The first time the Pistons faced the Celtics this year, it was Allen Iverson’s second game since the trade and the entire roster looked completely disjointed. For the most part, things have turned around in the five games since, with the exception of the disaster in Phoenix and the first half last night.
Can the Pistons win the rematch and become the league’s first team to beat both teams that made last year’s Finals? Will Coffee With No Cream outshine Kendrick Perkins? Will the Celtics listen to their coach and (finally) stop chirping? Will the always classy KG take any cheap shots? Will I keep asking questions as a device to take digs at the Celtics?
We’ll find out soon enough: the ball tips in a few moments on TNT. It’s still too early to say this is a statement game, but a win tonight would be nice … as nice as an ice-cold CC & Ginger on a hot summer day! (Sorry, couldn’t resist.) As usual, leave your blatant product placements thoughts in the comments.
Statement game. Pistons 95 Boston 88
I just finished listening to an interview with Brian Windhorst who covers the Cavs for the Cleveland Plains Dealer.
For what it is worth he is almost postive that Dyess will be returning to the Pistons.
If we win tonight and finish this brutal 4 game stretch at 3-1 I will be very impressed.
Kwame needs to knock KG on his wallet put him out of the game.
That will make a real big statement
Let’s do this.
AI 3
http://www.justin.tv/psnk4
Gonna be a very tough game for the guys tonight coming off that energetic game last night and given Boston’s bigger frontcourt and D
Tough, sure, but a win.
And this is why we got AI.
Very good aggressive start. Strange being on the other side of these slow starts.
Mean D by Sheed on KG!
That was a really pretty pass.
Sorry Sheed but as far as Kwame goes
Hollywood Cake>>>> Coffee with no cream
Love that pass! Sheed for 3!
Kwa-may Brown taking the charge! So is he, like, our official starting centre now?
what a start..
13-2
“Kwa-may Brown taking the charge! So is he, like, our official starting centre now?”
Yeah, it looks permanent. Curry likes how it allows Sheed to go back to PF, and he pointed out how Amir’s speed isn’t as needed in the starting lineup with AI around.
It’s kind of funny how things work out.
Damn Ivy got Rondo’d….
Get him AI
My son calls Sheed “Rasheed Walrus”. Not a bad name really. Big. Loud. Ornery.
..Likes to flap around, has large ugly teeth, ball dont lie for either?
smart act job by KG there - u knew Sheed was going to put himself in a position to pick one up
stones look really serious tonight
wish they’d call that hook on pierce when he drives, it’s very annoying
PP… lovein’ it! Big teeth +1.
But we love Sheed, and we love walruses as well…
Yup.
Speaking of acting job, we just got a brutally late whistle on that Rondo foul on AI.
Sheeeeeed from deep!
what has gotten into sheed man?
Now thats getting aggressive Rip
Sheeeeeeeeeed!
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Yah, is good so far
ROb G, is nice!
Now that’s rebounding
But that aint ball handling
GOOD D.
Rob G: Seamless integration into the background image! It’s almost like the ad was meant to be there in the first place.
BAD O.
GOOD REFLEXES BY SHEED THERE.
KG: So aggressive, he drinks 2 cups of Gatorade at a time.
@Garrett - a marriage made in marketing heaven! A heaven where they serve CC on the rocks, that is
Not a bad start at all.
Or marketing hell, depending on your perspective.
Side-note:
lol@ Leverage
Can I make a confession? I don’t really know how to say it….. and I wasn’t sure if this was the best time to say it…. but I really need to get it off my chest. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. I guess I’ll just say it: I HATE THE CELTICS SO MUCH.
Nice to see Afflalo getting some credit on national TV. He’s been unreal for Detroit this year with some sick +/- numbers that come entirely on the defensive end. He’s like a stronger Michael Cooper.
(also Rob G: your GMU stuff sounds really interesting)
Garrett, we feel your pain. We really do. Feel free to speak openly and without fear of consequence. Just get it off your chest. Say what you have to say. Experience the catharsis. Breathe. We are here for you.
Did Max just air a FT?
Yuck.
Please don’t let Tony Allen have another good game against us. I hate him.
Glen Davis has the facial reactions of a female contestant on any Reality Game show. Seriously, what America’s Top Model shit was that Big Baby. Mouth all wide open like a disable child. Get it together
……..yes.
I hate the Celtics too. And I hate ESPN (not related to this game, but since were venting). And I hate TNT tonight. I want Blaha. And I dont want a story about the Celtics running their mouths, thats nothing new.
