We got what we wanted... bench play by everyone minus Amir... what no W?
I have no more ill will towards Sheed.. he simply doesn't compete at a high level for more that one out of three games... not acceptable... time to move him.... sorry your time is up.

Delfino?... ok, he's on the rise.... great to see.... I'm on board and will gladly admit my undue critisism if he can string a few quality performances together... nice job.
Other than that this is not a bad loss... %%%% happens... don't worry be happy.

PISTONS: To the Point

Read at the end. Flip would like Chauncey to be back by January 6th, the Bulls game.

We've been outrebounding teams by a lot lately mainly in our 3 game win streak. It's turnovers, freethrows, and some slow rotations that have cost this team. Very weird. I can feel a big win streak coming for some reason though.

I assume you watched the game, so you're making that comment as a joke. Max/Delf/Blalock/Dice saved our butts in this game. If we didn't play the bench we would have lost by a lot more.

PopcornMachine's GameFlow - Phoenix @ Detroit

We'll try this again. Phoenix Highlights

YouTube - phoenix hilites

FELIZ ANOS NUEVE, MI FAMILIA!!

In my ongoing goal to go at least 48 hrs without yelling, I am at hour 14 and doing good. Its a strange feeling when u can actually feel the hatred in your stomach trying to get out. Maybe I really am a Sith...or at least Damien's seed. Anyway, here's the DIRTY LOW DOWN :

Steve Nash vs Flip Murray.

I dont when , as good as he is, that Nash became Larry Bird, but that was as good as "i just punked yo %%%%% " game Ive seen since The Great One laced up in the Garden. There was nothing Flipstone could do to Nash and he took it and liked it. It was like a prison rape. And all Flipper could do was call Steve "Daddy".
If this is what yall wanted from this loser when he signed here, then u got it and I hope your happy. As far as his 18 pts go, I was ready to pop Blaha in the mouth when he made a quick reference to Vinnie Johnson AFTER FLIPITCH MADE 2 SHOTS IN A ROW(woo-ooo) as 'shades of the Microwave' ! Gimme a bruckin fake!!!!
This was never a close game in the fact there was no one to shut down the MVP. He would have lit CB up for 40, like Zeke would do to remind Stockton 'who's boss'(THATS OLD SKOOL,HOMEY).
wE AINT SWIMMIN,YALL.wE JUST PADDLIN. We got to establish who's boss in this pitiful east. Thats why I said the key to this is Tay. He's got to be a 20/5 and 5. He's got to stop trying to back his flat %%%%% in to the lane fron 20' on the wing. And work to get lobs, taps and score from the left elbow, like Zach Randolph.
Also, Sheed...has got to go....

As we say in OLD WORLD, "Ba-dee-ya..Suerly you remember..."

I am so conflicted. For all this, I couldve stayed a sith...

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oops - took my camera to the game, but left the batter in the charger at home heh. was wondering if they'd make a new player intro for flip murray, but they didn't.

this was the most entertaining game of the year that i've been to, and i didn't even care about losing. the crowd was actually getting into it, the bench is continuing to get more minutes, and in crunch time too. this is key for their development. we outscored them in the paint, destroyed them in 2nd chance opportunities, and outrebounded them too.

flip murray got hot a few times and was able to provide us some offense, but yeah he was non-existent on D. but i was impressed when he drove to the basket...not so much when he tried posting up or doing other thing offensively. too many times he got caught up in switches and was left defending stoudemire.

blalock didn't have a spectacular game. he had pretty good man defense, but got absolutely destroyed on picks amare threw. he was never able to fight through one, and instead got a good pounding.

mcdyess was huge at several points - hustling and bringing energy, getting a monstrous putback dunk, and playing hard.

maxiell and delfino had excellent games. delfino did well on the fast break, made shots, and successfully drove the lane a few times. maxiell had a monster block, took a charge, made some tough shots, and continues to improve his rebounding (which, if you all remember, was a knock on him during the preseason).

rip was great until late - but c'mon flip, give him a breather. tayshaun looked good early but didn't get many scoring opportunities later.

i will say that the detroit crowd still responds to defense more than anything. when maxiell and delfino came in, delfino had his 360 drive to the lane, maxiell got the huge block, and then took the charge, the crowd went nuts. everyone got on their feet and cheered, which basically *never* happens during the 2nd quarter of a regular season game. no one is yelling about how delfino sucks anymore, and i heard plenty of "jason maxiell is having a great game", "jason maxiell is awesome" comments throughout.

so again, sucks that we lost but we still gained overall. oh, and nash is ridiculously good. i mean it's insane how easily he gets a shot off, how his passes look like they're at weird angles and going out of bounds, yet land perfectly in his teammates' hands. and yeah amare is good, but nash makes him far far better. pair mcdyess or maxiell with nash and they'd goes for 20/10 every night.

one more thing - 150th straight sellout...but it's impossible to sell my tickets this year. last year i sold my tickets when the pistons played the suns and heat, and made almost triple each ticket's value. this year i put them at face value and couldn't even get rid of them. and the pistons took out full page ad in the detroit news.

Yeah that was tongue in cheek... however with all the solid bench play we didn't play the Suns as well as we did in the past when we BEAT this team with our overused starters.... I'm sure the +/- numbers were better during those games.
The bench should be developed more than in the past... there's usually a sacrifice involved as for wins & losses.

We beat this team twice last year. Both times without Amare. The previous season, we beat them once at home without Nash. We did lose the Phoenix game in 2005 when they had a full lineup.

Make no mistake, this Suns team with a full roster is dominating. I think they would have beat the Spurs in 2005 if Jerry Stackhouse didn't take out Joe Johnson, breaking JJ's face in the WC Semis.

Sheed needs to show up or sit a few games out. He is making this team much worse right now. We win this one if Max eats all of his minutes. Hell, we win this one if we just throw someone in who won't shoot.

A PF that shoots about 43% from the field is sad.

Last edited by FreshPrince22 : Yesterday at 04:58 PM.
I'll go with that.