that's what i meant. these are game threads, so why not acknowledge when a player has an off-night in those threads? i'm not talking overall. look, i love afflalo's defense and he's played great against some awesome players, without knowing their tendencies or anything. but green lit him up in the 1st quarter, and i was the 1st (and only) person to say something about it.

Watch out or I'll start calling him a malcontent next.

Point taken. I think it's maybe because he is usually great defensively, and there are others that are really bad, it just doesn't get mentioned. I'm sure if it it's a few games in a row, ppl will start talking about it.

Also, Flip tends to favor the no defense offense player. AA slips in and out of the rotation with no real reason. That's probably why i feel the need to defend him. Same reason there was a huge outcry about Amir.

I actually do think there are situations Dixon would be useful in. I just don't trust Flip to make the right adjustments.

I haven't trusted his adjustments since he showed up at the palace in 2005...I am still waiting for him prove that he can coach a NBA team past round 3....but I am optimistic that this is the year.....

Welcome to my world, Dre.

If our chances of getting to the finals hinges on Afflalo then we may as well just pack it now because it ain't going to happen if thats the case.

I have to remain optomistic that the 3rd time will be the charm for Flip and the Pistons. They must have learned something from the past 2 ECF's.

Insult Affalo all you want. We still win when he plays, and lose when he does not.

Warthog, not that your powers of observation are generally all that bad, but in this case, you are very mistaken.

Green only scored twice in the first quarter while Afflalo was in the game. Perhaps you failed to notice that Afflalo was taken out of the game five minutes in? One of those scores was Greene using a pick well and getting a quick shot off. Very hard to defend that. Greene was also hounded into a turn. And he had one layup. That is hardly lighting someone up.

You want to be fair, tell me how many times in this game Afflalo was burnt, then tell me how many times Dixon was burnt. This is a very fair comparison since they were both playing shooting guard minutes.

Now tell me how many times Afflalo let his man get inside, causing a guy to be open on the other team. Dixon? Now tell me how many times Afflalo let his guy get past him, and it resulted in one of our bigs having to foul. Dixon? I know the answers, do you?

How is that an insult?

lmao. Hey, this is the equivalent of a Lion's Superbowl run!

Me neither. I suppose I like Sheed just a tiny bit more than everyone else.

It's super insulting max. If you keep insulting Afflalo like this, the Pistons WILL LOSE in the first round.

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