Pistons kicked off their preseason last night with a 95-91 victory over the Miami Heat. Detroit was led by second year guard Rodney Stuckey who looked great last night besides his 4 turnovers. Stuckey finished with 23 points going 8-15 from the field and 7-7 from the line and also dished out 5 assists and grabbed 4 rebounds. Other notes from the night…
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Rasheed Wallace went 1-7 from behind the arc last night. Preseason or not, its not a great sign when your center takes 10 shots and 7 of them come from behind the arc, especially when he can only make one of them. So far….same ole Sheed.
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Amir struggled in his first start of his career I believe. He finished with 2 points and 4 rebounds along with 5 fouls in just about 18 minutes. He’s going to have to learn how to stay out of foul trouble if he’s going to be the starter here but hey, Michael Beasley and Shawn Marion are no easy guys to guard.
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Tayshaun Prince impressed me with his rebounding…8 boards from him tonight. One of my biggest criticisms of Prince in the past has been he’s too soft and as a 6′9 small forward in this league he should be averaging more than 4.9rpg. If he can average close to 6-7 a night I’ll be impressed but I’m not getting my hopes up.
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Chauncey and Rip were basically just Chauncey and Rip. Chauncey did lead the game with 6 turnovers…I expect that to change though once the regular season comes around.
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The Bench was awesome…what are they calling them ZooCrewII now? Something like that I believe. Anyways, Stuckey had 23 points shooting 8-15 from the field and 7-7 from the line. He also dished out 5 dimes and grabbed 4 boards…not bad but he did foul out and turnover the ball 4 times. Nice showing for his first preseason game of the season. Hermann continued his hot shooting from the Open Practice on Thursday, Hermann finished with 11 points and went 3-5 from the field as well as 2-3 from behind the Arc. Dice had a nice 10/6 game and Maxiell put up 13/3. Afflalo grabbed 7 boards, Bynum had 4 points and Kwame finished with 3 points and 1 rebound in 11 minutes. Overall, solid game from the bench.
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Alex Acker and Cheikh Samb didn’t get much time at all which was kind of shocking since it was the first preseason game and everything. I guess Curry wanted to use this game to get the starters and regular rotation guys their legs and will use Acker and Samb more as the preseason progesses. Samb getting a DNP was surprising to me though.
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Michael Beasley scored 16 points and grabbed 6 boards in his NBA debut. Nice outing for the rookie in his first official NBA game…
Next Game: Pistons host Michael Redd, Richard Jefferson, and the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday October 9th at 7:30pm. Game will be televised live on Fox Sports Next.
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April 21st, 2009 at 7:25 pm
You appear to be really educated about this