Scalabriene? Really Detroit, you gonna let them do that to you?
matt watson, your series of questions remind me of don rumsfeld. have the celtics beaten the pistons alot this past year? sure. do we still hope that the pistons can beat the celtics? of course. will we be disappointed again? maybe.
Time to free Amir!
Time to play some better interior D. Hey, Amir can do that.
pistons havent scored yet in the 2nd qtr? with the big 3 on the bench… ugh that’s really frustrating
i don’t wanna see a repeat of the last 2nd qtr, jesus
Boston is the defending NBA champions and has 3 Hall of Famers yet the thing that gets the fans out of their seats is Brian Scalabrine. Odd.
@Lucas:
Against the Celts? lol, go on then….
I hate it was crappy players do well against us. When I played ball, I used to get offended when someone crappy guarded me and I probably played even better than I normally did. I wouldn’t let some scrub show me up. Mind you, my game is reminiscent of Jeff Hornacek, but still.
Wonder if we’ll see Will By’em.
Scalabrine got tired of waiting to be picked at the rec and joined the Celtics instead.
JoeJoeJoe, it’s because he’s got red hair.
Definitely against the Celtics (whats he going to do… air a free throw and then let Boston get easy points in the paint?)
My game combines the tenacity of Jeff Van Gundy with the physicality of Stan Van Gundy.
The NBA Cares: Where the fans not really giving a shit happens.
/Hellbound
Leon Powe is an intelligent, in control, more disciplined version of Jason Maxiell
Breathe Stones. Breathe.
@joejoejoe:
Sounds like you may spontaneously combust just wathching a 7 game series.
@Forty - it’s hard not to like Powe
Forty, don’t you mean Leon Powww? Phil Jackson’s really high on him.
Dos Equis amber is one fine beer. A 30 year Canadian Club would certainly be finer, but still.
I mean all things considered its not a disaster. Yeah we were up big, but of course you knew the Celts were gonna comeback.
I too like Powe.
Is Tony Allen going to put his name on the Glen-Davis-Kendrick-Perkins-Tony-Allen Cup again?
I like Powe almost as much as I don’t like Perkins.
My game is like Sheed’s minus the talent.
I have more size and strength then most people that I ever match up with, but I’m decent at shooting the 3 and I play like a 2 trapped in a 5’s body. Nobody likes it either.
Poo.
Even though I hate House, he’s money from 3.
Leon Powe is good. He beats paying a 31 year old James Posey $25M for 4 years.
Holy shit, that was an impressive 3! Im not even mad!
dammit
Ummm. I don’t like any of this. Tay got Tayed.
why… whyyyy… whhhhyyyyyy
Fuck what do u do when they are better?
Thanks Prince, instead of being down only 4 the team is down by 11.
They’re not better. Just tighter. Let it develop.
Cause its Boston
Yeah, Prince, stop shooting that negative 7 pointer…
Doug Collins is whacked. How is Prince supposed to take it harder to the hoop when he’s airborne? Once you are in the air you can’t generate more momentum and Prince was 5 feet from the hoop when he got blocked. Next time I guess Tay should wear shoes with afterburners.
We all need to relax… with a tumbler of CC
Collins criticizes Tayshaun for not going strong to the basket, but when he did earlier in the quarter he didn’t get the call. This is a situation where not going the basket is a symptom of the way the game is being called (on one side of the court), not the other way around.
Their bench is better than most starting lineups…
The big three have combined for 6 points right now. They combined for only 32 points when they beat us last time. Boo.
this game is almost an exact replica of last night’s first half.
hope it’s an exact replica of last night’s 2nd half as well.
or i don’t. whatever. (reverse psychology still in full effect.)
Stuck is out of sync. We need…………….. BYNUM!
Stuckey has been a disaster today. He starts out with Pierce on him and should attack immediately. He does not. He finally gets to the rack and picks up a bad charge (come on, if you don’t think Boston’s bigs are going to step in front of you, you haven’t watched much film - gotta dump that off to a big or kick it). Then he completely stops being aggressive.
i understand that stuckey’s game is about attacking the rim… but that doesnt mean he cant pass the fucking ball… he holds the ball for entire possessions it seems… i dunno
Well as long as we dont lose by 20….
/Projectz’d
About time Prince dunked something.
Calm down peoples. If opposition bench shoots 66% for the game on the road you are going to lose against Memphis or Boston or St. Mary’s. Most benches end up cooling off a bit.
Bynum vs. Garnett, round 2. Bring it.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM TAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on Curry, steer the ship! No Amir? No Hermann? Stucky looks like garbage, so where’s Will Bynum?
Kwam takes it!
Q-Brown! Yeah baby!
Wow. That was a really good move by Kwame.
Coffee no Cream!
