Detroit Pistons at Indiana Pacers Wednesday February 23 7:00 pm Local TV: FS Detroit Nat'l TV: Radio: 97.1 FM The Ticket
"Let's get focus. We need this road win in Indiana. 24 games remaining for the season. Don't rules us out just yet. Let's go Detroit!" - Charlie "Chaz" Villanuava, via Twitter. My good friends from Indiana, Doug and Pam Schmaltz, will be in attendance tonight at Conseco Fieldhouse.
CV playing like the garbage he is. We were tied when Q started subbing. Since the bench came on, Pacers went on a 12-1 run. Our bench sucks in this game. Bynum/Gordon backcourt is a horrible joke. Daye plays like a rookie and Wilcox only shuttles up and down the court because nobody's looking for him. CV is pure garbage. That bench unit of Bynum/Gordon/Daye/CV/Wilcox is a horrible horrible lineup.
First qtr....bench is failing to do their job and Pistons have fallen behind by 7. (26-19) Our SF is Taynking with an ofer 3...now it appears that he is out for the rest of the game with some soreness Tyler Hansborough is playing as if he was a former collegiate player of the year
Pacers up 51-43 at the half. Prince with 0/3-0/2-0-0-0-0-0 stat line on 9 minutes of play Monroe stands out with 13 & 8 (5 on the offensive glass). Stuckey has 11 pts, 1 assist and 3 TOs. Big Ben doing his thing with 4 pts 6 boards and 2 steals. Wilcox, Bynum, Daye and CV all have binary stat lines. Gordon is leading the bench with 4 points and 2 TOs. The starters are +15, the bench is -55 combined. Kuester is an idiot. The Gordon/Bynum pairing is suicidal. Wilcox/CV pairing is just as bad. He can't see any of this. We need to trade away enough players that he won't have enough permutations to screw up the lineup. Alternatively, we can get a coach who has a clue. He's so weak. He needs to get in the refs' faces. He doesn't react strongly at all. That backcourt violation call against Gordon was utter BS and all Q did was stare at disbelief; which is probably the strongest protest he has in his repertoire other than silently mouthing "Wow".
No Prince to start the second half, so Q replaces him with Gordon?????? So we have Stuck playing the 3????? Why not Daye? Hell, why not give Summers some burn? This coach is an idiot.
This is why Gordon should be starting and Stuckey coming off the bench. Gordon is more productive playing opposite Tmac. When he is out there with Bynum, he is never going to get the ball and you got two small defensive guards out there.
Great start to the second half by Gordon. Missing three shots and then a stupid flagrant foul in an and-1 sitatuion. They get a 3 point possession and get the ball back and score again. Add the miss on the other end and it's a 7 point swing. Pacers are now up by 14. This game's over.
Pistons fighting back. Lead is down to 7 with Pacers up 69-62. Monroe already has 20/10. Which means he probably won't play in the 4th quarter. Stuckey's having a very good game too. TMac and Wallace are also ok. Nobody else showed up today.
Pistons with a rare third quarter victory 30-27, but still down 78-73. Starters doing a good job tonight....now just need bench to get them back in it to start the fourth and then make sure that Monroe is back in there about the 7 min mark to close out the game. JMAX in for spell
Stuckey's having a great game. 3/3 from 3 point land. Daye's stinking up the joing again. His post defense is atrocious.
Monroe ties it 95-95 with 3:19 with two free throws but then Granger nails a tough 3 pointer because Pistons are incapable of grabbing the rebounds that fall on their laps. Pacers up by 3.
Daye comes in ice-cold after the timeout and nails a tough shot to put the Pistons up by 1 with 11 seconds left.
Brandon Rush looks like Moesha's dad. I haven't been watching the game, but it seems like I could say it was Kuester's fault to any loss and get at least one agreement.
