Detroit At Dallas - 8:30PM

TV: WDIV
Radio: WDFN

The 6-2 Maves are on a routine and very comfortable home stand. Their last 2 games have been wins against Denver and Atlanta on the 15th and 17th. Mavs offense was down in those 2 scoring only 83 and 87 points respectivly.


Injuries:
Mavs: Jerry Stack House - Right Knee. Has not played yet this year.
Doug Christie - Sore Left Ankle
VanHorn - Sprained Middle Finger.

Pistons - None

Notes: Pistons will have to get out of the mini rebounding funk ( out rebounded by more than 10 in 2 of the last 3 games ) to pull this one out tonight. Dampier, Diop, Josh Howard and VanHorn ( if he plays ) will try to get the Mavs as many 2nd chance opportunities as possible. Besides that try and limit Terry and keep Dirk on the outside and I think we got this one. They will miss VanHorn if he does not play as he has been off to a great start this season with 14.1 PPG and 6.4 RPG.

Sure its a back-back and a very likely ending to the winning streak but don't count out the fact that the team must be aware of Cleveland breathing down their knecks in the standings and if you look at it as just another winning streak the team record still stands at 13.

Dallas Scouting Report of this game



Some extra motivation: In the last pre-season game the Mavs pretty much used their standard rotation against Flips 13-guy pre-season choice for a cheap pre-season victory against the Pistons 103-97.
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Mavs 119 Pistons 82

Here is the box for that pile

BoxScore - From nba.com

this is going to be a very very close game decided by 1 call, i just feel like thats how the game will be.

I know the players can't afford to get ahead of themselves, but I feel it's fine for us fans to: IF they win tonight, I can see the Pistons going 11-0 for sure - with wins over Denver and the Wizards. Anybody want to comment on that?

This will be the best litmus test so far of how good the Pistons really are. Beating Dallas on the road would be huge.

I'll comment. Mark it down as a loss. (But I missed both of my college football predictions today so hopefully I'm off here too)!

It's a back to back road game against a good team who has had a full days rest. The Pistons have a bullseye on their back. The Pistons like to mess around for 3 quarters before getting serious.

Blowout for Dallas.

Dallas 106 Detroit 92

Thanks for the 8 game streak guys!

Looks like the Pistons forgot how to defend. This is ugly early 13-3 Dallas.

Tayshaun is playing like CRAP!

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Obviously the fast pace and the road have caught up with the starters. Dice, Evans and Arroyo have to deliver or it is a long trip back to Motown

Glad I'm not watching this. It's gotta be ugly.