Pistons and Mavs play on the Super Bowl undercard

The Pistons host the Mavericks this afternoon, a nice little appetizer to tonight’s big game. Ball tips at about 2:30, and it’s a national game (ABC) for all you out-of-towners. I’ll be at the Palace with pre-game, halftime and post-game reports for HOOPSWORLD, and as usual, feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments.

48 Responses to “Pistons and Mavs play on the Super Bowl undercard”


  1. 1 Mark B.

    Maxey’s back!

    I hate the broadcasters on national tv…

  2. 2 Quick Darshan

    Stuckey’s getting a bit of attitude. Not sure I like it. He had some glares for Jordan Farmar last game too.

    Just play, kid. You haven’t done anything yet.

  3. 3 piñon lopez

    had a good breakfast this morning?
    yeah he had about 3 babies!

  4. 4 piñon lopez

    (in reference to announcers asking what Maxiell ate this morning and why he’s exploding at the hoop)

  5. 5 piñon lopez

    great hustle by the stones. shame on the foul trouble on amir but thats energy for you.. 2 of his fouls were lousy that bordered on giving dallas the benefit of the doubt. where is everyone? being on the west coast i was able to have a pistons and pancakes breakfast this morning for an 11:30 start time

  6. 6 gordbrown

    I was going to say that, you beat me to it PL

  7. 7 Quick Darshan

    Already in the bonus. This is going to be a rough quarter.

  8. 8 piñon lopez

    SOLID!

  9. 9 Quick Darshan

    There’s no way Hayes can guard Nowitzki.

  10. 10 Mike Payne

    pinon, i’m here- but stuck refreshing the box score. i found out 15 minutes before the game my local ABC affiliate is playing iowa women’s college basketball instead of the F234ing pistons game. I’m furious…

    trying my damnest to find a chinese tv feed playing the game.

  11. 11 piñon lopez

    amigo
    http://www.channelsurfing.com

    should do you well
    use IE

  12. 12 Quick Darshan

    Dyess hasn’t hit a fifteen footer in a month.

  13. 13 piñon lopez

    http://www.channelsurfing.net/ .NET not, .COM.. but yes that should do you.

  14. 14 Boney

    im sorry, leading with your foot while driving for a dunk is not impressive

  15. 15 Mike Payne

    Hey Pinon, will you marry me?

  16. 16 Mike Payne

    in a hetero kind of way…

  17. 17 IsraeliPiston

    langlois from the pistons is suppossed to be doing a live chat
    anyone have the link

  18. 18 piñon lopez

    i feel ya.
    i fiddled with crazy feeds i had to click in the first minute they were posted that would die in the middle and then chinese software that i couldn’t understand.

    that site now saves me!

  19. 19 piñon lopez

    just me or a lot of cheap fouls on the pistons newbies?

  20. 20 Quick Darshan

    Not a bad 2nd quarter considering Dallas was in the bonus with ten minutes left.

  21. 21 Boney

    Sauce would be happy with Amir Johnson’s 1st half statistics… surprised he’s not here raining on anyone’s parade.

  22. 22 Quick Darshan

    Let’s hope Rip’s leg bruise is loosened up for the 2nd half.

  23. 23 Ohad

    first time this season i get to see a stones game live. hurray!
    if rip got those two layups in and the shot from the baseline like he usually does we’d be up like 14 already…

  24. 24 piñon lopez

    Yeah, this is nice. Did Tay’s wife pull some strings on him or something, why after a 10+ game flat line, does he now have this explosiveness? Or did he have an unreported ailment or something? Last two, three games he’s been much more aggressive, what gives with the sudden change?

  25. 25 kevin s.

    Tayshaun pulls a Baby-Wade to get a flagrant on Dampier. His shoulder was injured until 1.6 seconds after he saw the flagrant whistle. Nice.

    Quit fouling Nowitzki.

  26. 26 Quick Darshan

    Yeah, Kevin S., he had his hands over his face, but in the replay, Dampier hit him no where near his face.

  27. 27 Quick Darshan

    Oh, and his name is Pookie until the Heat make it to .500

  28. 28 piñon lopez

    that was no flagrant but i’m not upset about that - tay doesn’t tend to fake it imho, in a general sense - say compared to rip.

