The Pistons have a chance to go 4-0 on their western road trip, which is pretty amazing considering how rough around the edges they looked before leaving. Things haven’t completely come together (Rip Hamilton won’t shot 37% on the season … right?) but there have still been long stretches lately that they’ve played as well as any time of the last several years.
Here’s to hoping they finish strong and take care of business against all the familiar faces (Terry Porter, Grant Hill) in Phoenix. The ball tips in just a few minutes on FSN as well as NBA TV — leave your thoughts in the comments.
This DET-PHX stream looks pretty good:
http://www.justin.tv/joebtv
I like Kwame’s defence on Shaq so far. I hope he bodies him up hard the whole game.
If someone told me a year ago that I’d be cheering for an AI to Kwame Brown alley-oop, I would have looked at them funny.
That A.I. lob to Kwame was pretty.
Channelsurfing.net has a better stream than Justintv
Oh my… Did Kwame grow fingers?
Kwame is a beast!
THROW IT DOWN, KWAME BROWN! … Did I just type that?
KWAME!
KWAME THROWS IT DOWN
Kwame = Detroit’s Next Success Story
Well that hurt… .Amir is going to have his hands full..
Sneaking away from cleaning the house for a moment to watch some ball. Go Stones!
Blah I wanted Amir to throw that down so bad.
Boney, tell Amir to THROW IT DOWN, BIG MAN!
GO UP STRONG AMIR
god damnit
damn kwame always hits back rim in those circumstances.
fucking Amir
throw that shit down, jesus christ
i mean Amir.
If Amir and I were to switch bodies for just one night
I’d fucking show you how it’s done to be 6′9 220lbs in the NBA
The last time these two teams played, Amir blocked Shaq twice and then Shaq threw Amir to the ground with a hard foul. Let’s hope the young fella gets under the big fella’s skin once again.
I like the Suns commentators… they’ve given Detroit several compliments. At first I didn’t even know they were Suns commentators. Just because you’re a homer doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give respect to the other team. Blaha has always excelled at that. It’s nice to see another crew with the same outlook.
Speaking of homers it’s almost unbearable to listen to the home crew commentators during a Cavs game. I’ve been forced to watch on mute a few times.
Boney: That Amare dunk was for you.
Nice to see Rip hitting his shots.
nice amir
Good for Amare for actually developing a jumper.
Looks like Hamilton is off to a good start.
No Kwame = No defense in the paint. Strange to say that.
I don’t know why most of you think Amir can just throw it down on anyone.
I like Amir but he needs to gets stronger, you just can’t dunk on anyone just because you have the athletic abiltiy, you need to have the strength in your upper and lower body also. Amir doesn’t have it…yet. Get him in the weight room doing squats, some plyometrics, and some hang-clean and he will be dunking on people at will.
@Sean, I wasn’t exactly sad to see Fred McLeod go away.
I’ve been on vacation for a week, somebody mind summing up the 400 post Lakers thread for me? I watched the game from a bar with friends and didn’t have the greatest view of the TV. I thought we were fantastic from what I did see. Thanks, I’ll hang up and listen.
Ah, Grant Hill. *solitary tear rolls down my cheek*
Well, that was not what I was expecting.
Unfortunately, Amir’s lack of weight is painfully apparent against Stoudemire. Pushes him around like a rag doll.
Memories of the ‘97 Pistons start to come to mind. Someone please stop Grant Hill.
Hey check it! They have their own Herrmann…
You guys know that quick bunny jumping ability by Amir you all loved… I think that’s the root of his fouls. We need to keep our feet on the ground on defense.
Amir can’t dunk on everyone, you’re right
but he can go straight up to the rack rather than double clutching because a hand contests his shot… draw the foul, go to the line
Mcdyess would be nice in these types of situations.
I’d rather see Amir get blocked trying to kill it than trying to double-clutch and lay it in. Especially since everyone says his athletic ability is off the charts.
We look atrocious.
What is this, 1995? Grant Hill and Shaq on fire!
We’ll see if Shaq’s still doing this in April.
They are shooting 80%…
Wow… I just saw a Clippers commercial. “If you want us to play loud, you have to be loud!” Reminds me of being a Lions fan.
I’d like to think they can’t shoot 82% forever, but if we keep letting them shoot from 5 feet away I can’t like our chances.