Kwame taking it to the rim like that? He needs to do that EVERY TIME. He’s so big and fast.
The announcers are sucking on Kevin Garnett like Jenna Jameson in most of her porn videos.
as much as there are those of us who overhype amir, we are as guilty of doing the same with stuckey. kid has had horrible moments this season thus far. high, high peaks and low, low valleys with him.
That was poor D Etroit Pisons….
I’d love to see a stat that says how many lay-ups teams get against us. It seems like our defenders trail guys for an entire play…….until he gets to the rim. Then they part and there’s always a clear path with nobody jumping or stepping in the way.
Afflalo has been the best young player this year for Detroit.
Bynum. Where are you?
If Kevin Garnett is so great then how come he hasn’t had a Championship until he’s on a team with 4 other all-stars? Face it he suck. He’s not that great or dominant.
Herrmann?
@Jackdutch:
He was like that last year. I mean he’s still a developing player, he hanst even played a full NBA Season yet. Hence why I was a bit suprised that Joe D thought he was ready to take the next step without being guided by Billups. Unless he thought, Iverson could mentor him on another aspect of his game with the scoring.
Garrett - I think we are way too aggressive with going for blocked shots. In today’s NBA the money play is the charge, not the block. It’s not “gritty Detroit defense” but it’s effective. It has the advantage of always getting you the ball and adding a PF to the other team. That’s basically what Boston does with their second string bigs - and suddenly you can’t drive.
HB has a point. Though “suck” (sic) is obviously too strong.
Here we go, Rip vs. Ray begins
Yes.. move the ball!
Is Boston exempt from the 3 second defensive rule?
AI take this game over. Right now. Do it. Right now. Blow up.
Forty: I definitely agree — drawing charges is where it’s at. We just seem to part and leave the rim wide open after playing pretty good D all possession.
Pierce is an elite player. People don’t give him enough credit. I don’t know if he has a bad rep from being on some truly stinky Team USAs or what but Pierce is damn good.
Also, Rip seems a tiny bit frustrated with his new ‘I’m the offense on the second unit’ role. It was only a few weeks ago that he was the offense on the first unit!
This game is looking more like the Cavs game from last night. How did that turned out?
lol@ Charles knocking Wade out of his Top 5 for Yao.
Thats probably the new commercial
agree, joejoejoe. spellcheck has been a revelation. i can see that kid starting by 2010.
About Bynum….i was browsing through some videos the other day…and in like 2 of them he had a nickname “Will Da Thrill Bynum”…i kinda like it.
Give him some minutes!
Why wouldn’t they lead the league in techs? They always get a raw deal from the refs. That finals against the Lakers? Puh-lease.
The guys have no plan on offense. Tay is struggling, Rodney is stuggling.
We are not winning this game. And let me call it in advance: Fuck you Boney if you think otherwise.
What’s up with that shove from Perkins on Maxiell?
Celtics is getting cocky aren’t they?
Boy could Perkins be more of a dickhead?
Garrett, that mother## got a tech out of it.
despite the horrid, horrid 2nd qtr… we’re still in it..,. but what an ugly 2nd quarter… let’s hope for a comeback like last nite’s game
We’re fortunate to be down 9. I hope we have another second half in us like the one last night.
For those of you watching the feed at http://www.justin.tv/psnk4, check out the photo of Tracy McGrady in the banner at the top! Haha! Is that T-Mac or Beetlejuice?
9 points down isn’t awful.
@ Garrett:
I mean its Perkins, what do you expect.The guy stays looking like someone took his ice cream.
Max has been brickin’ shots too, that doesn’t help
we were down 11 last night at the half. it’s a carbon copy!
HB: Yeah, glad the refs caught it (it was a pretty late whistle for the tech). But it just seemed so……out of nowhere. And Max didn’t even react to it.
Perkins learned all his bad sportsmanship from the king: Garnett. I think it’s funny that a guy like Rasheed is an asshole while KG is everything that’s right with sport. Rasheed is whiny, but he doesn’t try to show guys up or do all the cheap shot bullshit that KG does. Did anyone see KG running down the floor clapping in Jose Calderon’s face the other day? He’s such a poor sport it’s almost comical.
9 points = no biggie
Dammit, why does Kwame have the highest +/- by a mile?? It doesn’t help my case for whining about his minutes every night when he goes and plays well like a big jerk.
Garrett - if you watch the replay, Max walked towards him and was yapping
Forty - but he yells! Hes so intense! Hes passionate about everything!!!
Garrett - I think they cropped out part of T-Mac’s noggin in that photo. T-Mac doesn’t usually look like a Sam Cassell with a shrunken head.