    Good to see the stones returning the favor to dallas after our last game with them.

  29. 29 joejoejoe

    Tayshaun got some nice love from the ABC broadcast team for his consecutive game streak (2nd in the NBA to Bruce Bowen) and toughness.

  30. 30 Ohad

    sit the starters already. nothing is gonna happen in 3 and a half minutes.
    jesus, stuckey attacked the basket with dirk on him. the israeli broadcasters said that “he has no fear” and that “he is a ball player, plain and simple”

  31. 31 Quick Darshan

    Every game, you feel like saying, “This is Stuckey’s best game.”

  32. 32 Ohad

    note to dallas: lowest point total of the year. you’re not making it past the first round this time either…

  33. 33 PDXPistonsFan

    I’ve never been more frustrated trying to get the damn game on my computer. The channelsurf site petered out in the 1st quarter for me, a sopcast link worked for about 2 minutes, and even the nba.com live audio broadcast didn’t work until late in the game. I have offended the basketball gods in some way…

    Nice to listen to the last four minutes, though.

    I’m off to work, enjoy the Super Bowl, everybody. Let’s hope that no one spoils the result for me and I have better luck downloading football tonight than I did basketball this morning.

  34. 34 Mark B.

    Go Pats!

  35. 35 Lemming

    Rasheed Wallace for MVP. Too bad you can only have 6 fouls… otherwise Amir could get double-doubles, triple-doubles so easy!

  36. 36 Kyle

    yeah, something definitely clicked for stuckey. the last three games he’s gotten better each one. seriously, to go after dirk like that takes balls, he can stare down other reserve pg’s if he can keep this up.

  37. 37 Matt Watson

    FYI, there’s a lot of good stuff in my HOOPSWORLD game blog, if I say so myself. Flip on Sheed drifting before the game, Stuckey on Barea after the game, etc etc. Have fun watching the Super Bowl everyone — drive safe tonight.

  38. 38 Diablo

    MSU’s finest came through tonight…Plaxico Burress with the Greatest TD of his career…simply amazing!

  39. 39 Rob G

    It’s great - I just watched the end of the Dallas game, and the crew is making their Superbowl predictions. “Patriots! It’s gonna be a blowout!” says Van Gundy. Ha!

  40. 40 JackDutch

    i think what was amazing about this beatdown was how largely absent our two all-stars were. jarvis hayes and stuckey outscored them. and something seems to have clicked with stuckey over the past couple games. maybe it was the rookie game snub….

    btw, flip murray was active? why? where was he of the multiple sweatbands, primo brezec?

  41. 41 Alexa

    JackDutch - Keith Langlois said in chat that ol’ Primo had the flu and couldn’t go.

  42. 42 Kyle

    i’m starting to dig the teasing it seems flip is giving sheed. it shows he’s loosening up and appears to be working. sheed seems to definitely be putting in a more concerted effort in the post lately.

  43. 43 Boney

    From ESPN.com after someone asked if Jason Maxiell had a nickname… of course I said “baby eater”

    “AvocadoButters (19 hours ago) Report Violation | Ignore User ‘Baby Eater’ I kinda like that.

    Can we call him ‘Big Baby Eater’ in anticipation of a post-season battle with Boston.”

  44. 44 Quick Darshan

    Boney, there’s also Kendrick Perkins, “Baby Shaq.” All kinds of babies to be eaten.

  45. 45 LawyerBoy

    Boney, I think it’s a little premature to call him “Big Baby Eater” when Davis waxed us (though hardly Baby Eater in particular) in the last go around, but I am sure come playoff time he will earn the name “Big Baby Eater”.

    QD, Kendrick Perkins was/is referred to as Baby Shaq? I didn’t know that. Will that go down in the annals of history as Harold Miner being Baby Jordan?

  46. 46 LawyerBoy

    And on the subject of Mavs-Pistons yesterday, I called it this summer, Jose Juan Barea, total badass. I’d love for him to be one of the Boys in Blue someday.

  47. 47 Boney

    I didn’t call him Big Baby Eater.. that guy did. He asked if Max had a nickname and I told him and linked him here! then came back and said he liked baby eater, but then yadda yadda…

  48. 48 LawyerBoy

    Fair enough, it’s a great play-on-nickname-words. I just hope Max can live up to it.

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