Well, we asked for development. The Forum consensus was that we were happy to lose games for the sake of development. This is harder than it looks. I hate losing, I know the team hates it, but we are "developing".....aren't we???? I'm about to go and cry myself to sleep.

Have a good hard cry, cause just giving Afflalo and Stuckey 8 minutes each ain't getting any development accomplished.

If Flip was not developing players then Hunter/Murray would have gotten those 16 mins. They would also have gotten the 12 mins last night and we probably would have won that game.

This game. Team just did not have it. Bulls did play great D though. One could never tell that they played the night before. It was obvious our team did.

Another dissapointing Saturday night game. What can you do.

Lucked out on the game, flipping through channels forgot I got WGN, and got to watch the game.

Then the pain came. Other than CB, we played like crap. Flip panicked, and refused to give the starters any rest except for Rip when Hayes starting getting hot; and Sheed when the refs called him for one too many fouls.

Observations:
CB is chippy, gotta love it, especially that he gets away with it so much.
JMax is in a downward spiral. It seems teams are adjusting to his play. His shots are getting blocked; ticky tack fouls; and poor decisions.
Flip needs to play the bench, even in bad moments. Hayes can score, Stuckey can score. Hermann can play D. We have depth, no time to play scared just because we're down in the 2nd quarter.

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I've got nothing else to add. Just disgusted with the current developments on this team.

Losing does not = developing. The young guys barely played. The core guys are playing big minutes and we're still losing. Amir never plays, tonight was no different. AA/Stuckey COMBINE for 16 minutes. In what way is that developing? The Pistons aren't losing games because of the rooks. They're not always helping a whole lot, but the starters are back to being unfocused and looking tired. All the while, Flip continues to press all the wrong buttons.

He doesn't seem to know what to press though.

14 point final quarter from our high powered offense. 16 points vs. Sacramento. Is it the players or the system?

I don't understand why we always seem to have Hayes/Prince, Hayes/Herrmann, or Prince/ Herrmann out there together. Seems redundant to me.

So glad I didn't waste $100 to go to this game.

Noah was a handful. Reminded me of Amir with the way he was keeping the ball alive.