Detroit Pistons at Atlanta Hawks Saturday March 13 7:00 pm Local TV: FS Detroit Plus Nat'l TV: Radio: 950 WWJ
This sux. What, the Pac 10 Womens' basketball tournament is going to draw a larger audience than a Pistons game in Detroit? So much for Fox Sports being our local option. I know college conferences have gotten pretty weird lately, but surely there are no Pac 10 schools in the greater Michigan area.
You're missing a slaughter. 30-12 after one, I can't believe the Pistons scored 12. JJ got blocked on a layup at the buzzer, blocked by Mo Evans. Which summed up the whole quarter. Bynum got a tech, then Kuester got a tech, then the Pistons got called for delay of game, the latter two during the deadball between the techs being shot and Bynums tech. Hawks are long and fast, Pistons can't compete with them with little Gordon/Bynum, and Rip jacking treys. Ha, Kwame turnover on the inbounds after the Hawks score near the open of the 2nd. And they score again. 7 turns already. 34-15
Looks like we are taynking bigtime...down 28 at the half. Will Bynum is back down to earth with 3 assists. (The Hawks have 20). I saw the second qtr..where we attempted a comeback, but couldn't recover from the first qtr 12 points... Wizards down by 13 so they are still in tank mode.....
I only watched just a tad of this one, listened to the rest on the radio. We were down 28 at the half, got to within 9 to start the 4th quarter, making a game of it at least. Of note, JMAX had a solid double double as he made a bunch of free throws. They laughed pretty good at Kwame at the line - but hey, Kwame played a lot in this one and was barely negative for the game. (I listened to the Atlanta feed using ESPN.com) Have a good night everyone.
Thrilled to see JMax coming on strong (3 straight double doubles) after what seems like 2 years of uninspired, and inconsistent play. That contract is looking solid right now. If only we could find someone to dump CV on.
Jerebko had a lot of trouble scoring around the basket when Josh Smith was on him. I think Smith is the type of player JJ could become. The Pistons were a step slow in the 1st quarter and ATL killed them from the outside. The Hawks had 22 points before 6 minutes had been played in the 1st and only missed 3 shots in the 2nd. I think we can add Jamal Crawford to the list of players who can do what Gordon is supposed to be doing for 1/10th of the price. I liked the play where Q got T'd up sticking up for Bynum (who had a legitimate beef) especially when he barked out He didn't say a word to the ref. I liked Rip and Darrell Walker coming over at the end to get their 2 cents in also although I was half expecting Rip to get tossed. Boy have I cooled on Ben Gordon. Dujaun Summers got steamrolled at the end of the game by Mario West when he was going up for a layup. It was almost fight worthy.
Good question because back in the pre-bad boys era it was common for them to tape the broadcast and show it later - non Prime time. Modern era looks like they are dropping all together. We have 2 more Sat games in April that we will have to watch for. I would imagine that a lot of people would have gave up on the game after the 1st Q anyway. Nice come back in the 2nd half though. I heard some of it on the radio.
I think this game and the one against the Warriors a few weeks back are the only 2 that weren't on TV. It is still pretty weak though.
Would have been nice to have Jamal Crawford on the squad to bring in some "street cred" to the Pistons as he seem more consistent than either Bengo or CV...but then he would have continued his streak of 10 years in the league without going to the playoffs. This year with the Hawks , he is in the post season for the first time in his career and barring injury is playing. Oh yeah that last foul/block/mugging on Summers sounded and looked like his head crashed against the backboard
Other than the two games the Pistons played in LA this year and the ESPN games, last nights game was the first where I had to watch/listen to the opposing team's broadcast/announcers, because no Piston FSD feed. I have gotten George and Greg on at least 60 LP broadcasts this season and this is the first time i've gotten this many FSD feeds in a season since I started subscribing to LP in 1997. I think my DirectTV company likes me and my loyalty
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOL THE arrogance of the past 5 years of this organization has caught up with them.
