As a person tagged as a Flip-hater, I have to say that this was a great job. He said this was the game plan. They executed it. They won. I don't mind not seeing my pet player in the second half as the starters were on a roll in a crucial moment. Flip M. did a very good job.

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Hate is the path...

Darthifying the board wasn't that hard the first time....DARTH SPROCKET!

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Well I was torn. I try not to hate, but I really don't like sitting around in swamps either.

motown suggested r2dba2 but I resisted.

A lil Flip luv?
OOps, musta landed in the wrong forum... now where did that damn PF go?

It takes the average fan 3 months to come around on a dramatic opinion shift. We should be approaching the point of reasonability by January.

Still not a buyer of Flip, we haven't beaten a team with a winning record during the streak, his rotations are driving me crazy, and his refusal to change anything from last year, or even learn anything from last year make me want to scream.

My 2 cents:
Murray did look good, only a couple of blackhole moments, LH is fine as long as he doesn't shoot, and I don't know why Saunders doesn't let Delfino run with the small ball unit, every now and then, instead of Murray.

BTW, Murray and Delfino played well together. For whatever reason, Hunter and CB continue to look off Delfino. CB I understand, he won't pass it to Murray, either, but Hunter shouldn't be looking off anyone.

Darko showed the way, not let's free Brahma, Blaylock, and Amir!

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PopcornMachine's GameFlow - Detroit @ Miami

Since I've been posting the gameflows on the Magic games, it is only fair that I take a look at the Stones Flow.

First of all, if you look at Miami, the numbers tell us what we already know, Walker and Kopono got torched while Mourning was their most effective player.

The Piston's side of the equation is a little more complicated since the starters didn't comingle with bench to give different combinations. Still, of the starters, Prince looks like he was most valuable.

And of course, the bench outplayed the starters with Dyess and Flip Murray proving to be the keys.


Also, if you look at the box score tab, Rip was the most efficient and Sheed provided the most help (hv). Somehow, Delfino looks like he gave the highest production value... although I don't see how that's possible... or how it's calculated.

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"I’ll just say this: We’re not talking to teams about their second- or third-best players." Joe Dumars talking about his plan to get other teams' 4th best players.

I'm confused. If I'm reading this correctly it says that as a whole the starters had a negative effect on the game versus the reserves. The reserves played well, but not that well.

Right now, the only popcorn making sense to me is Orville Redenbacher.

That's the average fan....