Cleveland Oct 22 7:30PM - Pre season Local tv: none. This is the last game of the local tv blackout. For now on all games ( incl last 2 pre-seasons ) will be televised locally.
I'm glad this is the last game that I will miss. I'm tired of listening to the radio!!! And it's on Cheikh Samb's birthday!! Hopefully we'll shut down [sarcasm]"The King" and his servants[/sarcasm] and also the starters don't log long minutes like they did against Dallas.
Its 12-10 Cleveland. Wow, I had no problem getting the radio feed thru ESPN. I did not even have to log in. I chose the Cleveland feed this time. Maybe that is the difference. 0-2 on threes for us so far. Cleveland 2-2 Mo Williams has 8 of the first 12 points for Cleveland. Tay and Rip have 4 each for us. Our starters are still all in. Amir, Billups, Rip, Sheed, Tay. Mopheard, Mo W., West, Gibson, Z Amir fires inside to Sheed, who is fouled. Sheed hits first. 5:14 to play in first. Sheed ties it at 12-12 Tay steals Tay misses 18 footer while on move Wallace pokes it away. We get ball. Amir misses, in and out, driving inside. West hits 20 footer, in transition Prince to Wallace inside, he misses. We miss tip. West drives, we knock it away OB off Cleveland. Zserbiak in. (sp) Wallace out. Stuckey in. Dyess in. Billups out. Stuckey hits jumper. 14-14 They miss. Johnson gets it in transition, makes, and is fouled. Timeout Johnson misses ft. 16-14 Gibson nails 3 ball. Gibson steals. West drives and scores. Hamilton passes to Stuckey who can't handle it. Turn. We block. Gibson misses. Dyess rebound. Rip 3 misses. Hickson gets blocked, to Cleveland. Kinsey in. Replaces West. Gibson misses 3. Dyess bounds. Prince steps back and misses. Gibson drives, foul on Dyess. Gibson makes first. 20-16 Sheed in for Wallace. Gibson makes 2nd. 21-16 Stuckey drives,spins, scores.
Start of 2nd quarter 21-18 8-20 for Cleveland so far. 14 - 7 for Cleveland on bounds. Amir has 3 blocks Affalalo and Maxiell in. Stuckey, Billups, Afflalo, JMAX, Dyess Hickson misses. Dyess bounds. Dyess hits. Wally drives, fights it in. Dyess hits. 23-22 Kinsey hits 22 footer. Afflalo drives, gets fouled. Side out. JMAX muscles it up, misses but is hacked. JMAX wide left. Way wide left. Missed 2nd too. Afflalo gets bound. Dyess misses. Zerbiak backs in Billups,misses. Foul, charging, on Afflalo. Fouled after he passed the ball. Timeout 25-22 Zerbiak misses. Billups bounds. Foul on Hickson. Holding, off the ball. Afflalo misses 18 footer. Ben Wallace rebounds. They miss. Out of bounds off us. 8:25 to play in half. Kinsey misses 6 footer. Stuckey goes to other end and draws foul. Stuckey makes. Makes. 25-24 Hickson airballs 12 footer. JMAX hits turnaround off feed from Dyess. Zserbiak to Ben, who misses, but they get rebound and score it. Stuckey spins in lane. Ball knocked away but Stuckey gets it back. Stuckey goes in again and makes. They make. Stuckey drives past his guy, Ben Wallace fouls him. Stuckey misses first free throw. Misses again. Billups hanging on to Gibson, foul. Foul on Afflalo. His 2nd. Gibson misses 3.Rebound Ben. Williams misses. JMAX rebounds. JMAX, in and out from top of key. Gibson drives, foul on Hickson on moving pick. Timeout. Stuckey has 8. Dyess, Rip, and Tay have 4 Williams, West, Ben Wallace, Pavolich Rip back in. Prince in. Billups nails 18 footer, putting us in lead. Pavolich drives and scores. Dyess still in. He hits from 15. 32-31 Detroit. They miss. Rip hits. 34-31 us. Ilgauskas misses, but Ben taps it in. Billups, Rip, Tay, Dyess, JMAX Billups misses 3, but Prince bounds and puts it in. Pavolic gets fouled by Dyess. 2:44 to go. Pavolich gets free throws after timeout. 36-33, us Pavolic makes, misses. Rip bounds. Sheed in. Williams drives in transition, gets fouled by Stuckey. First made, and makes 2nd. 36-36 Stuckey,to Prince, to Rip, to Stuckey, who hits from 20 Williams bumped as he shoots. Foul on Stuckey, his 2nd. Williams makes, makes. 38-38 Stuckey goes in, gets it to Maxiell, who misses inside. But is fouled. JMAX misses first. And 2nd. Both bounce off rim. Mophead misses. Rip makes jumper, 40-38 us. Final minute of half. Mo Williams hits, foot on line. Stuckey misses from top of key. Mo Williams misses. West rebounds. Mo Williams misses 3. JMAX bounds. End of half. 40-40
Amir playing really well, having a nice game. Aberration? Cloud? Tay likes to cherry pick. But boy is he great stretching out and finishing awkward one handed layups in slow mo.
Both teams are 3-8 from the line. Not many fouls. Nice flow. It's so refreshing to actually watch a Pistons game.