Even though Shaq just got that baby hook against Kwame, I like it. Kwame is HUGE.
Boney: His body might not be able to take that type of beating, you never know, he’s probably already taking a beating just double-clutching and trying to finesse everything.
But power moves and dunks are not what I’m worried about with Amir, it’s the fact that he hasn’t showed any type of post moves to free up for easy lay-ups or turn-around jumpers.
Kwame makes Shaq get the ball 2 feet farther out than everyone else. I like his physicality(?)
we need to punish Edmondson… how dare he think he can check Sheed
Poor shooting, oh well.
Kwame is playing well on D, making Shaq work.
Good stuff Kwame!
Stoudemire rivals only Carmelo Anthony in the stupidest accessories and hairstyle category
Shaq’s trying to throw his body into Kwame, I’m glad the officials are noticing that.
It seems that instead of driving and kicking out or driving and dishing, we’re just playing one on one and settling for jumpers. And a part of our game is getting out on the break, and we haven’t been able to do that with the suns shooting so well. Hopefully things will start going our way after the half.
Shaq should be suspended for 10 games for that.
What a ridiculous cheap shot. Fuck him.
lol@Alvin Gentry
Alvin Gentry?!
Whoa!
Later, you fat thug.
ow, that must hurt.
What are the pheonix announcers saying? Kelser and Blaha said automatic ejection.
What a cheap shot by Shaq!
OOOO Fucking SHAQ!
Someone punch him.
Games like this really expose Detroit’s frontcourt
Damn Stuckey Shaq-Fu’ed#
Diesel is gone!
The Suns announcers are saying Shaq is ghost
get the fuck off the court you fat fuck
@Restructer_IT: The PHX officials are agreeing with the call. They said “I don’t know what he was thinking..”
Fucking clothsline Rodney Stuckey in the air? Fucking fat-ass. Eject him.
this game plan works for me (the sans shaq plan).
Every once in a while Shaq reminds me how much of a thug he is. Flagrant foul… maybe. Sitting there arguing and throwing your coach’s arm away after you did THAT… classless.
lol@ Porter having no control of Shaq
With great power comes great responsibility. Or a massive appetite.
Bye Shaq, pick on kids your own size. Leave your babies at the door, Max is hungry.
We got a chance to come back fellas.
(Frankly I think Phoenix can still control the game off Nash and Amare)
fucking Shaq
Shaq, tell me again what happens when Detroit wins tonight… you gave it to us right?
shut the fuck up you fat loser… how about you sit out another 30 games or so and make a playoff push like every other year
shaq is an asshole… coulda killed stuckey there, damn… i little excessive
I hope the Suns get blown the fuck out now and Shaq gets a suspension.
Wha happen…? I left the room for 3 minutes and hell hell broke loose!
Shaq’s making Porter look pretty bad here.
I can’t believe Stuck is still playing after bouncing off the ground like that. He’s a tough cookie…
Amare has never played a bad game I have watched. Is he a 2009 or 2010 guy?
Does Stuck know what state he’s in?
god damn doesn’t this league already have one sidefreakshow bob?? is this a varipendejo poser?
You know I generally think he doesnt know his own strenght at times. He put way too much thrust on that.
Gotta play smart Tay!
Stuckey knocked down both of his techs.
Shaq is such a bitch, he purposes threw Stuckey to the ground and he still tried to argue his point.
Halftime can not come soon enough.
*purposely
Ugh. We need Dice back
Rodney has to calm down, hes playing too reckless.
There should absolutely be a suspension, and a lengthy one, for that foul. Shaq is lucky that he didn’t break Stuckey’s neck. It was an absolute, ridiculous cheap shot.
That said, I love the way Stuckey has responded. We’re watching him grow up a little bit more tonight.
wtf. The announcer just called stuckey “butler” twice in a row
Quick! Someone throw a beer!
watching an NBA feed and god do they hate on the pistons constantly, questioning every call against peehonix
Post up Sheed, we need you right now. Maxiell too. Get Kwame off my HD TV please. kthanxbai
Was PHX annoucer calling Stuckey, Butler?
Stuckey doesn’t want his minutes to go to Bynum. He’s playing HARD. Not WELL, but HARD.
