The team was tired and this was brutal scheduling. No, I am not hurting by this loss but...

There are some recurring problems. Yes, Ernie, we starting off sharing jump shots. Do we really have an offense after two years with this coaching staff? Or, were we just tired?

How often are we getting abused at the center position by good teams? Yes, we often get beat up top, but we look helpless down underneath. Theo, if he has any of his old game at all, will get real minutes I suspect.

How slow can a coaching staff be to make a move, any move?


Still hard to gauge a game with our team tired from the start.

Meh, keeping thinking that the clearly superior team will lose. Not all powerhouses are as dysfunctional as Detroit.

Did anything really go completely right in this game? I didn't watch but the boxscore just screams MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH.

OK, at one point, Tommy Heinson made the remark that this game was one of the best officiated games of the season. Think about that for a minute. Usually you don't notice the refs when a game is called well... but this one was called SOOOO well that it really stood out to him as being something special.

Besides that, our bench got shut down hard core... 62 minutes and 2 FG's for the bench.

As far as I can tell, Chauncey Billups was the only one who put his heart and mind into this game. 15 free throws, 5 rebounds, and 7 assists in a game when we were getting shut down? That is excellent work from him.

On the flip side, our Center took 10 three pointers, only got 4 rebounds, and allowed KG to post a cool 31 points. WTF was that Sheed??? Besides the 3's, he also took some absolutely horrendous long range 2's. He was killing it in the post. Only he and God know why he didn't set up shot down there. We stopped Allen and we contained Pierce, but we needed Sheed to bother KG and he didn't do it. A dozen wide open J's from the free throw line + the easiest little drop ins you've ever seen when he went inside. It's not like Amir, Dyess, or JMax could do any better, but come on Sheed, you're supposed to be the man.

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Ill, I kept wondering why KG has been taunted as MVP all season. He showed his MVP colors tonight dominating our bigs on the inside and hitting the midrange jumpers from the outside. Sheed tried to keep up with him but with 10 three balls and five fouls and no help from the other bigs it was just not enough.

Our defense played tough, but theirs was better. We have played them three times this season and we are averaging a paultry 83.3 points a game. Poor shooting did us in during the 1st and 4th qtarters and their bench spanked ours point wise 15-5. Overall they beat us by 12 points and out rebounded us by 12 boards.. Once again Ray Allen was a no show and they still came out on top...

what i took from this loss:

1. I syill hate Tom Heinsohn

2. Pistons have not won anything since Antonio McDont joined this team.

3. The KPerkins of the world areaveraging 20 rebs a night against this team.

4. We have no bigs with any rear end. We are smaller than all the top3 East teams.

5. rip has never stepped in a big game against big teams. Name ONE big game Rip has shown up in. Plus he hinders Tay's game. Move Tay to Shooting guard and Amir to small forward until he grows up.

6. Herrmann needs a chance..

7. Flip will never lead THIS team to a title.

8. sigh...no excuses...after tonight, Celts ARE a better team. And it wont matter again until we meet them in playoffs

9. I see a real dropoff in the quality of Sheed's play after tonight. What game other than vs Cavs will fire him up?

10. Celtic fans make Piston fans at the Palace look like choir girls. Now THATS HCA!!!!

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Seriously, we have the better PG but it ends there.

Boston has a better team, better playmakers, a better defense, and a better bench. Sadly, maybe even a better coach (Doc is nothing special at all but still more than Flip).

I'm completely hopping on the HQ/The Low bandwagon: Show me something and you'll get my confidence in this team back, and Flip is not the man to show us anything.

I have a new avatar for you after they blow another playoff run....

Rip has over 2,000 playoff points and his playoffs average of 20.7 ppg is higher than his regular season average of 17.9. In fact, the last playoff game we had, Rip was the only one to show up with 29 points on 50% shooting. Our second best player was Webber with 13 points.

In game 5, he had 26 points with 5 assists and 12 free throws. Game 4, 19 points. Game 1, 24 points, 7 assists. (2, and 3 were sub par).

Against the Bulls:
20/ 5 (points/assists)
24/ 6
16/ 3
11/ 5
16/ 5

Against the Magic:
22/ 4
22/ 6 (with 14 FT's)
10
19

He shows up.

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I like #5 Skoo, but what coach would be smart enough to see the need for that?
And pull the string.

We seem to be around a key topic. Perkins had 20 boards. But the guy who was our center was Dyss. He is undersized and slow down underneath on defense. Amir was pushed around too. He did make a key block. Dyss is not really an upgrade from Amir and Amir had problems too tonight. Maxiel has trouble laying the ball in the hoop and is undersized as well. Does Ratliff still have game?

Sheed still kept us in the game despite his shortcomings tonight. Tay was the man last night so I will excuse him for being tired.

Why can't the coach sense Rip is off and sit him for a spell? He doesn't control his players.

Again, questionable offense, poor play at center and slow coaching. Can we overcome this?

On the other hand, we played our cards close to the cuff. I suspect you will see Hunter and maybe afflalo putting big time pressure on their guards. KG can be stopped when it counts and so can Rondo. We didn't show them our stuff.