Denver is a good team. Sorry, not a good team, but an excellent collection of athletes.

Camby matches up well inside, Boykins always gives us fits, and K-Mart is very good and annoying when he goes off.

The Ps would have had a chance to win it, but I really felt like Chauncey kept trying to put on a show for the home town. Some of those late 3rd, and 4th quarter trey attempts were really suspect.

I saw Mr. Big Head chiding Mo Evans early in the game, but that only goes so far when CB was unable to get the offense organized down the stretch. His 4th quarter ball handling has all but disappeared since just before the All-Star game. I've never seen him lose his handle that many times, let alone in consecutive matches.

Oh well, Seattle should get all they could ask for Friday night. I think Flip is starting to assert himself, and practice tomorrow should be intense.

Maybe the Nugs just have our # this year. Maybe Mr. MVP should learn how to run a fast break. Not happy, but it's one loss to a team we will probably never see again this season.

Oh, and Tayshaun, Tayshaun, Tayshaun, when the light is brightest, it's time to shine my man. It's Hero Time. Carmello had the last laugh tonight. More so than that big goofy kid K-Mart.

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I think Denver is one of those teams that can surprise you when you're unfamiliar with them. It's a matter of solving their fastbreak and defending those alley oops better. Both can be done, and there's a great chance this team gets upset in the 1st round. But just like last year, they'll look unstoppable after the first game.

Carmello looked as good as he's ever looked against Detroit. Man, I wish we had one player that could get to the hole half as well as Carmello can. That's the one truly bland thing about our team - their lack of one-on-one ability. (yes, Anthony could be a Piston right this very moment. I'm aware).

I still hate Kenyon Martin. The game of basketball is insulted when he drains treys like that. What a clown. Truly. Brings back memories of the Nets. Man, rarely does a team come along like that Nets team...just a purely despicable team.

The Nuggets made Detroit look very beatable tonight. Unfortunately we're seeing that the Pistons can be out worked and out jumped.

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Denver would not score 80 points on us if it were a playoff game. They can play some defense but their offense is weak. We played no D and did not scout their loop plays to boot. I hate giving up a game to SA--that is what bothers me. Rip still gets too frenetic at times when someone like Patterson gets into him.

Before we all get carried away with Delfino, his shot is not yet developed as a young player. And, what is with Tay? But did we get outhustled tonight....

I wouldn't get carried away with Melo. We blocked him time and again at the hoop. Martin played way over his head....

a 'woops' game. we don't match up well with denver and thankfully won't have to see them again

I didn't see this one or follow it online as this pesky PhD I'm doing is starting to get in the way. Gazing at the box score, I see Tay didn't do a lot on offense. I hope Prince is planning on ratcheting it up for the playoffs. Another poor shooting night from him. Also, the rebounding disadvantage was substantial. Camby was the Windex Man last night. Looks as if the third quarter was the undoing for Detroit. Is McDyess OK? Is he, like some on detnews.com, going through Arroyo Withdrawal?

I have noticed that Dice struggles against his former teams. First NYK, now Denver. He was missing a lot of his usual shots and missed at least 2 layups. I don't know why we never post him up though. I guess it's just Flip's fear of actually scoring on something other than 20 footers and threes.

Dice has trouble getting his shot off when he goes against younger guys of his size. Put a live, big body against him such as Martin and he starts pump-faking his layups, fading on his jumper and doing all sorts of stuff that has me screaming at the TV. It's like his knee is telling him, "Remember when we could jump like that?"

I agree with MW that Chauncey was playing to the hometown folks. Overall Denver reminded me of the Trailblazers from a couple years ago--a bunch of aggressive, emotional athletes who get up for Detroit and pull the Pistons into a bad style.

I HATE losses like that one. Got outrebounded drastically. NO points in the paint. Got killed by high- flying Martin. The rebounding problem should be taken serious it starts to become our weakness- we haven't been crashed on the boards for the first time last night.
Tay's slump is holding on for a very long time. I was worried it would turn out like that- playing great and promising in the final year of the contract and then becoming average material.

You look at the 10 loses that the pistons suffered this year and the Box score is the same all over. Points in the paint, rebounding, and energy. THe same story for each of the loses. One thing that I really didn't like was the 3rd qrt in the first 9 mins it was obvious that the starters did not have it and their was still no subs, and it became to much to over come.

This lose was not as bad, but being outrebounded 55-39 will always equate to a lose. You never want to start a west coast tour with a lose like that because it gives the rest of the teams a model on how to beat you, and with the Pistons if you send 4 guys to crash the boards you will get the rebound because our guards are horrible rebounders, and if Sheed head is not into it he is no good on the boards.

with two games left I think the Pistons can get but they will be much tougher than I originally thought they would be. I thought they would go 3-0 on this trip but to come out 2-1 is okay but they have to beware of the energy factor in these next two games. GO PISTONS!!!!!!!!!

You look at the 10 loses that the pistons suffered this year and the Box score is the same all over. Points in the paint, rebounding, and energy. THe same story for each of the loses. One thing that I really didn't like was the 3rd qrt in the first 9 mins it was obvious that the starters did not have it and their was still no subs, and it became to much to over come.

This lose was not as bad, but being outrebounded 55-39 will always


Correction 59-35 even worse OMG!!!!