truly i have not seen the pistons defense yet, sure the offense looks a hell of a lot better but the pistons for the last 4 or 5 games only turned up there defense in the 3rd and 4th quarters (phoenix, portland, boston, and dallas). if the pistons keep this flip offense and play there defense they'll be great. yes the pistons beat phoenix, portland, and boston, but that kind of play won't always work as shown in the dallas game. the way the piston players are reacting especially tayshaun prince i am expectiong us to shutdown the nuggets today. i have seen so many quotes from tay about how the pistons are expecting too much help and that everyone needs to play harder D on there man. today i think it will be Tayshaun who leads us to victory by shutting down Melo than the rest of the pistons will get back to there d. Player of the game: Tayshaun Prince 15 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, and keeping melo to 9 points mainly of free-throws. I want to see some Deeeetroit basketball today! who's with me.

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I think you may be right about Detroit turning up the heat on defense. I was thinking the same thing but I don't know how fast they can turn it on & off.

Anyhow, I hope it happens because I am playing against Carmello & Camby in our fantasy league and they are not being kind to me so far.

The Nugs like to work inside... they are last in the association at 3 pointers @ 19 %... we should force them to shoot outside.
They attempt at least 4 lobs per game so we have to watch this closely.
Kmart may be back tonight.
Anytime Elson is in the game we can sag off him (he can't shoot)
Melo is in better condition this year... he likes to force contact and go for the and ones.
If they don't put Camby on Sheed then the Nugs have no answer for him... if they do go for this match up then Sheed can draw their shot blocker/rebounder out of the paint.
Nugs coming off a game last night we should play up tempo from the start.
Rip should have a big game tonight.

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With politicians the future lies ahead

So they talk about bringing the D in the early part of the game. Let's hope they do.

I thought that Darko could have had some good match ups in previous games. I don't know about this game.

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I say the Pistons get serious tonight Det. 94 Den. 85.

Go Pistons!!!!!

count me in! I want to see some good defensive play tonight. I hope they make good on all the issues Tayshaun has been talking about the last few days.

if the pistons don't make a conscious effort to attack the boards camby will eat us alive. thats not such a bad thing for my fantasy team, but in the non-fantasy world we need to REBOUND!

back at home now, time to remember what our bread and butter is. allow only 1 shot, and get in their face.

pistons to flush these nuggets down the toilet and out of the building 98-90

The Nuggets don't scare me as much in the post Rodney White era. When RW was with the team no lead against them was safe because at any time he could come in and light it up.

Last November 11th they whipped us 117-109.Rodney went off for 13 points and Boykins chipped in 32 and Melo helped out with 34.

http://basketballreference.com/teams...0041111&tm=Den

I'm picking the exact reverse score for this game, a year later....without White the Nuggets fall 117-109 and we still don't see true Piston's defense.