P_P, he has to calm down? He’s attacking the rim like it’s Shaq’s face.
RODNEY MF STUCKEY WITH THE AND ONE.
Stuckey is hurt.
Stuckey waking up!
Yeah before that he was running into brick walls. Sheed needs to get into the interior. He normally plays well against these Suns.
Shaq knocked some intensity into Stuckey
Look at Stuckey battling for rebounds with Amare.
Oh snap at Sheed fans in the Phoenix area. Am I the only one who heard Sheeeeeeeed on that shot?
Thats it Sheed get in there!
Oh shit, Canadian Bacon
Yes, we need Sheed
@p_p
They did it earlier in the game when Sheed posted up too. Before the game Kelser was talking about how there’s always a good number of detroit fans in pheonix.
Damn you Canada!
Was that Prince, Nash shot over?
For a squad thats supposedly never had a Superstar during there ECF run and considered “boring” Ive seen a lot of Detroit fans at away games over the past 4 seasons on League pass game.
Eric Snow, how is that even a debatable flagrant 2? He went up high on a guy that was 9 feet off the ground. Unbelievable. At least Aldridge pressed him on it.
PP: if those ex-pat Pistons fans are anything like me, they’re fleeing Michigan’s economy.
P_P, I’ve been to games in NJ, Philly, and DC, and in all 3 places the Pistons were very well represented.
Always plenty of Pistons fans in Toronto, too.
I just saw that Shaq foul (I’m Tivoing) and goddamn, that looked like the foul Shaq laid on Amir last year. Nasty as hell. I tried to find a YouTube vid but couldn’t, but I bet y’all remember that foul.
Phoenix is shooting 70% at the half and we are at 45%. And if unnecessary and excessive is the criteria for a flagrant 2, that was definitely a flagrant 2.
Bynum would have dunked on Shaq.
suns are shooting rather well
Stuckey must have been wearing Mithril armour to be able to withstand the assault of a cave-troll.
as if I needed anything more to hate Shaq for…
fucking loser
I hope some Suns fans come here and try to cry about that call. The same Suns fans that cried about Amare getting suspended for a playoff game for leaving the bench
I get the sense the Suns are trying to act thuggist after years of being a finesse team. It ain’t genuine toughness; kinda pseudo-tough
Come on fella someone move into fucking interior!
i am boring and that is why i like the pistons so much. shaq is an asshole. give me stevephen jackson, artest, or manny ramirez, and definitely sheed over shaq personality anyhow but he is o.k. with the media. they never question hiom in the same way but imagine if sheed had done something like that?
Rob G, I hear ya. I was just home for the week and I’m definitely home sick, but there’s nothing jobs wise for me to go back to. Detroit is on its way to becoming like Pittsburgh. My Dad is from there and when the steel mills closed down, all those jobs and workers left the city and went all over the country. I’m a Steelers fan, and there are ALWAYS tens of thousands of Steelers fans at away games because so many people from the ‘burgh moved. I was at a Tigers game in Baltimore this summer and was absolutely floored by the number of Tiger fans in attendance. I’d say that we were a good 35% of a pretty large crowd for a mid-summer game.
Its like Im living in a Bizarro world, the Suns and Pistons have reveresed roles in playing styles.
Oh yeah…cause that’s guy I want to appeal a tech for a teammate: Rip Hamilton. What? do you both wanna take a hike?
Sheed really has to post up for the rest of this game
With the exception of Kwame and Stuckey, we’re playing really soft tonight.
You know we’re playing soft when MF Steve Nash blocks a shot. WTF!
Well this game is out of reach, but I guess it does highlight the frontcourt issue thats been prevelant this year early. Really, not that I check the minutes but why does it feel like Kwame friggin Brown has been getting more PT than Amir and Maxiell this season? I mean its probably not true but it feels like it.
Rip Hamilton should never talk again after letting Nash stuff him like that.
Again…with the defense on the frontcourt
This is not a night of magic.
no way we make it out of the first round of the playoffs
/prophecy_projectz’d
Oh Im sorry Boney I didnt realise I missed the Pistons Championship Parade last year.
