Family is all that matters , We all are just watching a game. Ask Tony Dungy. My heart broke in pieces when I heard about his son. 'My ' mother is going through Chimotherapy. Sports is supposed to give us a break from reality, and that's why I love my Pistons. We're 20-3 and that dont even happen in college any more. Enjoy this 4 year run and all that u have and beyond because we all could be gone tomorrow....my bruddahs!!

we have a good enough PF in dice to make up for sheed, i hope he has the night off to regroup.

I think he suits up.

you think so? if he does i don't think he'kk play as much.

This per McCoskey on the Fan. Nothing said to be definite though

Rip apparently has a bad back and is a game time decision. (per post at mlive.)

IMO, it's as good a time as any to give the bench guys a chance (yep, including Darko). It's only one game. Let's see what happens. One win would be awesome and one loss no big deal at all.

If Flip wants to win, Darko comes off the bench instead of Dale. Troy is perimeter floating PF, Dale aint got the wind to run with him, and Jmax is too small to cover him and has shown zero defensive rebounding ability this year.

Wonder who will start for Rip, my money one Evans, though I think it should be Delfino, but Del will get some serious burn. On a positive note, this could be the game our bench needs to prove itself. No excuse for anyone not playing all out. I'll take a few mistakes and even a loss, as long as the effort is there.

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Last year LB started Delfino when Rip couldn't play. Of course Delfino played like %%%% because of injuries, but I'd expect him to play well if he were to start.

Blaha says all starters are in....

I had a few tonight with this crappy dial-up computer I'm on so I couldn't get on chat. However, just had a few funny thoughts: Bill Davidson, interviewed at halftime about Joe D's number/name on the Pistons floor, had this to say: "Joe Dumars is a good person."

Who says Z doesn't come before D? Golden State's Zarko saw a little PT in the first half. That's Zarko, NOT Darko. Maybe Darko should be called "Larko."