Game #8: Ain’t nothing but a Sheed thang baby
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[box score] If you stayed up you were treated to a pretty memorable and improbable Pistons victory vs. the high octane Golden State Warriors. The Pistons came from 22 points down to beat Golden State 111-104. With Chauncey and McDyess out with injuries it took a total team effort amplified by the brilliant performance turned in by Rasheed Wallace down the stretch.
It didn’t look good early. The Pistons were missing open looks while the Warriors were bombing from down town and hitting the offensive boards hard. Baron Davis was going off in the first quarter finishing the quarter with 16 points. The Warroirs ended up with 40 points for the quarter, a season high for them, and that’s saying a lot for a team like G-State that scores in multitudes.
The Pistons found themselves down 51-64 at half.
The third quarter the Pistons really got it going. They turned up the defense that was mostly MIA in the first half. Tayshaun stepped up big scoring 10 of his 22 in the quarter. Detroit was able to get Golden States lead cut down to 3, 82-85 by the end of the quarter.
Rasheed Wallace went to work in the fourth quarter. He commanded the ball down low and facilitated the offense beautifully. Sheed’s big three pointer is what really put the Pistons over the hump. He scored 13 of his 22 points in the quarter. This performance in my mind was much more impressive than his 36 point game vs. Chicago. He never lost his composure and really led by example. He took the game over and the rest of the team responded running the offense through the big fella. The end result was the Pistons biggest road comeback since the 2002-03 season.
Other outstanding performance’s came from Jason Maxiell who had his first double-double of the season (14pts & 14rbs) getting 43 minutes in place of the injured Antonio McDyess. Max did a great job on the defensive boards (10) taking advantage of the Warrioir zone, and let’s not forget the 3 blocks. Maxy really made case for himself being inserted permanently into the starting line up. Flip Murray who even though had his erratic moments did get a career high tying 12 assists to go along with his 15 points starting in the place of Chauncey Billups.
GAME NOTES:
- When was the last time the Pistons were with out 2 starters in one game?
- With the win Flip Saunders moves into sole possession of #3 all time wins for a Pistons coach (123)
- The Pistons lost twice last season to Golden State by an average of 25 points
- All starters scored in double figures
- Rip, Tay, & Sheed all scored 22
- Sheed also grabbed 9 boards
- 30 team assists
- Arron Afflalo was solid.
- Amir Johnson played well in early minutes
- Lindsey Hunter seen his first action of the season. 3 points and 1 assist in a little under 7 minutes of play
- Bad free throw shooting by both teams. Pistons 68%, Warriors 61.9%
- Why does Warriors’ center Andris Biedrins spike the sides of his hair back like that? Is he trying to create the illusion that he’s going faster?
- Baron Davis finished with 29 points and 9 assists
- Golden State is the league’s only winless team at 0-6
GAME QUOTES:
Rasheed on taking over executing down the stretch:
“Just executing, that’s all it was,” Wallace said. “It’s not a matter of taking over or nothing like that. You just execute. We started getting stops in the second half that we should have got in the first half.”
Matt Barnes on the loss:
“It’s very frustrating. We didn’t play two halves tonight, that’s the bottom line. They are a veteran team and that’s something you do can’t with a team like that. This is a game we had a chance to win but we just didn’t get it done tonight”
MORE RECAPS:
- Golden State of Mind: RECAP: Warriors 104, Pistons 111 – Not Again!
- Detroit News: Pistons’ comeback is Golden
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Unbelieveable. I didn’t see the game. I don’t have FSN. I’m going to write to Keith Langois who writes on pistons.com and ask why games against the Warriors can’t be broadcast on MyTV 20. I wanted to see the Warriors the last few years and never can. I did buy 4 of the the Dallas and Warriors series last year of the playoffs. Great games. Bought them off nba.com. Warriors are a fun team to watch, they remind me of PHX but they shoot a LOT more 3’s. Too many to be honest. Baron Davis is a heck of a player, he and Chauncey are similiar, their body build and the fact that they are both good at taking the big shots when needed. If Baron can stay healthy, the Warriors can do alright.
Anyhow, unbelieveable come-back, I woke up at 4am and logged onto espn.com to see who had won and was shocked. I expected a loss because GS is such a fast paced team.
This may be Flip Saunders best win as the Pistons coach thus far. Impressive.
November 15th, 2007 at 12:06 pmi went to this game and it was off the hook. the warriors fans were going nuts as the pistons came back and took the lead in the 4th. it was nice to see flip and maxiell step up and do some good things. cant wait for the next time the pistons come out to nor cal.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:19 pm