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Pistons At Cavaliers
February 27th, 2006 ~ 7:00pm
Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH
TV: TV20 and NBALP
Radio: WDFN

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Your Comments?
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I'll go Pistons 89
KingJ 35
Cavs 50

i have a feeling this will be very close. 88-85 pistons

here we go again :) 95-86 pistons

who else has the feeling that ilgauskas will have a little extra insentive for tonight's game? the cleveland crowd will be in it, and the cavs players will want revenge.

98-90 Pistons.

Chauncey's shooting woes will come to an end at the right time. Look for him to will the Pistons to a victory here.

After last night, this one's gonna have playoff intensity. Bench will need to bring the D when they're in; think Delfino can keep James from going off too bad? :fingerscr

Oh you can feel it, This game will be a hard fought game and I get the feeling that what I thought about yesterdays game will happen tonight at the Q. The Cavs are in desperate straights they have in the back in their minds what has happen in the last two years in the 2nd half of the season.

Detroit in recent has not played well in Cleveland and I would like for them to come out and take the heart of the Cavs. Cleveland always on the other hand play well at home agains't the Pistons. Yesterdays game Detroit bullied Cleveland all game and road it to the win. Cleveland missed alot of open jumpers that may fall tonight so I'm looking at an energy game tonight that Cleveland may pull out. My perdiction for this game I have the Pistons pulling this out 95-92 .

I never had a bad feeling about this game so I think our boys will pull it out.

i'm expecting tayshaun to have a big game tonight. lebron played horrible D on him yesterday and left him open, but tay didn't take advantage of his open shots. i'm looking for him to hit those shots tonight.

Looking forward to this one. I saw the Friday night game in Chicago. I was wearing my Pistons hat, and the locals wanted me to give the Bulls props for not getting slaughtered. It looked like the return of the defense and the fullcourt press. It seemed to really frustrate the Bulls.

Sounds like the Defense was back at the Palace on Sunday, as well.

Ref's call it very tight from the opening whistle and the Pistons run away with it early in 4th, win by 13..

Can't wait to hear the crowd react when Sheed touches the ball.

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Pistons win - by another 12 pack.

Amusing hearing their announcer talking about a "grudge" game. For those who enjoy watching a finely tuned veteran team win this was a good one.

I like the fact that Flip has been using his bench a bit more lately. Even DD has been seeing some minutes.

Maybe we've all been wrong about Flip. Maybe he was just messing with us, not using his bench. Early April fools prank perhaps? :P

Pistons showed tonight that they are not to be toyed with. Rip hit big shots down the stretch, and Chauncey took care of the ball, found rip, and hit the game sealing shot. They showed composure when early on it appeared they had none with the T's. To win back to back games against the Cavs and LBJ is truly a great feat.

They showed the Pacers the other night what they can do when they turn it on, and it improves my confidense in the team come playoff time that they will be able to go out and beat these teams in a night in night out basis.

I think we are really showing something at this stage. We are beating the best competition our division can give us. Pacers, cavs twice now. Oh yea and the Bulls.

we are rollin :heh:

Damon Jones is so "brokeback mountain"! 2 games, 45 minutes , 0 for 7 shots and 0 points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I so hate him so!!!!!:laugh:

Ref's call it very tight from the opening whistle and the Pistons run away with it early in 4th, win by 13..


Wow, nice call.

Pistons could not be denied. LeBron has a long way to go before the MJ comparisons should take place. MJ fought the Pistons for 4 years before he got his shot at the title. LeBron hasn't even made the playoffs yet...

Great defense. As ugly as Hunter is on offense (that part of his game is intact), he just seems to key everything on defense. He instantly changes the tempo of the game once he hits the floor. Although some folks like to overlook hustle, Lindsey's bounce off of LeBron to maintain possession was an important play. Hunter never gives up even if things seem futile.

Tayshaun in a disappearing act on offense again (put some weight on boy!), but he did make timely defensive plays and seemed to get into LeBron's head in the 4th.

Refs tried to hold the Stones back, but they couldn't. I kinda like the whining. I'd just like to see Flipstone do a little more of it to take the pressure off of the starters.

Sheed is so talented. He's still the key to winning a title. When he raises his game, he's probably our best player.

Kudos to Flip for trusting Rip to win the game, calling 2-Chest variants over and over because the Cavs had no answer down the stretch.

Video Highlights

Rasheed Wallace scored 24 and Rip Hamilton added 22 as the Pistons completed a home-and-home sweep of the Cavaliers. (http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/nba/nbacom/recaps/recap_829_detcle.asx)

in case no one else noticed, the pistons held the cavs to 9 points in the 4th quarter

Nice analysis guys (damn nobody to argue with :^)...
Micro, I was trying to think of a PG that has scored on Lindsey yet... I'm sure it's happened... but ya know that's a good sign.

I will always maintain that Prince would be a better fit playing mostly at SG... he generally struggles against the physical SF's... and there's a lot of them in the East.... he expends a lot of energy trying to keep them out of the blocks (rubber legs)...
I'll have to give up the dream of Harrington at SF & Tay backing up both positions.... You can imagine how Tay would post up SG's...he plays a lot of SG's on defense anyways.
It won't get any easier for him on Wednesday if he's matched up against Ruben Patterson.

The officiating hit an all time low tonight... they were determined to call a one sided game.... I'm starting to think there's some truth to something coming down from the league office about the Pistons whining.

n e 1 know if there is video of Sheed laughing at the Illguaskas shove?

The thing to look at about the Pistons whining, is to look at Flip vs. the other coaches in the league. Compared to the other coaches, Flip is the most mild mannered coach ever. He is rarely barking at coaches unless the call is totally obvious. Some coaches are on the ref the entire game. If the coach does this, the players don't really have an excuse to do the same thing. Of course the past couple of years LB was on the officials every single stinking play, and the players still argued a fair amount, but probably not as much as this year. Flip is a mild mannered coach and I believe that helps the Pistons, and hopefully the league sees that and will take away some of those undeserved techs.

I'm glad that sometimes dirty game was won.
Interesting detail from nba.com

Billups had 15 points and 12 assists and Ben Wallace swept 12 boards for Detroit, which shot just 38 percent (33-of-87), was beaten on the boards (42-39) and outscored in the paint (36-20) and in second-chance points (17-12) - and still won rather easily.

You defense only people had to love these 4 last games; putting the screws to Cavs even worse. I think LH still knows how to run an O LB style.
Total pts.= 157, my call 174
himat goes inside and wins!
nice call on the spread G-

It is just so much more demoralizing for a team like the Cavs to lose by getting outmuscled than to lose by getting out-shot. The Pistons are playing more of a playoff style recently. It is good to know that they haven't forgotten.

Looking forward to this one. I saw the Friday night game in Chicago. I was wearing my Pistons hat, and the locals wanted me to give the Bulls props for not getting slaughtered. It looked like the return of the defense and the fullcourt press. It seemed to really frustrate the Bulls.

Sounds like the Defense was back at the Palace on Sunday, as well.

yes it has, the O is still fluid, and the D has kept teams in the mid 80's for a while now.