Just joinned midway through. A big lead should not have slipped away like that.Wheres the D? Also has Maxiell entered yet? Ive only just started watching now…
The Magic have some stunningly bad role players. Foyle is horrid. Evans should be an 8th man at best on a playoff team. Nelson should only be a back up pg for a playoff team. You can’t play guys like this and win unless you have LeBron.
I love that we just went to the zone. We’re forcing SVG to play Howard. Essentially Howard leaves, we go to a zone, and then go on a run, then they have to put Howard back in. I like it.
Also, I missed a chunk of the first quarter, are the officials calling this game tight? It seems like it so far.
I think the Dwight screen was a retaliation for Afflalo hitting his hand. He needs to talk to KG re: “how to emphatically settle a disagreement with an illegal screen”
And maybe Dyess could not allow 5 points in two consecutive possessions. Some people might like that, though, I could see where that would be a good thing.
Flip is rubbing it in. Herrmann in the first half? It’s like he’s waving his hand within inches of Van Gundy’s face, saying “I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you.”
After shooting 1-7 and having a game low -15, maybe Rashard would be better served to play closer to just 5 minutes in game 3 so he’ll have more energy?
Hows Flip look tonight…im stuck in Nicaragua and dont know if ill be able to get to a bar in time to see the game…sounds like his switch to the zone gave the Maginas some fits….stay strong Flip, im with you in spirit.
i do like flip going to the bench - they are stepping up - and it makes a great synergy to keep things hot and rest the starters - apparent mistakes in the early games with philly-though that may really be the starter’s issues more than anyone else.
needless to say, if amir was in we’d be winning. fire flip.
Detroit slacked off on the perimeter, and bingo, 3-city. Then Orlando started making 3s they shouldn’t.
I heard some TNT announcer say “go back to the zone.” Really? Isn’t Detroit’s defense late in getting to the perimeter? Wouldn’t a zone just open up more outside shots for Orlando? Or am I wrong?
I hate that we have to buy about 4 minutes here with the Rattler on the floor. Not that I don’t like him, but I find some discomfort with him on the floor in the 4th quarter of a close game.
Yeah, it’s time to go with the A team here. We might have tried to hang on one possession too long there with Stuckey and Theo on the floor. Time to bring Sheed back.
Detroit’s getting bum rushed on missed shots. It doesn’t matter what defensive set they run, Orlando’s getting it down there the whole 2nd half faster than Detroit can recover. On top of that, Detroit’s offense has slowed to an utter crawl, and nobody’s moving anymore because they’re winded racing after Orlando on their manic breaks.
Offensively we are playing very tight. When you think that a 36 point quater equates to a 144 pt game, it gives you a perspective of how HORRIBLE our defense was in that third quater. Come on boys. Lets go.
Im just worried now about when we head to Orlando, cause you expect the Magic to play better at home. And this is not like Philly where you can just turn the switch on. This team is tough…..I really wanted us to win this game to go with a 2-0 lead. Its not looking like thats gonna happen.
if they keep calling all these touchy fouls when we defend howard, we’re in trouble. we need someone to get hot, like quick to combat the refs kissing howard’s ass man.
Dick Stockton said the block and rebound was Ratliff instead of Maximus. I could go for that mistake if Ratliff was in the game, but he’s on the bench. Dick needs his geretal man.
I hate that call against Nelson. Are we really calling fouls away from the play on crucial players here down the stretch of a playoff game. Let them play!
Great, thanks TNT, you just showed a time-count of 5.2 seconds for that 4.8 left at the end of the 3rd when Billups hit that 3. We won’t hear the end of it.
Orlando the next two games is going to be frigging ugly.
If they appeal it, it does nothing. The flow of the game would have been changed, but the W doesn’t change if they lop off 3 points. Unless David Stern wants to be a real jackass and replay the game starting from the 4th, we got that lucky break.
You know Magic fans are going to flip out over the clock thing. Come on, it’s an unreviewable play. What do you want the officials to do? They were off by a tenth of a second and made a judgment call. Should we go back and look at whether they let too much time run off the clock on the play before the inbounds? What if they had started the c
Does anyone have a site where I can watch the game?
Keep the foot on their throats!!!
Check this out, if you have sopcast software the links here should work.
http://www2.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=11816&part=sports
anyone have a sopcast channel # that is working?
http://www.mogulus.com/mychannel420
StoogeTV.com is working great
Way to allow that Evans dunk, Dyess! And now send Nelson to the line for the and-1! Good job!
TNT announcer refused to say that ‘House of Payne’ was the funniest show on television!!!!
The revolution of Truth has begun!!
Yeah that was a bad blown rotation. The Nelson and 1 annoyed me — two times Tay went in with contact and didn’t get that same call…
I think we look great though…we could easily have a nice lead right now.
