Coming off a huge road win at Dallas the Pistons are 4.5 underdogs to the suddenly struting Magic.
Get your Darko T-shirts.
The Magic are an up and coming team. The Pistons need to remind them it's a long way to the top and you must go through Detroit Basketball.

At Orlando December 8th, 7:00PM

TV: NBA LP, TV 20 (Detroit)


Coming off an impressive win in Dallas last night the Pistons head to Orlando take on the surprising Orlando Magic.

At 14-6, (7-1 at home) the Magic are in 1st place in the Southeast Division. Led by Dwight Howard and a healthy Grant Hill they will be a handful for the Pistons.

Darko and Arroyo will want to show their ex teammates what they are missing, and the Pistons will want to continue their winning ways.

This is the Magic`s 4th game in 6 days, and the 2nd of a back to back for Detroit. Tay logged 40 minutes last night, followed by 39 for Rip, 36 for CB, and 33 for Sheed.

It seems as if Flip is going to a nine man rotation with J-Max being the odd man out.

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"I`m shocked" The Low, on the Pistons game 2 win in the ECF at Boston.

I'll be there. Now all I need is bballjay to join me and this could REALLY get interesting.

Bballjay:"That was a block"
MotownPride:"Foul"
Bballjay:"BLOCK!"
MotownPride:"FOUL!"
Bballjay:"Taste Great"
MotownPride:"Less filling"
Bballjay:"Pepsi!"
MotownPride:"Coke!"
Bballjay:"Kramer from Seinfeld sucks!"
MotownPride:"You have a point, there."

The Magic are at home tonight for the first time after their just-completed 6 game road trip, which was mostly out West. They went 4-1 in those west games, and then lost at Indiana two nights ago.

I'll be getting back from travel right as the game starts, so hopefully I'll be able to check in to the chat at some point during the second half.

chauncey hurt + lindsey hurt = dnp for will blaylock.

sorry folks but orlando is going to beat us tonight. flip murray will continue to get exposed but flip saunders will not bench someone with the same name as him.

look for a jmax sighting as all the bigs will be in foul trouble trying to deal with d. howard. darko will block several of his shots but that is only because jmax is rusty.

delfino will lock up hill but we will be behind in the second half so he won't play after halftime.

arroyo is going to go off.

On second thought, I'm glad bballjay isn't going with me. I can see him jumping out of the stands to give Darko a hug after he scores his first two points. Then security will need to get called as bballjay refuses to release his death grip on Darko's leg.

BTW, we win this one by 7 points.

Detroit by 2.

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I hope one of those shots is not a slam, because if it is, Darko`s arm will be shattered in several places...............

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