That's funny, you make me laugh.

Game 6 vs NJ in 04'

Game 7 vs Miami in 05'

Game 5 vs LAL in 04'

All the negative stuff I'm reading in here for the most part is spot on.

1. We don't have guys that can get to the rack and get fouled with regularity, or create for others.

2. We don't have 'power bigs', although that shouldn't really be a concern vs Boston. I don't know why you don't match up Max with fat baby (who is quickly becoming my least favorite player in the world). Athough the corpse of Karl Malone in 04' shut down KG by being physical, with a different interpretation of what is and isn't a foul though...

3. Way too many 3's.

4. Repeat after me Flip "Amir with the other 4 starters", not "Sheed with 4 bench guys".

5. Stop picking up weak offensive fouls C$, and why does the ball movement have to stop vs good teams? (see Playoffs 2006, 2007)

6. Now the "no rest" and "gimpy sheed" and "weak foul trouble on Sheed/Dyess" are all legit excuse/reasons but this was a no excuse game.

7. We can't stop dribble drives, even though you have no reason to respect Rondo's J, you still can't check him? As soon as we help they are dropping dimes to guy who aren't even NBA caliber bigs for shots even they can't F up. Powe's playing on one knee, Davis is waste of 9,999 calories per day, Perkins in the homeless man's Rick Mahorn.

8. Speaking of Karl Malone doing a good job on KG, I'd like to see Hermann get a crack at him. PS. 99% of the time he's taking one dribble L and pulling up for a J.

9. We "ONCE AGAIN" (because Joe didn't alter the roster with truly playoff ready guys, maybe if Stuckey had a whole season and Amir got the experience of CWebb's burn last year) are a 3rd or 4th place team instead of a championship team.

10. As far as "futures" PJ Brown + Cassell is way better than Theo + Old man River Hunter.

Twice for sure, and maybe once more I remember Tay backing someone down, getting swarmed, and then tossing the ball out to Sheed behind the three point line with only a couple of seconds on the clock. Yeah, Sheed probably took too many threes, but a fair number were good looks and at least a couple came from someone else bailing out on him. Without those maybe he finishes 3-7 from three?

- Looks like the Dixon new team shooting honeymoon is over. And his Hunter impersonation is not working yet.

- Bring back Affalo.

- Bad time for Rip to slump.

- How many Piston shots in the first six minutes didn't even draw iron?

- Pistons won 75-73 after going down 17-3. 75-61 if you don't count the beginning and the end.

- Darn Detroit weather.

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Seems like one of those 2 is at least critically important.

Coffee is for closers. Something we used to excel at, and other than one drawn foul Boston has absolutely OWNED us down the stretch in all 3 games.

Looks like Flip held true to form in terms of offense over defense. Again Afflalo (who was a major factor in the ONLY game we won against BOS) didn not play. I knew he would fall in love with Dixon and his bad defense as soon as he hit a shot.

Amir needs to start. Dyess is killing us at that spot. Maybe Theo really does have something left.

I didn't watch the game, b/c i knew we would lose, and i didn't want to aggravate myself over it (although i't didn't really work, i'm mad now).

20 rebounds for Big Baby Davis. It's nice to know our coaching staff can make adjustments.

From what i get from the recap, we didn't score for the last 5 min of the game or so. It's not suprising. Our late game execution has been atrocious for the most part, and is covered up by our many blow-outs. We can't hold a lead, or take a lead. Jumpshots, Jumpshots, Jumpshots.

back to back + Flip's inexpt coaching = BOS win

You'd think he'd know/or have some kind of strategy or knowledge on bothering KG since he coached him for i don't know 8 years. Sheed didn't step up form what i'm reading either and he's hurt ?

Also the thing about the Zoo Crew was that the defense was spectacular. They always had trouble scoring unless it was in transition. Taking Afflalo and putting Dixon in is going to negate that. Someone needs to tell Flip AA can stop dribble penetration.

edited to add;

We have one of the best record in the league when outrebounding an opponent. Guess who else does?? I'll give you a hint 50-38.

I don't remember him saying that, but even though he sucks, I thought even Tommy would notice how horrible the refereeing was on both ends. There were about 7 or 8 appallingly bad calls against the Pistons, but probably 5 or 6 against Boston as well.

We use to excel at it because we had an excellent coaching staff that was also able to control the players.

I remember someone asked me to give them one reason i think the Pistons can't win in the post-season and it's simple; They're undisciplined.

I was looking forward to this game, and it stunk.

I could go on and on, but I'm exhausted. The finger pointing and blame, exhausting. Missed shots, no rebounding, personnel issues, exhausting.

The only good thing to come out of this game, is that I have crystallized my intense dislike (trying to remove the word hate from my vernacular) for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett.

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So much of the Boston role players (the bench) not being deep enough to win it all, but after 3 games, they outplayed our bench every game. Not only scoring wise but every other stat.

Agreed that AA should have played in this game, not Dixon.

For me it's Rajon Rondo. I liked it when Maxiell gave him that hard foul.