This is awful to watch.
your tv shouldn’t have played anymore games than after the 1st round last season
you must keep crow stocked in your fridge with as negative as you are towards the team you claim to like
You not for nothing but J-Max and Fabio would be useful in a game like this at this point.
just seems like one of those games… grrr
alright, I’m turning this crap off. I really don’t like Steve Nash… aside from Paul Pierce, Nash is #1B on my list of guys who I’d be satisfied to never see win a ring.
You know what’s even worse than this awful game is the 10 minute on-going rationalization of Shaq’s attempted murder of Stuckey. I used to like these announcers, but that’s not a defendable action
Halftime of the football game is over over.
almost*
^^^^ and he has nerve to hate on other Pistons fans for being negative?
This is really effin’ hard to watch right now…
Amir?!?! wtf?!?!
That was an absolutely terrible decision by Amir.
That’s our Boney. I think he called me out for suggesting that Perkins had a good rebounding game. Meh. It’s what Boney does, and I wouldn’t ask him to change.
I think we need some Walter to combat Amundson…
prophecy,
Tell me again why the 76ers will beat the Detroit Pistons in the playoffs last year.
your explanation = fail.
Please turn your Jason Maxiell Eats Babies shirt over to Garrett before you sign off.
Rob G.
I doubt I went off about Perk having a good rebounding game.
Now if you told everyone how the 6ers would beat Detroit in the 1st round, well, then I’d call you out on it.
@ Sean W
Too much Vidal Sasoon hairstyle swagger for one basketball court.
14 point game… small chance for a comeback… im putting all my hope into this!
Boney, if I remember rightly, I think I basically said Perk WAS acting like a beast during the ECF, and you suggested I was playing “grab-ass” with Boston fans, or something. It was pretty funny.
We just need Nash and Stoudemire to get thrown out and we got this one in the bag!!!
Detroit Pistons staple 4th quarter lock down defense…
MFWB!
Hey, this Bynum guy is pretty good.
Or just put Bynum in the game… either way.
By’em might get us back into this…
Bynum!
9 point game!!!!!!!!!!!
Our lineup is no bigger than a mid-major college team…
I don’t know if any of you have Wiki’ed Bynum but it has some interesting info on him.
I like this lineup. It’s not always smooth, but the energy and fearlessness is always there.
Rob G.,
Anytime I accuse anyone of playing grabass with perkisafatass.com people, it’s usually humorous.
If I offended you, my apologies.
to prophecy_projectz, get that crow ready
Boney - dude. You’re boney. I know what the score is. Jackass.
By’em!
Okay, so that’s a little out of Bynum’s range.
Boney, Jesus Christ your like a scorned schoolgirl Cheeleader LOL!.
So what I was wrong? Most people thought the same way during that series felt the same way given the teams history folding in winnable series. At the end of the day, its not like them proving us wrong was anything to marvel at because we still didnt win the title and we’re currently rebuilding.
So whoop-de-doo they proved me wrong and beat Philly. Brag to me when we get a title. I’ll be there with ya then. But until have a coke and a smile and let it go when we as fans criticise the team. The reactions are normal of any sportsfan. Hopping on other fans instead of the players aint.
Is your life that uneventful that you sit there and make a diary of when people are wrong ?Course you do, like I said your a schoolgirl. You even post like one like with that “your explination=fail” quip. LOL!
Why dont you take that energy an apply for a Ball Boy position at the Palace or something lol.
these are really really obnoxious announcers.
I’d love to read diaries of Pistons fans.
“OMG! So today, I was at the game, and I was like five feet behind Herrmann! And I yelled his name LOL! But when he turned to look I hid my face!
!!111!!!!”
Bynum on Amare…not a good mix.
fack
The Suns are kicking our ass… of course the announcers are gonna gush.
The way they excused Shaq’s foul was criminal though. That’d be like me going to a 5th grade playground and knocking some kid to the ground because he was being aggressive… and somehow justifying it by saying I don’t know my own strength. It’s one thing to block a shot, its another thing to follow through when you’re A) huge and B) knowing you have your opponent in a compromised position.
I find the Suns announcers more tolerable than of course Bostons.
