Originally Posted by mikhail1973

I say 50-50. They will either win it or they won't.

Have a nice day.

Originally Posted by CloudWalker

...wow.....


I actually got Lower than the Low.

now I'm scared.

Originally Posted by roscoe36

Rotfl. I wasn't aware there was a third option Mikbuddha.

Originally Posted by Lee356

Yes. Like the last game, where Herrmann and Hayes were a combined minus 15 in the game. Either Afflalo or Amir could have played those minutes, and I highly doubt we would have stunk quite so bad as we did. You can disagree if you want, but that is my opinion.

For the series, we continually did poorly with any combination of two bigs in the game. Like Sheed and Dyess. Or Dyess and Theo. Or Sheed and Theo. None of these combinations worked well, as it meant one of our bigs had to chase Lewis around, which never worked. We did start Maxiell in some of the games, to eliminate this some. But we could have eliminated a lot more of these times by adding Amir to the rotation and letting him guard Turk or Lewis while Tay or Afflalo guarded the other small forward. (Orlando plays 2 small forwards.)

As far as CB being out, yes, it hurt us a bit, but only because Flip let it hurt us a bit. Stuckey was not the problem. The problem is that a lot of Billups minutes were taken by Hunter, which is a huge dropoff. I am not saying Hunter did all that bad in the series, but I believe we could have done better with a three guard rotation of Stuckey, Rip, and Afflalo supplemented by some playing time from Dixon. (When he could come in and guard Nelson - and we never did use this as far as I can remember. I believe the brief times we did play Dixon we had him on bigger guards.)

In sum, we could have mathced up a lot better than we did, particularly on defense. And I believe, with or without Billups, we could have slaughtered Orlando four straight. Let me say it this way, yes, at times we did match up, and other times we did not. For the greatest part (about 85% true if all times considered) we did great when matching up and poorly when not. And never, not for a second, was Flip forced not to match up. He just simply chose not to match up. In my mind, he chose this just because he hates playing rooks and young players.

Originally Posted by Dlev59

Wow.

I respect your opinion Lee, but hey, it`s your opinion.

If the Pistons win the title, and AA, and Amir see limited PT, I can`t wait to read your post.

On the other hand, I think we all know the contents of that post if Detroit falls short.

Originally Posted by Lee356

So, you are agreeing with me that if Detroit falls short it will because Afflalo nor Amir got any significant playing time. Glad we agree.

Originally Posted by max

I don't know, limited PT the guy was in street cloths for game 5.

I think they could help, especially Amir. Does not look like he will get the chance this year though.

Originally Posted by Dlev59

You are right Max, I started to say limited or no PT.

I think he probably could help too, however, the Pistons hope of winning a title certainly don`t hang on Amir`s or AA`s PT as some would have us believe.