Miami Feb. 6th, 7:30 PM

TV20 Detroit HD, NBA TV


The lottery bound Heat visit the Palace as the Pistons go for their 6th straight win. The Heat have one 1 game in over a month and are 0-1 in February at the time of this post!

hahaha nice picture.

i haven't been to the palace in awhile but i've got this game and the portland game on friday. it'll be good to watch them live again.

I wonder what kind of energy would starters have in this one. Hopefully lots of bench play.

Looking forward to a great Hoggcap. Been missing it.

Toronto outscored the HEAT AT MIAMI 33-12 in the 1st quarter yesterday, so we need to punch them out early. There's no excuse.

Then , they have the worst bench in the league. So, the Zoo Squad needs to keep em down in the 2nd.

Its up to the starters to set the standard for this game . I would expect No starter to have to go longer than 30 minutes.

FINAL: PISTONS 111- HEAT 78

I have to agree with you.

Pistons should also have a lot of fun trouncing their former nemisis. Motivation should not be a problem.

Here is what is important for this game:

Unlike last game, Afflalo is not cut out of the initial sub rotation.

Unlike last game, Amir is not cut out of the 2nd half rotation.

We need not one single hint that Flip Saunders is reverting.

We are on the road to a championship, lets not let Flip put up a roadblock.

Looking past the Miami game, we have some tough opponents coming up, more excuses for Flip to revert.

Here is what should be done:

The next 10 games, Amir, Stuckey, and Afflalo should each get 25 minutes, while Maxy gets 15. And Really, Samb should be getting 5 minutes per game.

And Herrmann should get 12 minutes per game. Bench Hayes for a spell, it won't hurt him any at all.

Keep Dyess down under 26 minutes per game. Keep the rest of our starters to under 30 minutes per game.

Now is always a good time to start. The last five games have been nice. A good start toward playoff preparation. We do not need to get as drastic as I am stating in this post, but it would be a good idea, just to counter Flip's tendencies to find excuses (in his mind only do they make sense) not to play a full 10 man rotation featuring our young players.

Be nice to get a 7' shot blocker ready for the Playoffs. Barring any trades to get a tough vet which is highly unlikly Samb could be very usefull in some situations. More mins for Amir would also be nice.

I understand why you want players to get certain minutes, however, shouldn`t the game as it is being played determine who gets how many minutes?

It is impossible to say who should get how many minutes before the game is played. Matchups, foul trouble, injuries all come into play when distributing minutes.

Absolutely not.

The goal is to win in the playoffs. Anything that you let interfere with that is bad.

You can give an excuse for virtually anything. But not one of them is a valid excuse not to play Maxiell, Amir, Afflalo, and Stuckey in a game. If the matchups are poor (which is highly doubtful) so what, it just gives the young player a growth opportunity. We don't change our starting lineup due to matchups, we adjust who guards who or our defensive schemes. Not playing Amir tonight, extensively, is a bad decision that I hope does not get made.