Abe, we played SA last year virtually refusing to take the open look or go after cheap baskets. Now we play like every other team in this era of offense and guess what: our offense is near championship level. And you saw what our defense can do. If we score, it is very hard for even Miami or SA to beat us. In fact, Miami has played us tougher than SA. We dismantled them in the first quarter. Pretty impressive Piston team. Flip for coach of the year.

Everyone complains about the bench, but let me ask a question? Do SA big men get rest because Pop loves his bench, or that he has a scrub named Nesterovic STARTING thus the bench is no worse. When you have 5 great players you play them. Iverson has always played 40 a night, so has Kobe, Garnett, Jordan etc etc. I don't want to discredit the bench guys, a minute more here or there for the starters doesn't cause that much extra fatigue.

Amen! and its not like they have forgotten how to play DETROIT BAAAAASKETBALL, they are just not having to do it every night for 48 mins... some nights they don't have to do it at all. I think though if you ask SA they would say we showed the defense we know how to play for 48 mins TWICE now. Our starters are playing a tad less minutes and you would think that as the season goes on the bench will get more burn, but the minutes they are getting are not as hard as minutes as they had to have last year to win.

The guy takes the reader through an microscopic statistical analysis of each team and its players, then in the end his three reasons for a San Antonio victory are basically from gut feel.

Unbelievable

i think there is a big difference in performance but it isn't so evident with delfino getting limited minutes. delfino is a better defender right now. delfino is a better ball handler. delfino can create his own shot. delfino creates shots for other players. evans is just a better offensive rebounder.
i don't think we are sunk without any of the pistons except chauncey.

yeah. sheed proved my point last night. he doesn't bring it every game. i know sheed is a great player but he has the talent to play like that every night. the only thing i get on sheed about it rebounding and not giving effort every night. these are things i don't have a problem with. the only reason i ever mention them is when someone dogs darko out for doing the same thing. i like sheed as a player.

hah!! i called it in chat last night, lee found a way to blame the pistons 1-for-12 shooting to start the 4th quarter on evans. amazing. i'm not even sure why i read his game recaps anymore, as it is clear he is not watching the same game i am. in fact, lee recaps practically write themselves - i'll write saturday's lee recap before the game even takes place and then we'll compare after the game.

the story of the game is NOT evans, and since the game was practically the same as xmas, the game isn't the story either. the story was that we didn't need arroyo at all to pull out the road victory in SA. the tay/rip/delfino backcourt is a nifty idea, particularly against SA of whom we have a significant height advantage over...but that's not something we want to necessarily rely on.

but it does bring up the interesting question, that if lindsey comes back and adjusts just fine to the new offense, do we even need arroyo?

you know who i would really like to have as a backup point, is eric snow. after watching the cavs/lakers last night, he's a very smart player and an excellent defender.

Last nights game was a feel good win but it goes away Saturday when the Pistons have to take care of Business and beat the Bobcats. I had picked Detroit to lose last nights game in San Ann, but I was thinking after they had lost to Utah last Saturday that Detroit had to win this game. The Pistons showed that this season is theirs to win and that they saw a team they know they have to beat to get back the trophy. January should be the month where the Pistons should take care of business and put more room between them and the rest of the leasgue.

January has two tough road games, and two trap games. THe two tough road games are Minny and New Jersey and these are not tough because the teams are real good its because the Pistons have a hard time playing games in these arenas. The fact that the Pistons spanked New Jersey earlier in the season will make that game tough and the Target Center never has been kind to Detroit. The two trap games this month(actually when I think about it there is 3 trap games) are Knicks, and the Bucks. I think Boston on Monday is a trap game also because Boston will fight hard not to get swept for the season in an afternoon game. These are trap games because these are 2nd games of a back to back nights. If you look at all of the Pistons loses they were energy games three of of them were back to backs. The Pistons can win the rest of their games this month if they come focus but look for another 13-2 finish for January. GO PISTONS GREAT WIN LAST NIGHT!!!!!!

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Good work Motown...I'll add some others..

Manu slams his hand on the scorers table...this seemed to be a real crowd and announcer pleaser.

Chauncey draws blood but can't draw a foul...it would seem that 'blood don't lie' but in this case even a gash on Chauncey's head didn't get a call.

Manu??......Tony??....give these two credit for keepin the Spurs in the game.

The swagger...Pistons have it and the Spurs don't.

YEAH.....it was a pic of me and Rockets cheerleaders...didnt work though.....how da bear get there? I still like it...LOL