 once the playoffs get going, if scoring is needed more dixon gets the call if defense is needed more then AA will get the call. Both are playing a bit out of position at the moment when your saying there taking part of the 35 or so mins that Rip will be in the game once he returns and by what was said last night that will be Fri night.