Man I swear, some of y'all must see dead people too.................reading way too much into this.

Darko has made us over analyze

Good comments today, but you all should have been out shopping instead of argueing about Amir and Primos garbage time play.

By the way did anybody see Flip jr sitting back there with fabio today,or was he in the locker room sulking again?

No. Playing Flip Murray for instance loses games, and makes you less prepared for the playoffs. If we tried letting Dupree play, same thing. Amir should play becasue he is a multitalented player who can greatly help this team.

Playing Hayes a lot does keep Prince off his feet, and Hayes ain't that bad. He is showing signs of getting better on D. Just maybe he is still getting stronger in the knees yet as that surgery gets further into the past. However, Hayes is a vet. The return on him playing is rather minimal compared to playing Amir.

Brezec has started for well over two straight seasons. Playing him, while keeping him game shape, will not increase his experience level by any significant amount between now and the playoffs. He basically is where he is.

Where can the same logic be found? Playing Afflalo. Playing Stuckey. Playing Samb. Playing Mejia if we add him to the squad. (And we should)

Now, lets review what we are arguing about. Against Houston, just yesterday, Sheed got into a bit of foul trouble. Dyess had just sat down 2 minutes prior, but Flip sent him right back into the game.

Flip could have called upon Amir. Do you know what happened the last time Amir was called upon for these type of 2nd quarter minutes? Yep, we ended up completely blowing the opponent away in the 2nd half.

There was plenty of time to play Amir in this game, in the rotation rather than garbage time. Indeed, even Brezec got minutes before Amir, and that is nothing more than an insult.

In sum, why talk generalities when we can talk about the last game. Flip Saunders messed up by not playing Amir in this game. When will he stop messing up the situation and start playing Amir some steady minutes. I am waiting.

geez, you here are TRULY OVERPANICKING!!!! And exp isn't just minutes, it is basicly undersanding "that thing". If player has no idea what is going on the court , it is waisting the time. And surely exp need a sort of "digesting", it is not like lee's post: give him 20 mins a game and he receives "enlightment". And PB plays C, AJ is PF, if he can't handle PF mins, then at C spot he would be a lot worse.

It is funny to read to OVERpanicking OVERanalyzes, but someone has to say: Stop!

sadly in scotland at the moment so can't see the games just follow the ticker online.... at the end of the 2nd quarter when Brezec came in I knew the Vultures would circle.

Was Y still in the game? He would have eaten our young boy alive, from what I could tell he ate Brezec up and he's bigger and stronger at this point.

The fact that Stuckey got in the 2nd quarter has to show that we are serious about getting the young kids serious playing time and bringing them along as fast as you can without just saying we won't try to continue to build as a team. The only thing Flip could have done differently in the first half was to bring in Amir in while Y was on the bench in the first half.

Folks need to relax, Lee does enough for all of us.... think some of you have been reading him so long your picking up his ways.... and that isn't a good thing lol

He was the guy on the bench in gray jacket who huddled and danced together before the tip-off.

They got us this game lived on local network, what amazed me was the their commentators praised the Pistons like no one. They credited what JD had done to the team, they admired our young bloods, they said that Maxieel is a promising beast with nurture from Dyess and Sheed . . .

Nevertheless, I bombed their mail box with message as: " More Pistons Games ". They praised our team as if we were the most popular team over here while three sport channels altogether only have televised one game this month on the other hand, weird.

Go Pistons.

Yes, Yao was still in the game near the end of the first half when Brezec came in. Yao pretty much took him to school on the next few possessions.

Some people in chat last night were commenting on Chuck Hayes' terrible FT shooting motion, which has a weird hitch just before he releases it, sort of like Larry Johnson but a lot worse. The bizarre thing is that I'm very familiar with him from his college days, since he played for my hometown Kentucky Wildcats, and he didn't have any sort of ugly shooting motion back then. If you check his stats, you can see that he's shooting 60% from the line in his NBA career, but at UK he shot a very respectable 73% (college stats are listed near the bottom). I really have no idea why he changed his shooting motion and turned himself into a much worse FT shooter.