Detroit Pistons vs Milwaukee Bucks

Friday February 19

8:00 pm

Local TV: FS Detroit

Nat'l TV:

Radio: 97.1 The Ticket

I'll definitely be there!

Who's excited for some basketball tonight?

Is it true that John Hammond managed to acquire Primoz Brezac yesterday? If so, the race for Executive of the Year (and probably the decade) is over.

Better dust off Kwame...............

I'm excited. Hakim Warrick and Check Mah Booty against JJ!!!

WOOOO


CHAT IS OPEN!!!

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It's been very hard to watch our bench over the past bunch of games. Guys you know, based on their histories, who are excellent offensive players, are stinking it up: Bynum, Gordon, CV - and those same guys are playing terrible defense as well.

Obscene coaching. Playing Tay 42 minutes on this, a third game in four nights. The rest hardly matters. Kuester is absolutely detrimental to the health of the team and needs to go.

Rip seems to have his shot back. Gordon and CV, our "great saviours obtained from years of cap moves," managed virtually no scoring for us. Wilcox, the guy we wanted so bad we gave away Afflalo and Amir to clear cap room for, we did not play in this game. Meanwhile, another guy Joe Dumars gave away, Carlos Delfino, helped kick our hind ends tonight.

And how is it that Stackhouse was picked up for nothing by the Bucks? Oh, thats right, he would take minutes from Rip. Or Gordon. Or Bynum. Or Stuckey. All sacred.

Apparently not that sacred though. With Tay playing so many minutes, we kept the small ball down to just 8 forgettable minutes. Which means only a couple minutes each for our four guards. So why is it ok all the sudden to play these guys so little?

Yep, yet another game with no backup small forward used. Just like every other game since Tay returned to the rotation. And yet another loss. Which I guess is what that loser Kuester is comfortable with.

Stuckey had a fine game. His opponent went 1 for 16, so you can't complain much about Stuck's D tonight.

Bynum looked perhaps a bit healthier tonight. Why he needs nearly 20 minutes though I don't know. Oh gee, thats right, Kuester has to avoid playing a backup small forward at any cost. Probably some kind of. (I edited that thought, sorry.)

JMAX and Ben just played the D. JJ had a good scoring night.

Lots of good effort by a lot of our players. But pathetic coaching on Kuester's part pretty much negated it all. See you all Sunday. (6pm game.)

If CV, Bynum or Gordon could hit the ocean by dropping the BB from a ship in the middle of the damn thing, then your argument about Tay and Rip playing too much would be more valid.

Scales tipping back to a top 5 pick.

Yep I think Joe saw the writing on the wall and decided to stay pat without any trades. Good move, so the top five pick does look promising.

Well I just saw a replay of the game and Lee your assessment is right on.

Let me add a couple of more notes:

Only the defenseless Pistons could hit their first 11 shots and still lose a game...in fact not only lose the game but lose the lead so soon after hitting those shots. I am not sure what was worse to start the second qtr,our defense or our offense....its a tie.... The Bucks secondary not only outclassed our second unit (which included a tired Tay) in the that second qtr, but they basically outgunned our bench 53-14 for the game.

Our guys were out hustled to loose balls, offensive rebounds and every pass thrown near the sideline was picked off or knocked off Pistons hands. 16 TO's and all at inopportune times.

Our prized free agents were 2-10 shooting and although CV played 18 minutes, he didn't take his first shot until about 7 mins left in the game. I am certain we could have gotten at least 10 points out of Daye if he had half of those minutes.

Meanwhile Piston castoffs Delfino and Stackhouse had 28 points as Delfino literally kept the Bucks close in the first quarter with a couple of three balls while the Pistons were being so prolific from the field.

Delfino and Sammons the guy the Bucks picked up this week, combined to hit more threes (7) than the Pistons took.

Rip followed up his 36 pts the other night with 29. The other starters were good too, but with bench not giving us any real scoring and then allowing the bucks bench to score at will, the question was could we comeback and win it??

Well leave it to Sammons to beat us (Ben) with the late three and for the Pistons to waist several scoring ops when they were down 81-80 with about 4:40 left in the game and only scored two more buckets in the final 4+ minutes of the game.

Yep Joe and Q have us taynking..

I 'm thinking that JJ needs to come off the bench. Put CV in the starting line-up (even though he hasn't earned it) so Ben can help him on defense and "hopefully give us another person to stretch the D.

Let JJ help the bench get on track. His hustle may be enough to generate more scoring ops for Gordon and WB.

Can you reward a player by sending him to the bench to help the second unit in today's NBA?