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Chris “Birdman” Anderson gets onto a lot of highlight reels for dunking on guys and/or blocking the mess out of their shots. He was about to do the latter to the Warriors’ Stephen Curry until Curry did something sick. We’re talking maggot covered garbage on a 104° day in July sick. Take a look…

(Game Day Films are video posts loosely relative to the Pistons opponent and hopefully mildly entertaining.)

“I didn’t have a father figure growing up. Chauncey kind of filled that role,” Stuckey said. “On and off the court, he just sort of filled that role. He’s a great guy.”

I love this quote, but unfortunately Stuck’s not alone, after last night all the Pistons should be calling Billups daddy.

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Joe Dumars does not care about the Haier Shooting Stars Competition

I hope Joe Dumars is able to find a happy place when the Pistons lace ‘em up against the Nuggets because I sure can’t.

Seeing Chauncey Billups score 25 on 6-for-11 shooting while Charlie Villanueva and Ben Gordon combine for 14 points on 6-for-16 shooting breaks my heart.  I’ll take the guy “on the downside” of his career who is averaging 20 points and 6 assists on the second best team out west over two wildly inconsistent young gunners any day of the week.

Last night while joining George Blaha in a second quarter broadcaster swap Nuggets’ color guy Scott Hastings commented that the Billups trade worked out for both teams. Ok, there’s Denver, so who’s the other team? Hastings was known as a funny guy during his playing days, so maybe that comment was showing everyone he still knew how to pull a good rib?

Then there’s Arron Afflalo whom Joe sent to Denver for cap space.  In return we get a future second round pick.  Maybe since we’re near the bottom of the league in perimeter defense we could use that pick on a guy who could help to correct that?  Maybe a guy like Arron Afflalo perhaps? AA scored 14 connecting on 4-of-6 from downtown, meanwhile Villanueva and Gordon -three point specialists mind you- combined to shoot 2-for-8 behind the long line.

Then there’s a Carmelo Anthony.  All we missed out by drafting Darko Milicic is a 30 & 6 guy that is the definition of a franchise center piece.  That’s all.

As witnessed last night the Nuggets have two guys in Chauncey and ‘Melo who are go-to-guys when a game is close.  The Pistons have ZERO.  Plus, Chauncey Billups and Carmelo Anthony are two really cool names.  Just thought I’d throw that in there.

Last night’s game wasn’t totally horrible.  The Pistons hung in a game that they surely weren’t picked to win.  It’s just hard to ignore the woulda-coulda-shouldas playing against Denver.  On a glass-half-full tip Joe Dumars has given us a team to pull for as we await the draft lottery results.

Starting tomorrow night the Pistons will be taking their one game winning streak out west for a four-game western swing that will span six days.

That means four Sleepy Floyd day afters next week. Wait, scratch that. THREE Sleepy Floyd day afters since FS Detroit decided to drop the Golden State game and as of right now there’s no local coverage and I don’t have League Pass. I’m still pissed about that ridiculousness.

Oppo	Date	Tip	TV
	Tues 23rd	10:00 PM est	FSD
	Weds 24th	10:30 PM est	FSD
	Fri 26th	9:00 PM est	FSD
	Sat 27th	10:30 PM est	NBA LP

Being away from the practice facility Coach Kuester is leaning on shoot-arounds to keep the team sharp:

“Your shoot-arounds become important,” Kuester said. “A lot of times, that’s so true that, when you don’t have the practice time you’re not able to tweak things continually, but that’s where tape comes into play, and also our shoot-arounds have to become very valuable during that time.” -Freep

The Pistons are currently 1-9 vs. Western Conference teams on the road. Their lone WC road win came at Memphis in the season opener back on October 28th.

My rooting interests no longer have to end after All-Star Friday Night’s Rookie Challenge. Now I’ll have a Mr. Big Shot to pull for in the 3-Point Shootout.

Hopefully CB does better than he did in ‘06 where he didn’t get out of the first round.

Looks as if J.R. Smith must have agreed to come up off the #1 for Mr. Big Shot.  As of tonight Denver’s official roster page still has Chauncey as #7, but a ticket advert on the main page clearly shows Billups wearing, an albeit photoshopped, #1 Nuggets jersey.

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UPDATE: Here’s confirmation of the number change via Fanhouse — last line. (HT: nmiko)

Update If  Walter Sharpe joins Bucks, he probably won`t play next season. Is expected to have surgery for an ACL tear. ( Gery Woelfel via DBB)

Here’s to hoping Sleepy doesn’t bounce around like Cheikh Samb has since  behind dealt by the Pistons.

The Nuggets have agreed to trade forward Walter Sharpe, a week after acquiring him from the Pistons.

Sharpe and swingman Sonny Weems will go to the Bucks for forward Malik Allen later in the week, the Denver Post reported.

The Nuggets acquired Sharpe and Arron Afflalo from the Pistons last week in exchange for a future second-round draft pick and cash. -DetNews