i'm thinking this cigar should be left in the wrapper.

Miami's FTs and three-point makes were nonexistent. Man, it sounds like their offense, except for Shaq, sucked. I have a feeling Ron Jeremy Van Gundy doesn't make it through the season. I hope he still talks to his porn pals in SoCal so he can find work.

Maybe we can pick him up for the coaching staff.

I don't think Stan Van Gundy is going to last very long. I mean did you notice that half the time he wasn't even paying attention to the game? Here he is hamming it up for the crowd.

http://www.meltzner.net/images/jeremy2.bmp

[roscoe: Bills, I had to change your pic to a link. It was scaring folks from posting. Sorry.]

I have a major problem with that picture. For a coach of the team that wants to be the best team in the east, he's setting a bad example.

First off, he's thumbing his nose at the new dress code!!!

Just look at all that BLING on his arm. Other than that, he looks great.

Man...I said "Darth don't you open that picture...don't do it...you know what you're gonna see..." But I just had to do it, ya know.

No worries. I should regain full use of my eyes before the season opener.

Is that VG's natural hair pattern? Or did he manscape?

Bills- I have also heard about some problems VanGundy is having. He is going to have a lot of them with Walker from what I could tell. Real fun watching Walker trying to take over a play only to get it blocked or stripped by one of the Wallace's.

Crucial mistake leaving Posey in during garbage time where he received what appeared to be a dislocated finger or a wrist injury.

It was the Shaq show for Miami but thats all they had. Only pre-season but the starters were at full steam and seemed to want to send Miami a message that they still are the team to beat. Rip talked about this in the post-game stating that everyone is favoring Miami.

Not too much to complain about from the Piston side. Rip and Tay got off to good games so all starters have had good games at some point during the 5 pre-seasons.

Delfino was very impressive off the bench and won Blaha/Lamb's sub of the game honors. Darko looked good but got some cheapies whistled against him on Shaq. Still Darko continues to show no fear at all when paired against 2 of the toughest front-line guys like Shaq and Zo.

Just a great entertaining game with the bench continuing to gell. Now pretty much just Dyess has to get his legs back and a choice has to be made between Dupree and Evans for the regular rotation spot. Evans is the clear leader.

On a minor note both Johnson and Acker played very smart out there in their limited time.

So we shouldn't keep Hunter on the roster because of a preseason game where Miami stunk. I see. That's quite an extrapolation.

I do agree that Miami has not upgraded itself. I think they will be better this year than they played tonite, but they have subtracted their two best perimeter shooters in favor of a bunch of players who all need the ball in their hands to be effective.