Big game boys and girls. The Pistons arrived in Toronto this afternoon, ready to do battle with the Purple Velociraptors.

Gotta watch out for Mo Pete and Mike James. Bosh will get his although letting Mike James run a little wild actually works against the Raps. He has a tendency to do too much at times and ignore his teammates.

Mo Pete is having a career season and probably playing the best defense of his NBA career. His 3 point shooting has been clutch for the dirty birds this year.

The Raps bench is unspectacular, and can be exploited. I'm anxious to see Tony Delk make short work of Jose Calderon like The Low cutting up weak rappers.

High energy game, the Raps like to run and gun, their halfcourt offense is all Mike James and Bosh.

With plenty of rest and practice, let's hope Flip uses his bench to good effect and the battle of playoff rotation minutes between Mo Evans and Carlos Delfino gets off to a rollicking start.

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Bosh logged 44 minutes tonight. Hopefully that jumper will be falling short, since I know the Wallaces despise contesting jumpshots.

Interesting games from Dallas and Miami. Dallas down 19 at halftime and they hold the Cavs to 8 points in the 3rd quarter and pull out a win.

Miami was up 41-14 after the 1st quarter against our nemesis, the Jazz... and rolled em.

The players have got to feel that they are in the stretch run now.

i've watched a lot of the cleveland games, and it's sad. they either blowout a team, or lose. teams always make 20 point come backs. lebron makes the right choices in the game most of the time. the opponent always doubles him in the second half, lebron pases to the open guy but he can't put the ball in the hoop. dallas tied the game at the end of the 3rd even though they were down 19 at the half by outscoring the cavs 27-8!

Check BOSH, not so much on his scoring but his offensive rebounds and we will win this game, no problem.

As for MO PETE and MIKE JAMES, we have plenty of weapons to keep them from scoring. We can have Delk, Hunter, Delf and of course our starters of CB, RIP and TAY to counter them.

Raptors do not have J Rose anymore to match up with us.

I wouldn't say I'm worried but it would appear that miami's win over the pistons has shifted the momentum their way. I thiink Flip has to figure out his rotations and get the guys prepared. Most of all our bench. I just hope the constant tinkering with lineups and unpredictable play time for our bench players isn't going to cause any hard feelings or bad chemistry, that would disrupt the cohesive team dynamic that is obviously one of this teams best advantages. Athough I would expect any player in this league to understand the fact that nothing is guaranteed and you have to work hard to secure your "place" on a team. Especially this team. So obviously I think the pistons are better then the heat but i also think we need our bench strong and confident as we look to take out Miami or any other team that stands between us and the championship. Miami isn't a well rounded team has far has I'm concerned.They do have a few great players who can (has we well know) single-handedly win games. So is everyone looking forward to next wednesday as much has I am? It's still just a regular season game, and it's not our last against miami , but it's sure to be a dogfight to remember.

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This is a game the Pistons have to win. The Pistons need to run the table on the next few games heading to Miami, Indiana.

They should win this game but it will be closer than we think. I think the game flow will be high paced until the 2nd half. The Pistons will have to be strong on the D end to win this game, Toronto can score and if they try to get in a transition game like the Washington game than it can spell trouble.

I think it will be a close game, but it will be high scoring 103-96.

Mike J, 19 points. Let's not let him get hot.