Thanks Jez for the mogulus link! Working great!
Just joinned midway through. A big lead should not have slipped away like that.Wheres the D? Also has Maxiell entered yet? Ive only just started watching now…
Keegan was sure that Dyess would hold the Magic to zero points… maybe next game.
Thank you, to all who came to my rescue.
Stuckey is awesome btw.
two missed free throws on the dyess blocking foul. Ball don’t lie
Thats the Rodney Stuckey I know and love
Max playing short rotations to conserve energy for his big 4thQ
….aaand theres the Rodney Stuckey I know and hate
Tay cleaning up the mess…
Stuckey seems like he misses the easiest lay-ups but makes the almost impossible ones.
Prince cleaning up the glass. Nice hustle Tay.
The Magic have some stunningly bad role players. Foyle is horrid. Evans should be an 8th man at best on a playoff team. Nelson should only be a back up pg for a playoff team. You can’t play guys like this and win unless you have LeBron.
I love that we just went to the zone. We’re forcing SVG to play Howard. Essentially Howard leaves, we go to a zone, and then go on a run, then they have to put Howard back in. I like it.
Also, I missed a chunk of the first quarter, are the officials calling this game tight? It seems like it so far.
I missed it when I came in late, what did Dwight get a tech for?
Im kinda suprised for a team that shoots the 3 well (supposedly) the Magic struggle against the zone. Hope it stays that way.
Mcdyess makes Howard travel and fall, beautiful.
Haven’t seen any real tic-tac fouls… two blocking fouls though… and howard got an early tech.
Got Poster Tay!!!!???!!!!!!
Damn another timeout? lol
What a dunk! I love the play. Magic look frustrated.
Tay! Nice hangtime on that dunk.
Tay’s dunk was a beauty!
“howard got an early tech”
I wonder if Rasheed taught him that…
Great dunk by Tay! And nice shot by Afflalo.
lol@ FLip telling the crowd to get hype. Who saw that? lol
Gotta like seeing Dwight Howard just crumple into a ball. What the hell was that?
Howard is fumbling a lot of balls… get your mind outa the gutter!
A couple ticky tack fouls there on Dwight & Max.
Damn let em play lol
Afflallo is so good on ‘D’ that they just hand him the ball now.
SHEEEEEEEEEED!
I think the Dwight screen was a retaliation for Afflalo hitting his hand. He needs to talk to KG re: “how to emphatically settle a disagreement with an illegal screen”
I love Stuckey, but why does he overreact to very typical NBA jostling?
You know there’s a talent discrepancy when a team runs post up isos for its backup pg on your starting pg
Some halftime/commercial reading for you guys.
Who is Jameer Nelson?
And maybe Dyess could not allow 5 points in two consecutive possessions. Some people might like that, though, I could see where that would be a good thing.
Not a good thing but still… just a thing.
HEEEEEERRRRRRMMMMMAAAAAANNNNNN! sighting
Walter’s in the game…
Flip is rubbing it in. Herrmann in the first half? It’s like he’s waving his hand within inches of Van Gundy’s face, saying “I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you.”
Herman and Rattler on the floor together… hmmm….
Now that’s a good thing.
Didn’t Herrmann make a first half appearance in game one?
Was THAT the play Flip drew up? Doubt it…
“Not foul trouble; those were earned fouls” -Rasheed
Horrible final 2 minutes to end an otherwise great quarter.
Sheed telling it like it is.
After shooting 1-7 and having a game low -15, maybe Rashard would be better served to play closer to just 5 minutes in game 3 so he’ll have more energy?
“It’s not foul trouble, it’s fouls EARNED”
Best quote ever.
Hows Flip look tonight…im stuck in Nicaragua and dont know if ill be able to get to a bar in time to see the game…sounds like his switch to the zone gave the Maginas some fits….stay strong Flip, im with you in spirit.
I absolutely love Charles Barkley. I do not turn away when he speaks because there’s a 99.3% chance I’m going to laugh out loud.
i do like flip going to the bench - they are stepping up - and it makes a great synergy to keep things hot and rest the starters - apparent mistakes in the early games with philly-though that may really be the starter’s issues more than anyone else.
needless to say, if amir was in we’d be winning. fire flip.
LETS GO STONES!
I wouldn’t put Dwayne Wade in “my five” either.
Sir Charles could read the phone book, and get his own sitcom/reality show.
tbranch, you spelled it wrong.
hmmm…not like this run they have made.
shrug, the three point giveth, the three point taketh away
*don’t like this run they have made.
Dewayne?
Get it together boys….
D’waine?
tbranch: Dwyane, I dunno why the y is before the a either.
need to go to prince now while he’s hot.
Sheed’s pass to Max was beautiful…
These 3s are annoying…
Damn they found there stroke….
what a ludicrous noncall
Maybe he spells it wrong… not me. lol
So when are we going to guard the perimeter?
