Pistons At Bucks ~ November 26th, 2005

Pistons At Bucks
November 26, 2005 ~ 9:00pm
The Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI
TV: Local Only Radio WDFN

-- Box Score --

Flip Saunders - On bouncing back after last night’s loss:
“I thought defensively we were good. They beat us up on the boards early but we were able to bounce back and get stops. I thought our bench also gave us minutes. The thing I was most concerned with tonight was our energy. ”

Chauncey Billups - On defending Michael Redd down the stretch:
“He’s a tough cover. Anytime he gets the ball up he has a chance to make it. I wanted to just try and be physical with him.”[table=350][tr=alt2][td]Points:[/td][td](DET) R. Hamilton, 20
(MIL) M. Redd, 23
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[tr=alt1][td]Rebounds:[/td][td](DET) B. Wallace, 18
(MIL) J. Magloire, 17[/td][/tr]
[tr=alt2][td]Assists:[/td][td](DET) C. Billups, 7
(MIL) M. Williams, 4[/td][/tr]
[tr=alt1][td]Blocks:[/td][td](DET) Two tied, 2
(MIL) J. Magloire, 2[/td][/tr]
[tr=alt2][td]Player of the Game
Chauncey Billups
Points: 17
Assists: 7
FTM-A: 4-4
Minutes: 37[/td][td][/td][/tr][/table]

Dale Davis

Well, I hope that Dale is ready for tonight. With Dyce limping and Sheed playing major, major minutes last night, Dale will be called upon. It is certain that Larry, oops, I mean Flip, will not call upon Darko.

So, Dale, good luck tonight.

I am glad to see they let Carlos Arroyo work through his rough spots as he is certainly a contributor now. He is now a dependable part of the team. Glad to see that he, at least, has gotten his chance, and that he make the most of it.

Tonight will be my last chance to see the Pistons this season on a regular basis as we are on the way to Florida. We just get a few games down there, the Piston games when Miami and Orlando are involved and the ones on national tv.

So I will be depending on you guys for my first hand knowledge. Keep up the good work, guys.

please let us win tonight. milwaukee is on the 2nd game of a back-to-back as well, losing the 1st game...so that should be interesting. all i know is that tj ford has been playing terrible according to my fantasy stats and i've been benching him :P

pg's in the paint

Ford has not been playing well, but I think he is the kind of player capable of testing the Pistons. Even last year, the Pistons didn't always do a good job of keeping quick pg's out of the paint. That problem still seems to be there this year. Whatever else he may or may not be good for, Lindsay seemed to me to always do a good job with that. I'm not so sure that Chauncey or Carlos can do the same with Ford. Once he's in the paint, Redd sets up for 3s and Bogut and others can get free for easy inside baskets. If our guards can keep Ford in front of them, I think that'll make the rest of the team easier to defend.

battle of the broken noses

rotfl

and luckily i've sat him the past two turnovers, fg %, and personal fouls count in our league, which are his drawbacks to live with in return for a lot of assists and steals.

the thing is, the league i play in is kind of jacked - there's only 1 player per position + 1 utility, rotisserie max 82 games...so the bench hardly even matters - and i already have nash at PG, along with terry and hinrich to choose from.

yah i hadn't played fantasy before so i didn't know what to expect, plus the dude said we had until a specific to set our desired draft order, but then closed it 2 days early and yahoo basically auto-picked half of everyone's teams. oh and technical fouls count too...heh.

be safe, my bruddah

We'll get u a goinaway present tonight...pistons go old school...88-83!

Penetration

I don't care if we give up penetration all night, cause we will still challenge the shots. I just want the guys who are run past to get in there and rebound. We must limit the second chances.

Bottom line

We must win.

Realistically, we must be in every game. Or at least try to be. We're tired, they're tired so let's see who comes up big and gets the win and I'm hoping it's us.

Did I miss something? Why can't Darko play tonight?

i think tonight will be the night when darko gets some semi major burn. the bucks will probably not go small and that's the perfect lineup for flip to play darko against. if he doesn't play darko this game then we will be sure that something is up. major minutes for the bigs last game, dice gimpy this is the perfect oppurtunity for darko to get some minutes and show what he has. i'm also hoping jmax gets in there for a little bit of meaningful minutes.

Now Wave

Quit being a hater. lol

not a block but definitely an alteration. 3 blocks in 1 quarter is still pretty good. darko is patrolling the paint and the league and definitely the bucks will have to take notice.

darko blew the nice move in the paint but i'm still happy he shot it and had deep position. he's had a pretty good showing in early minutes. as much bad stuff is said about darko i think it's only fair the announcers get behind him a little bit. bill walton made several cracks about darko when he was doing the game just because he doesn't know what type of player darko is now that lb is gone. the league will know soon.

Bill Walton is an idiot.