CB was unbelievable in the third, and 'Sheed I thought really stepped up in the fourth (again).

Kudos to Arroyo as well. That fourth-quarter run was made with him running the point and CB on the bench.

Yep. Flip was true to his word. Darko played "more". I was wrong.

The last time we played Boston Darko only played 4 minutes. This time he played 5 minutes.

Another Piston win.

7-0 sure feels good!

I wouldn't mind it if they just won the game from the start instead of having to always kick it into high gear near the end.

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Our PG combo dominated... Sheed and Rip woke up.

Now the real test begins.

I want to see Darko get more PT but this Maxiell looks like he is ready for some NBA PT.

Agreed... he gives the confidence that Darko lacks... but we have to project Darko in two more years.

I know the team should lock doen a little bit better in the start, but in their defense SA gave the ATL a 55 point start to, including 31 1st qtr pts. Now they have opend a 15 point lead in the 3rd, so a good team can role this way........i guess.

1st half

So far, our starters have done quite poorly. The best unit out there was Evans with the other four starters besides Rip. The starters themselves are minus for the game by quite a bit, way too prone to shoot outside shots, and not hustling back on defense.

The bench. Hard to say. Each player was brought in, and then was off the floor not too much longer. Darko got burnt by Jefferson a few times, but then stopped him. And then Darko was at the offensive board getting a couple of tap back tries. And then he was out of the game. Darko also had one offensive rebound putback too.

Delfino hardly was in there to say much about him. Arroyo hit a couple of shots. Missed one of two free throws. We used 10 players, but by the end of the half, Ben Wallace did not get much rest. Dyess played some too, did nothing.

Rip missed his first couple. Tay has missed a few outside shots. Ditto for Sheed. Billups on the other hand has only shot a couple of times and has a pair of made threes already. Well, we go to the hot hand. Maybe thats going to be CB in the next half.

I strongly suggest Flip go to a whole 2nd unit going in all at once. What he is doing instead looks pretty helter skelter. A constant different mix of players. Just an opinion. Rip has hit some shots, but note, its the long range stuff he is hitting well. GO PISTONS!!!!!

Game report

Fun one to watch for sure. CB just flat out took it over in the 3rd quarter. But still, CB could not get a lead all by himself. Boston kept hitting shots. Thats where Arroyo comes in. By the time Arroyo left, a full 6 minutes into the 4th quarter, we had the game in hand. Not won yet, but you could certainly see that we were on our way. Another outstanding game by Arroyo. Wonder if anyone out there noticed amongst his detractors. Probably not. Probably going to need to see this what, ten more times. Maybe it will start sinking in. Arroyo is pretty darn good. On a fast break, they had the other guys covered. So swish. Twice in the game he stole the ball. Just flat out decided to help the other guy dribble and came up with the ball. Ran fast breaks well. Several assists. And that defense. Boston rarely scored while CA was in the game.

We ended up with just a bit of garbage time, but other than that, and 20 seconds for Delfino at the end of the 3rd quarter, we just used Evans, Dyess, and Arroyo as subs in the 2nd half. Sure, our bench only got 16 points in this one while the game still counted, but it did a great job, taking our 3rd quarter comeback and stretching it into a win.

Dyess did little in this game. Just rested Ben and Sheed and thats about it. He did get that fast break dunk on an assist from Carlos Arroyo though. Ben made some key free throws late. Notice, he did not fade back a bit on those babies. Keep that up Ben and they will all soon start dropping.

You got to go back to Carlisle to why we won this one. Boston was shooting great. But we got physical as all get out in the 2nd half. Ben of course led the effort, but look at Rip right up Davis' shorts. CB muscling West. Etc. We played good solid physical basketball in the 2nd half and shut Bostons water right off.

Pierce showed himself to be quite a player. So did Tay. I will call it a draw for the night. But Ben sure as advertised helped out his friend tonight. Pierce managed to get past Tay. But Pierce had to put his head down and use every trick he had to get by Tay. But wait, keeping your head down with Ben lurking? Bad move. Ben sent that shot packing.

In the 2nd half also we saw the fruits of practice, practice, practice. In the game. Sheed went inside a lot in the first Boston game. With little success. He went inside in the first half tonight. With little success. And in the 2nd half tonight, no success the first couple of tries. But then he got comfortable. Got in rythm. And he went to town inside. And still managed to nail a big triple during our comeback. PS, Arroyo's shot gave us the lead.

Evans hit a shot. He was part of that rally late 1st half, and he was part of our rally to put us ahead for good. No, I can't recall any details really except he was there battling and the team was doing well around him.

Oh, but I did forget one thing about Evans. He finished a fast break with quite a dunk, showing his ability to really go vertical.

1st half, too many shots. But really, was it too many shots, or that we were just not making them. Oh well, one thing does not work, you go another way. Inside scoring by Sheed, and CB taking it inside a lot, was featured heavily in the 2nd half.

CB was brilliant, making several conventional 3 point plays. One on a falling down shot where he must have shot from about 2 feet off the ground it seemed. His other shot along that lines before that was prettty impressive too, just forgotten after the much more spectacular 2nd one.

115 points. Wow. 7-0. Double wow. And Darko got some more important, in game when it counts minutes. Four times now and no losses from it. Amazing. Love it. Want more of it. GO PISTONS!!!!!

They picked it up in the fourth quarter with 38 points, but they won't be able to do that against the better defensive teams (Indiana, San Antonio). Also, lots of minutes for the starters again and not that much help from the bench. Sound familiar? I could've written the starters/bench sentence last season (and I did). C-Note was great. Dickou was his beetch big time.

Carlos played very solid this game. He showed that he has alot of heart. Probably the most agressive D I've ever seen from him. The Pistons just murder people in the 4th quarter now. I agree though, they need to work on putting together a full 48 mins of Detroit Pistons ball. 7-0 does feel extremely good.