But in terms of straight humor, you guys gotta check out the LA Clippers local announce team. The lead commentator just doesnt care. lol. He ad-libs the most random shit ever. I remember watching them against San Antonio last season and he said something along the lines off
“And the Clippers are in a scoring drought with 3:45 gone by in this quarter. They’re just not having any luck……..although that guy in the 10th row seemed to have some with that young lady” without any cut to a camera shot of it or anything whatsoever and he just keeps going with that kinda stuff. He’s like a drunk pimp, Im pretty sure hes related to Phil Jackson
Look, I haven’t come around on the trade at all to be honest, I’m still sure this team is out in the second round as constructed now (though that might change if we get Dyees back… not sure)…… but:
1) The Lakers game was pretty damn good by the end of it. Apparently we CAN win with Rip Sulking if Sheed wakes up and realizes how much easier AI makes his Job AND Kwame Brown focuses 100% on defense and tries to stay the F out of the way otherwise… that worked. Hate the deal or not, it worked, it looked great and if the Pistons keep doing that all year they will win a PILE of games.
2) Nobody wins every night
3) Four game West Coast road trips aren’t easy, they’re physically taxing and the team was due for a letdown after the LA game…
I take absolutely NOTHING from this loss and I honestly think anyone ACTUALLY watching this game can tell the Pistons are tired and half of them are already on board the plane home…
It happens… it just better not happen in May… knowhatumsayin?
Really referees?
Note btw, I’m assuming we’ll lose, who the F knows maybe we can make the huge comeback
Okay fine… j/k
PG4L Im with ya
Dude literally is a poor man’s D Wade
He cant get no breaks
I’m watching the game… I don’t think we look tired.
P_P, it’s not that you were wrong. It’s not even really horribly, flamingly, ridiculously wrong. It’s that I don’t think I’ve ever seen you say anything positive ever. I mean, if you define success as titles, then I feel kind of sorry for you. It’s possible for a season or a game to be a success without a title or a victory. We’ll be really lucky if the Pistons win 1 more title in the next 20 years. It just doesn’t happen that often, there’s a reason they throw a parade when you win one, man.
no, seriously, these announcers are terrible tonight. They’re so smug right now.
how was that an offensive foul?
@ P_P
I totally agree about Stuckey. At worst it’s a no call.
@PG4L: Agreed for the most part. Their jumpers are looking flat, and aside for Stuck it looks like most of the guys can’t wait to get back to the locker room. I’m really hoping a couple of days off gets these guys the rest they so obviously need.
@PG4L:
Like I said after the Celts game on Sunday: Get back to me in 10 games. I wasnt worried then, nor was I estatic after the Laker game. Better to have these difficult games early now and see what happens. But Curry needs to utilize the team more like how he did at the start of the season. I dont know but it just feels like Maxiell doesnt get used enough. Maybe Im not paying attention but I think he and even Hermann could benefit with a little bit more PT.
Also, hearing the Suns color guy saying that the league will change the Flagrant 2 on Shaq because of the way Stuckey has played since the foul (something along the lines of how much he loves contact and created the situation where he almost got killed) is the most alarmingly stupid thing I’ve ever heard. And this is an election year where a lot of really stupid things were said and are still fresh in my mind.
No, they’re tired. They’re not closing out on shots. Their screens suck. They aren’t rebounding. The best player on our team tonight? Kwame. Hands down. Great D. And if Kwame Browns your player of the game, you’ve done something wrong.
Consider me a Knight of Kwame.
booooo
According to the phoenix commentators the Suns just beat the best team in the NBA at their own game. This is a real important win for them.
Other Matt:
*In deadpan Brad Garrett voice*
They have nice uniforms and I would love to have Mason announce the birth of my first child in the Delivery room as it happens. There. You happy now?
I dont get the hate for the Suns commentators btw. They’ve given us props all night long in the midst of a blowout. Or do some of you take it all as backhand compliments?
“Alan Acker” …. lol
P_P, that’s much better.
Poor Lopez’s baby just became dinner..
Meh. Not a night of magic.
I think Hermann and this dude from the Suns should play one on one after this game on this court and the loser has to honorably get his ponytail sliced by the victor via an ancient Samurai.
Fuck that was a baby!
A lot of the compliments have been backhanded in nature. This announcing team also has the distinction of saying the most stupid thing I’ve ever heard. So take that for what it’s worth.
Who hired Eric Snow to do TV? The guy is worthless.
@Other Matt:
Like I said, you need to take in a Clipper Game on League Pass/Channelsurfing sometime and see some real commentary gems.
i liked the suns commentary too̷