I want this victory. Pistons better handle these cats. This is our house...rally around the family.

... with a pocket full of shells

Bulls on Parade - Rage Against the Machine

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taking my camera with me!! oh my!!

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They are the archetype for dominance. They are the gatekeepers of the conference. They are the Detroit Pistons.

Flip Jr. is starting today in place of Chauncey.

Can't log on to chat. What a way to start the new year. Kinda sux. Looking at the boxscore, Sheed is jacking up 3s like there's no 2007. WTF???

Murray: surprised me. Good offensive game: slow decision-making, occasionally bad decision making, but productive. Passed more and more willingly than usual. Stupid defense, but that's to be expected. Rebounded well.
Hamilton: 6 turnovers, otherwise excellent. Showed initiative to get Bell ejected.
Prince: invisible for the most part. Made a few good decisions and a few bad ones. Defense okay to bad.
R. Wallace: chucked like a madman. Played about 10 minutes of good defense, otherwise slow.
Mohammed: totally invisible; limited to short minutes.
Delfino: took three bad jumpers, including one which triggered a fast-break 3-point play that sealed the game inside a minute left. Two stupid bad pass TOs. Bad defense. Rebounded okay.
Maxiell: decent offense, decent rebounding, nice shotblocking. Didn't get nearly enough touches.
McDyess: rebounded and hit some shots. Showed reluctance to shoot when open occasionally. Slow defense.
Blalock: his worst game as a pro. Invisible. Got one very bad call that accounted for his turnover in short minutes.

If Detroit had played some tougher D they could have won this game. Nash is a MVP for a reason he just does everything he needs to do to win. At least Flip Murray got his offensive game going and that's a positive. Rip was ridden way too hard tonight (44 minutes) and 6 turnovers shows that he's tired. Flip activated Amir Johnson and maybe he should get a few minutes of playing time instead of Sheed. I think our best 5 players right now on the floor are Tay, Maxiell, Flip, Delfino and Dice. Not happy with a 3 game losing streak but every team goes through a bad patch and I'm glad the Pistons are having theirs now and not a week before the playoffs start (crosses my fingers on that one).

Pistons couldn't quite get over the hump at the end. They got some stops late in the game and had a chance to tie with under a minute left, but Delfino missed a 3 and Nash scored on the break, with and one on a dumb foul by Flip. Sheed was the escape goat in this game, 4-17 from the floor and 0-7 on threes. Rip was huge, Delfino had 11 pts and 7 boards off the bench, Dice had a nice game, and Jmax made some good plays as well. Nash and Amare combined for 66 points, on 23-34 shooting between them.

Flip Jr. had a terrible first half, but he had a really nice second half, finishing 9-14 from the floor, with 7 assists and only 2 turnovers. His defense is still awful; hopefully it won't hurt the Pistons as much against teams that don't have Steve Nash.

Not a bad effort for the Pistons in their first game in years without Chauncey. If Sheed can show up AT ALL, Flip Jr. can be productive in big minutes, and the bench keeps producing, the next couple of weeks might not be so bad.

There are only a couple things that I didn't like, other than that it was a good effort. You're facing the MVP without one of the few guys that gives him a lot of problems.

I thought we'd win that game after Bell went out. We stopped giving the ball to Rip, he was hot with their best defender on him. Should of took advantage of a weaker defender.