And the season begins!

This could be a trap game on the road in Memphis against a team that many people severely underrate. The Grizzlies have a couple of really decent players in Rudy Gay, O.J Mayo, Hasheem Thabeet, Zach Randolph, Mike Conley just to name a few of them.

The Pistons Starting Lineup has also been announced:

PG: Rodney Stuckey
SG: Richard Hamilton
SF: Tayshaun Prince
PF: Charlie Villanueva
C: Ben Wallace

Pretty much what I expected. What is more of a question is how the minutes get distributed between the starters and the bench players. I think you absolutely have to start Ben Wallace though to establish some sort of defensive tone to start the game, so I like that move.

I think it’s extremely important to get this first win of the year and establish some sort of confidence in your team. I can’t think of any way worse to start the season off than to lose to the Grizzlies. But neither of these teams tonight play a ton of defense, so it should be a very high scoring game.

Prediction:
Pistons 110
Grizzlies 102