At Chicago Nov 8 8PM - Detroit Pistons Fan Community

max · #1 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 03:09 AM

At Chicago Nov 8 8PM

tv: TNT

Have to wait until Thurday for the next Pistons game. Welcome rest for the team.

Delfino Delivers · #2 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 08:38 AM

Gives Amir some of that practice time that the coach is requiring before he can get on the floor.

BillLaimbeer · #3 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Delfino Delivers

Gives Amir some of that practice time that the coach is requiring before he can get on the floor.

Amir's absence in recent games is because of an injury. If he is going to be an important piece to the team, why rush him back?

roscoe36 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 09:48 AM

Amir played against Orlando. He looked fine, just a little unprepared for NBA tempo action.

jzchen · #5 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 10:19 AM

Read it over at mlive that Big Ben is not healthy. Anyone knows why?

BillLaimbeer · #6 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by roscoe36

Amir played against Orlando. He looked fine, just a little unprepared for NBA tempo action.

I read that he had some swelling and soreness after the Orlando game. When healthy, i think Amir is NBA-ready for major minutes. I've got an AHOF membership card. I'd like to see him getting 15-20 mpg. I'd hate to see a setback because he was rushed back into action, though.

TaShawn · #7 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by jzchen

Read it over at mlive that Big Ben is not healthy. Anyone knows why?

He sprained an ankle in the pre-season against the Bucks. Maybe he has been playing through it and it hasn't healed yet.

He's been terrible, so I hope that it is because of the ankle.

Ben is averaging 3.7 rebounds in 30 minutes of PT. Tyrus Thomas is getting 8 rebs in the same about of time.

Ben is shooting 36% from the floor and 38% from the line.

He has 3 defensive rebounds in 90 minutes this year! Mugsy Bogues could do that.

Warthog · #8 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 10:58 AM

i know this is the chicago thread, but the atlanta game was not the right one to put him in. now he'll have a full 4-5 days of rest for that ankle before the chicago game.

mikhail1973 · #9 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by roscoe36

Amir played against Orlando. He looked fine, just a little unprepared for NBA tempo action.

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Third-year forward Amir Johnson saw his first playing time this season in the final five minutes of the Pistons' win over the Magic. Johnson missed all but one game of the preseason with a sprained ankle, and soreness in his Achilles tendon has limited his practice time since then.
Johnson had that left foot iced after the game. He finished with two points, four rebounds, a block, and a turnover.

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basketbills · #10 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 12:15 PM

Ben's injury sounds like it could be worse than just a sprain:

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If you think Ben Wallace hasn't looked like himself in quietly amassing just nine rebounds, three blocks and zero steals in the Bulls' first two losses, that's because he says he isn't.

Asked if the sprained left ankle that slowed him late in preseason is affecting his jumping, Wallace cocked his eyebrow and gave a telling response.

"Ain't been doing no jumping," Wallace said.

Wallace barely played in the second half of Friday's home loss the 76ers because of his inactivity, not injury. But Wallace said he still is icing and using a stimulation device daily on his ankle.

"When I stop and try to plant, it don't feel stable," Wallace said.

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