Dont think we can win this…?
Dammitt….
wow. not catching any breaks. they can’t go 100% on 3s the rest of the game, right?
We’re done.
Just gotta play through this crazy 3 point shooting spurt. Can’t last forever.
I hate it when Rip tries to go coast to coast. It makes me cringe every time.
I think Maxiell got a piece of that ball.
Howard would be having a fantastic game if his turnovers counted as rebounds.
that little stare down by mo at our bench was comical…he’s such a freaking scrub. what a marginal player.
7 for 7… 8 for 8… that can’t last. Can it? Even if for a game, not for a series.
I like way the boys keep executing. No need to get rattled. They know this too shall pass.
F that, why dont they trap zone like in the 2nd?
lol to “we’re done” after a team goes 7-7 from beyond the arc — i’d be willing to wager on a little regression to the mean
I can see this Magic team hitting these all day. They gotta do something.
Detroit slacked off on the perimeter, and bingo, 3-city. Then Orlando started making 3s they shouldn’t.
I heard some TNT announcer say “go back to the zone.” Really? Isn’t Detroit’s defense late in getting to the perimeter? Wouldn’t a zone just open up more outside shots for Orlando? Or am I wrong?
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you progression towards the mean.
Did Bob Seger just have a little bump of coke?
That was Seger, right?
I think the officials can’t decide whether to call this thing tight, or call it like it’s a playoff game. Really inconsistent on the whistle tonight.
rashard traveled there
ugh….at this pussification
Probably the right call by the ref, but Ratliff looked like a volleyball player on that swat.
progression toward the mean… math spoils the day again.
When Sheed got fouled there, you could see him say, “bout time”… Its getting bumpy in the paint.
suck it lando
Rasheed turning the clock back with the oop!
RASHEED!
Nice pass Prince.
beautiful block + alley oop.
Thing of beauty! Tay to Roscoe!
one-handed, no less.
SHIT SHIT SHIT we better not lose this three
CHAUNCEY for Three!
I don’t think that 3 is going to count. I was thinking “way too much time has gone by here”.
boy imagine if this was end of fourth quarter…wow, what a screw up by the palace
man they are going to take away the three.
Fratello just counted the seconds aloud when the tape was being shown in slow motion. That qualifies for me as unintentional comedy.
How hard is this? Get out a stop watch, watch the feed, figure it out.
So what do you think? Yes or no? I say: yes it was good.
Man, I dunno, upon further review, that’s awful close.
aren’t we owed a shot clock gift?
i say not that close, and it was late…we just got a break
I was right!
If we win, I hope it’s by more than 2. That could cause a little ugliness.
svg should throw the challenge flag
Thank you they counted the three. Pistons up two.
Not going to matter when we win by more than 3.
Ooooh, controversy!
Allowing 36 points is inexcusable….turriable quarter!
Does anybody else find that song from the Sprite commercial to be catchy?
My wife is watching Jon and Kate Plus Eight. Ugh.
Anyone have a pick tonight for the Spurs Hornets? I got the Hornets in a close one.
No not really
“The shot clock operator is from Minnesota”
My diabolical plan has succeeded!!!!!!
Wow, I hate to say it, but Dwight just ate a baby.
I hate that we have to buy about 4 minutes here with the Rattler on the floor. Not that I don’t like him, but I find some discomfort with him on the floor in the 4th quarter of a close game.
Pistons playing tight on offense
Maxy’s jumper is spot on!
Maxiell did not have that jumper when he came here. Bless him for adding to his game; bless that Baby Eater.
Maxiell has a nice little jumper! The babies of Orlando can sleep a bit easier knowing he might not be so ferocious around the rim all the time.
Prince with the Swat!
it’d be ok if rip wanted to show up today
Stop giving it to Rip put Sheed and Chauncey in the game
I don’t like this.
Yeah, it’s time to go with the A team here. We might have tried to hang on one possession too long there with Stuckey and Theo on the floor. Time to bring Sheed back.
Detroit’s getting bum rushed on missed shots. It doesn’t matter what defensive set they run, Orlando’s getting it down there the whole 2nd half faster than Detroit can recover. On top of that, Detroit’s offense has slowed to an utter crawl, and nobody’s moving anymore because they’re winded racing after Orlando on their manic breaks.
Offensively we are playing very tight. When you think that a 36 point quater equates to a 144 pt game, it gives you a perspective of how HORRIBLE our defense was in that third quater. Come on boys. Lets go.
So much for the game plan. Defend nobody, pass nowhere. This is great.
Im just worried now about when we head to Orlando, cause you expect the Magic to play better at home. And this is not like Philly where you can just turn the switch on. This team is tough…..I really wanted us to win this game to go with a 2-0 lead. Its not looking like thats gonna happen.