Didn’t Garnett and McDice got into it a couple of years ago? Garnett is a thug. He’s no great player that the announcers been talking and sucking on his balls all night.
They’re really pushing this Yao/Chuck/Wade commercial - that’s some great marketing right there, a bit like plugging a delicious ice cold Canadian Club
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: I HATE all of the after-the-whistle stuff Garnett (and now the rest of the Celtics) do. Blocks shots, pulling them out of the rim, slapping the ball away. Some ref needs to T them up one day for unsportsmanlike conduct.
@ Forty:
Im glad you mentioned that KG-Sheed comparison, cause someone had a great article about that during the ECFs last year. I cant remember who (Maybe Stein on ESPN) but it was basically about attitude and caring on the court and how they arent always mutual and talked about there careers over time since the 95 draft.
Man I want what the TNT crew is eating. I just ate but I want a helping of that.
@HB that Mac and Cheese looks tasty
Where’s Boney at? We need some acerbic comments
Rob G, damn I want them fried chickens.
HB - I bet it would go down well with some smooth Canadian Club.
I think this is the restaurant that served Kenny and Chuck the food.
http://www.beautifulrestaurant-atlanta.com/
I had something like that for lunch.
Well there’s no comparison on the court between the three main PFs from that era: TD > KG > RW. Gap pretty big between all of them IMO. I just hate the after the whistle horseshit, swatting shots away, pounding your chest, cheapshotting Zaza Pachulia in garbage time when your team is about to advance, punching Bogut in the face, spiking McDyess with the ball, etc. Amare does a lot of the same chest pounding but manages to be kind of endearing and not trying to embarrass the opposition. Garnett manages to just be a complete douchebag. An incredibly gifted douchebag, but a douchebag nonetheless.
Canadian Club is the only whisky for the DBB squad. Smooth. Refined. Like our basketball analysis.
Get the win baby!
Let’s do this!
We are moving in slow motion.
Sheed two bad passes in 30 seconds.
What happened to Ray Allen? Is he on the court tonight?
AI got schooled!
I spoke too soon. There he is!
The whole team just got schooled.
WTF?
Boy Rasheed really dogged it on two consecutive plays. Made no attempt to rotate to Rondo (despite the fact that he was covering Perkins - there’s no way you stay home there) and then little attempt to contest with the Allen run-out.
Ambush!!!
Sheed looked lazy there.
Liberate Amir!
KG scolded that Angry Turkey!
Kwame Brown looks like a meaty Cliff Robinson with his new short cut.
AI = Absolutely Invisible.
This is not a night of magic.
We ran the Washington Generals offense on that play.
Ummm defense?
Rasheed looks completely disinterested. And Rondo is mollesting Iverson.
Didnt we use to have a high energy starter that played hard and helped us get fast break points?
As Doug Collins might soon say, our body language looks terrible out there.
Bynum? AA? Amir? Hermann?
C’mon MC is there a method to your madness?
Mix it up!!!!!
Bynum? AA? Amir? Hermann?
Haha! Doug Collins is so much like Tobias Funke it’s not even funny. Quote of the night? “How would you like to be Kevin Garnett’s wife tonight?” Ha!
We either rule.
Or we suck.
No middle ground.
We have to get Rasheed off the floor - he doesn’t give a fuck right now
Our pick and roll defense is terrible right now.
Curry needs to snap and yank these guys.
This game is Phoenix 2.0.
Rashthreed. Needs to leave the game.
Sheed rather hug Garnett than kicking his ass right now. TRADE RASHEED.
@Garrett; Collins isn’t an analyst, nor a therapist - he’s an analrapist
If I was Michael Curry I would pull all the regulars and scream out SUMMER LEAGUE BABY!
Too bad Max wasn’t in there to absolutely CREAM Garnett on that after-the-whistle alley-oop they just did. I would have loved to see that.
Ug. I guess the good news is that this loss is all about the Pistons not showing up and not at all about Boston being a better team. On the other hand, that’s the most frustrating thing about this game. The Pistons that played out west would be womping Boston.
Joe D should have put Rasheed in that trade package with Billups to Denver. McDyce is shorely missed. At least he gives a damn. Rasheed is just standing there watching.
Boston is better now, no doubt. I still want to see how we gel as the year goes on and especially in a seven game series.
And now I shut the TV…
Seriously if they aren’t going to cover and save my $5 bet (seriously, a 7 point spread??), at least free Amir and Bynum.
Ugh so frustrating. Kwame has been the only bright spot. And what does Amir have to do to get minutes? He was tremendous against Boston in the first game. He should have been in for Sheed as soon as Rasheed stopped trying.