Official Pistons/Magic Series Thread

". It almost seems like they enjoy getting boo'ed"

Sheed has said several times that he injoys being the villain, so yeah, you are probably right.  The Pistons have been pretty consistently good on the road.

As to why I feel the way I do about Jameer Nelson, a couple reasons.  For starters, he is a total liability on defense.  Second, he is a poor passer, given the shooters Orlando has, and Howard in the middle, this guy should be looking at 12 assists a game.  At times I have felt maybe Arroyo should start, but hhe actually plays less defense and though a good passer, tends to get too fancy.  He would be a good energy guy off the bench, for quick instant offense, but beyond that, he is just not what they need.  What they really need is a good "floor general".  A guy that can hit the shot when necessary, but is mostly lookingto run the offense.

bucfan, you serve no purpose here except to interrupt the conversations of people that, not only know much more about basketball than you, but have enough class to try to discuss the game without lowering themselve to inflammatory crap.  Everyone on here is discussing the game in a civil tone, yet you insist on interrupting it with your incessant crying about elbows and flops.  Your points are totally unbalanced, and lack anything resebling fact to back them up. 

Regarding your baseless STuckey predictions, the guy is a rookie who torched your team for 19 points, in the playoffs, after having a limited role all year, end of story.  Your coach was praising him, and again he is a rookie learning the hardest position to learn.  Sorry, you are making a baseless prediction on a guy that nearly everybody who watched him play drools over.  He had six points in the game he started... yeah, who won that game? 

Winning is what matters, at the end of the day, stat lines mean nothing if you are on the losing team, and in this case, you are rooting for the losing team.  Have some of the games been close, sure, they should be, it's round two of the playoffs.  No one has come in here and stated Orlando sucks, merely that the Pistons are a better team.  At this point, the record shows that.

All the other Orlando fans, regardless of the outcome, your team has a bright future if they can hold it together while picking up a couple pieces.  It's tough to do this in this era of max contnratc expectations, and lack of loyalty, but Howard seems like a class act to build around.  And to the lone guy left o here behavingn like an insolent child, perhaps you would be better suited rooting for the Cavs, you seem to fit in with their fans.

Dang, I can't believe I forgot about Tony. The only thing is, this injury kept him out this season, so you don't know how effective he can be.

That would be a good line-up. Seriously guys, Jameer has played so well this post-season but everybody says it's time to move on. He's 26 and has played solid this post-season. He's shown that he can be very effective when he is included in the offense.

I still think that PF/C should be the main focus in the draft because Howard can play either and we still need a second rebounder.

I really got on Gortat's case earlier in the series,  but he has actually looked a little better and maybe has some promise to him