Sheeeeeeeed
dumb reach in sheed
Is this an f-ing playoff game or not? COME ON!
Ouch five fouls
OH WOW. now that is not a playoff foul.
Orlando is FREAKING getting away with murder on their offensive end. Swallow the freaking whistle guys.
Fuck these refs….
I mean thanks for the first half. But F them now.
Hamilton wakes up.
Close it out now
if they keep calling all these touchy fouls when we defend howard, we’re in trouble. we need someone to get hot, like quick to combat the refs kissing howard’s ass man.
Deeeee-Troooooooit Basketball!
didn’t chaunce slap him first?
The officiating is a complete joke tonight. I hate that call. Similar call goes in favor of Orlando earlier. Unbelievable.
hmm, never a doubt, eh dwight?
THEOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
OH CHRIST. this could be our season if he’s hurt.
That was a hard fall. Can’t blame BC for stayin’ down on that one.
CB not BC
maybe Rip just woke up to take a piss then went back to sleep.
Dick Stockton said the block and rebound was Ratliff instead of Maximus. I could go for that mistake if Ratliff was in the game, but he’s on the bench. Dick needs his geretal man.
CBill got up from that and nailed em both. Tough guy indeed.
This is where our experience and poise down the stretch will show.
Sorry E-Double, let me change my THEOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! to Baby Eater!!!!! I’m kinda listening to Stockton without watching terribly intently.
Mason borders on crazy.
We need to get Tay involved on offense…he’s shot well all game and Turkoglu has 5 fouls
Wow… I thought for sure they were going to call traveling on Rip there.
I would have loved for that to count
damnit jameer
Lewis with the CHOKE
smart foul by nelson there
Well, that takes care of nelson
I hate that call against Nelson. Are we really calling fouls away from the play on crucial players here down the stretch of a playoff game. Let them play!
do we go hack a dwight here?
Except, you know, a question mark where it belongs in there.
(obviously only if he touches it)
I wish he would made both of those…
GOd Dammitt!!
Dwight is a man on the glass. He gets EVERYTHING.
Ouch Maxy!!
Orlando came to play the 2nd half.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWw
Ill-advised, Hedo.
Execution?
Way to hold onto it, Pistons.
Ill-advised, Chauncey.
Poor decision by Billups, he shoulda taken the shot.
Morons, complete morons
This could hurt… bad…
Idiot boy was obviously trying to draw the foul and then when he didnt hear the whistle he threw to Tay who wasnt expecting it.
Play defense please!!!
Lock-down Rashard and Hedo, and if Dwight sees the ball, foul him.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
(That ball totally went off us!)
Deeeetroit Basketballll!
My world is upside down. Flip Saunders has turned into a competent playoff coach.
Boney, however, is still wrong.
I would literally hold onto the ball even if it meant crouching in a fetal position and hold onto it.
Hamilton totally Ginobli’d. Well done, Rip.
Orlando = Dumb down the stretch
looked like it came off magic hands and rolled between piston legs
ooooh lol
Huge sigh of relief.
Man, Orlando’s WAAAAAAAY different with Stan Van Gundy helming ‘em.
Obviously lol. This is gonna be a series as expected
Great, thanks TNT, you just showed a time-count of 5.2 seconds for that 4.8 left at the end of the 3rd when Billups hit that 3. We won’t hear the end of it.
Orlando the next two games is going to be frigging ugly.
Stan Van Gundy may be a fantastic basketball coach, but awful at dressing himself. Has to be in the top 5 worst dressed people in America.
Orlando will probably appeal that 3 at the end of the third. According to TNT it was 5.2 sec elapsed when Billups let go.
There gonna whine in the press tommorrow about that 3 by Chaunce at the end of the 3rd arent they? I mean I couldnt it with 1 sec still on the clock.
It dont matter though, because even if it was waved off Orlando still would have choked.
More lip reading fun:
“F–king Bul–hit!”
– SVG aka the gnome, walking off the court, end of game 2
lollersk8z Stern <3 drama
If they appeal it, it does nothing. The flow of the game would have been changed, but the W doesn’t change if they lop off 3 points. Unless David Stern wants to be a real jackass and replay the game starting from the 4th, we got that lucky break.
Nice win, but like I said its a series still to me. Orlando might have found its stroke and thats crucial at home.
Lets get ready! Good Night all!
Why does Detroit give all these teams a generous helping of confidence?
You know what?? FUCK IT. Good win, Pistons. Go fuck yourselves, Orlando!
This aint really about them slacking but more of the Magic stepping up. They were gonna hit those 3s eventually.
You know Magic fans are going to flip out over the clock thing. Come on, it’s an unreviewable play. What do you want the officials to do? They were off by a tenth of a second and made a judgment call. Should we go back and look at whether they let too much time run off the clock on the play before the inbounds? What if they had started the c