SIMULATED at Golden State Warriors Wednesday Nov 9

This West coast trip will allow the squad to bond with the newcomers and rookies Brandon Knight, Vernon Macklin, and Kyle Singler. Bonding? That will happen. Winning? Maybe not.

It's half time and the Pistons are down 9 due to some hot shooting by Monta Ellis and Steph Curry who already have 15 and 12 points respectfully. The Pistons lone bright spot is Rodney Stuckey who is the only Piston in double figures with 13 pts.

JJ continues to show that the year off in rehab has worked as he has already grabbed a game high 12 boards at the half (7 offensive). Pistons will need to shut down the Warrior guards and get one of their bigs untracked offensively to get back into this game!!

I don't know if I can pretend to watch the rest of this game. Seriously, the only defender worse than Charlie V is imaginary Charlie V. This guy might as well be handing out chips and sodas in the lane, because he sure ain't guarding any one. Seriously, I didn't even know that Radmonovic was still in the league, and he's on track to score 24 tonight.

That was a good overtime win for the Pistons who improve to 2-3. Good way to start the west coast trip. Hopefully they have something left in the tank for the next two games. In all honesty though, I cannot believe they pulled off a win after the poor start. Frank has his work cut out for him as we still remain *the* team against whom the agents want to showcase bigs. David Lee had another 20-10 game with 27 pts and 12 rebounds. If he hadn't fouled out with 3 minutes to go, we wouldn't have won this game.

What's up with Greg Monroe? 6 pts and 8 rebounds? That ain't gonna cut it. He seems to play with less confidence this year for whatever reason.

JJ with a game high 18 rebounds. If only he could back it up with some decent scoring as he went 1-7 from the field. At least he hit his fritos though.

Knight was impressive down the stretch and it was a pleasant surprise that Frank kept him in the game during overtime. He never would've seen the floor after the 3rd under Quester. The scary thing is he seems to have good chemistry with Rip. Do we keep Hamilton & Knight and unload Gordon & Stuckey?

None of the rookies other than Knight saw any action. Well, Singler was in the game for 0.3 seconds at the end of the second quarter, but I'm not counting that.

Unfortunately for us, the highlight of the game was that sick block by Monta Ellis on Chaz Garbage. Seriously, if you're 6'11" and you're posting up a 6'3" guard, you dunk on him. Or at least you shoot over him. I don't know whatever that thing CV did is called, but it wasn't a basketball move. That block really started the big Golden State rally in the third.

Overall I'm optimistic about the future though. If we can undo the CV and Ben Gordon mistakes, and get a quality big in return, we may do some damage in the playoffs.

Last night was just the 4th game that the Pistons haven't played. They were 1-2 in games not played heading into last night's virtual game.

That's right. So, that puts us at 2-2. Lawrence Frank has matched Quester's performance in his 1st season so far.

Good write up Walter....I finally got into the Jimmy Kimmel studio and was hoping when the show was over and I came out, the Pistons would have come all the way back from that 9 point halftime deficit and won.

We should count Walter's vote and call this a Pistons win.

Does anyone know when Terrico White is expected back from his foot injury?

Those 18 boards from JJ were great. He seems stronger than before the injury and he can most likely get his leg even further up the wall.

Pistons Frank locked in cell, left at Alcatraz overnight

I spit green tea out of my nose reading this.