Game 4 OGT: Life or Death 5/29 8pm ET on ABC Bitch!

[Anthony]

So, what do you guys plan to do with your june?

[Kstat]

hunt down and break the kneecaps of every official from tonight's fix/game?

[Gecko]

hunt down and break the kneecaps of every official from tonight's fix/game?

Of course it's the Ref's fault!

The Pistons can't even sustain a modest effort for more than 2 consecutive qtrs. This is going on 9 games in a row now. The ref's excuse is mighty lame.

Hunt down Rasheed and break his knees please.

[DennyMcLain]

Flip's plan is brilliant -- but you must view it with objective eyes to understand it's genius:

First, take as many jump shots as possible, and from that have half of them be 3pt attempts. This keeps the Pistons from sapping their energy with greuling inside play and hard drives to the basket.

Second, foul DWade as hard as you can. Even if he's not injured, you're weaking him with each slug. By game five he should only be a shell of his former self.

Third, the Pistons play their best when the proverbial "chips" are down, so a 3-1 series deficit only means the Pistons will finally play like they should.

Fourth, dress better than RiLeY. This will eventually get to "the king of style", and in his demented state of being "had" fashionably by some dude named "Flip", call a horrible final 3 games.

I believe this to be the perfect plan, similar to that of General Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens during the Revolutionary War, or that of Patton at the Battle of the Bulge during WW2. Flip will go down in history as the master architect of deceptive warfare.

Or, he'll get shot for being outcoached by a Metamucil-chugging geriatric.

Your choice.

[Comrade]

hunt down and break the kneecaps of every official from tonight's fix/game?

Of course it's the Ref's fault!

The Pistons can't even sustain a modest effort for more than 2 consecutive qtrs. This is going on 9 games in a row now. The ref's excuse is mighty lame.

Hunt down Rasheed and break his knees please.

Effort or not, the team that fouled the least this year by far somehow managed to allow 47 FTs, which I believe is the second most in the playoffs this year and what has to be the largest FT differential. The Heat almost took as many FTs as they did FGs. Of course there are going to be a few iffy calls here and there, but this game was chock full of one-sided calls.

[Uncle Mxy]

Effort or not, the team that fouled the least this year by far somehow managed to allow 47 FTs, which I believe is the second most in the playoffs this year and what has to be the largest FT differential. The Heat almost took as many FTs as they did FGs. Of course there are going to be a few iffy calls here and there, but this game was chock full of one-sided calls.

Apart from the Ben-Shaq matchup, which had a number of typical Shaq bullshit calls (Shaq not called for that ever-present off-arm, Ben getting called for doing decent D), that wasn't really the case. This wasn't Game 3, where our runs were responded to with repeated Miami blowjobs by the refs.

We lost because we'd play fine D on Wade and he'd make some really tough shots.

We lost because we'd focus too much on one matchup and they'd get to the open man in Haslem.

We lost because we didn't do the work to win.

[Comrade]

Effort or not, the team that fouled the least this year by far somehow managed to allow 47 FTs, which I believe is the second most in the playoffs this year and what has to be the largest FT differential. The Heat almost took as many FTs as they did FGs. Of course there are going to be a few iffy calls here and there, but this game was chock full of one-sided calls.

Apart from the Ben-Shaq matchup, which had a number of typical Shaq bullshit calls (Shaq not called for that ever-present off-arm, Ben getting called for doing decent D), that wasn't really the case. This wasn't Game 3, where our runs were responded to with repeated Miami blowjobs by the refs.

We lost because we'd play fine D on Wade and he'd make some really tough shots.

We lost because we'd focus too much on one matchup and they'd get to the open man in Haslem.

We lost because we didn't do the work to win.

Indeed, I never said we deserved to win.

[Taymelo]

hunt down and break the kneecaps of every official from tonight's fix/game?

Of course it's the Ref's fault!

The Pistons can't even sustain a modest effort for more than 2 consecutive qtrs. This is going on 9 games in a row now. The ref's excuse is mighty lame.

Hunt down Rasheed and break his knees please.

Typical conservative.

Can't see shades of grey.

The officials basically handed the game to Miami, but Detroit (i.e. Rasheed) didn't really want it, anyway.

Middle ground, people.

Good luck to Miami in the next round. If they get this kind of help from the officials, they'll nab their first championship, while Joe D. hopefully tries to turn the signing of Rasheed Wallace to a long term deal into something.

I wonder what we could get from the Knicks for Sheed. They'd love to add him.

[Anthony]

Sounds like a blast!

[Kstat]

yeah, but its awfully easy for miami to hack us on every other shot and create running opportunities. Any team can look really good when there's that much of a difference in how you're allowed to play.

Tonight's offense wasnt bad as it was just Miami grabbing ar our arms and forcing us to look bad. If we could do the same thing to them, We'd have won by 20.

I thought Flip's defensive adjustments in the 2nd half worked great, he just wasn't allowed to keep his best players in the game, and the Heat eventually broke through.