Well I guess Joe had a talk with the players on the way home last night and they played with a little more conviction. If he told Flip to play AJ, Flip still ignored him by not putting him until the game was in hand and was pretty much over.

How do you expect AJ to learn when he has to play out there with shoot first-pass later Flip jr and tonight's post-up and paint star of the Nazmo The 4th quarter was all garbage time and although the Pistons scored 20 points they went at least 5 mins at one stretch trading rebounds.

Naz scored 15 pts and went to the line 8 times.

Other Pistons highlites: Rip 10 assists, Cb six three pointers, Dyess 7-7 from the field in the first half. Max 8 boards. Once again Tay was just there......??

Good comeback win on the second night of a back to back and statment that you are still a team to be reckon with by knocking off an undefeated team. Kaman got off scoring wise, in front of family and friends, but was not able to dominate the boards like he had done in his first four games. Sam E.T Cassell who had 37 points vs the Pacers Wednesday was held to 4 tonight. No Cuttino Mobley and other than Kaman, a lot of misses by Tim Thomas and Al Thorton.

here is the missing picture that was shown earler...Pistons 98-Clippers 80
3/11/07 at Staples Center


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Fixed your pic Dre and added a link at the bottom to the full size image.

One final thought on AJ's play in tonights game.

It appeared to me that he is still not near to being healthy. He said he was 95%. but he may have been talking about the pain and swelling.

As far as his hops go they appeared to me to be about 75% at the most of what they were last year when I saw him play. He also did not seem to have the same spring or antler like gallop in his running as I have seen before.

It could be that he was tentative because he hasn't played very much in live games since last spring.

What ever the reason he still does not look near to 100% of his physical capabilities.

Thanks Roscoe!

Is it just me or do Nazr and Flip tend to chuck in garbage time? Seems like anytime Nazr gets a pass, you can bet it's heading toward the rim.

Detroit had a huge rebounding edge tonight: 53-33.

No, it's not just you. It's just Nazr. And to the lesser extent Flip.

i can't complain about the starters' minutes and i can't complain about the blow out. I can only complain about Rip's issue with the refs. Come on, this affects the whole team's spirit.

Maybe with Sheed being more quiet, Rip will follow the suit.