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Game 73: Detroit Pistons vs. Miami Heat
TV: ABC
Radio: WDFN 1130 AM - The Fan
Sunday, April 1, 2007
The Palace of Auburn Hills - Auburn Hills, MI
Probable Starters | Game Notes | Injury Report | Tix

The skinny: Miami, expected to struggle to qualify for the playoffs after losing Dwyane Wade to a shoulder injury in February, instead has played its best basketball of the season since losing him. Pat Riley has refocused the team around defense and making Shaquille O’Neal the focal point of the offense. Jason Williams has shaken off the debilitating effects of knee problems and has been providing the Heat with efficient floor leadership. Mid-season acquisition Eddie Jones and Udonis Haslem are superb complementary players. Miami comes in to the game at 39-33 and the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference, but the Heat could wind up anywhere from third to sixth in playoff seeding.

What to watch: Check out Rip Hamilton – if he’s there. It’s probably not a bad thing that he’s missed a few games, as long as the flu symptoms and mild concussion he suffered have no debilitating effects. When other key Pistons were out of the lineup, Hamilton ran himself to the point of exhaustion and accumulated assorted bumps and bruises that threatened his effectiveness. But the Pistons need him to be back in peak form when the playoffs arrive, and it would be nice if that meant he came back for this game against the team most likely to present the biggest roadblock to the Pistons’ return to the NBA Finals.

Slow down this sweaty monster? not likely. Slow his pink jersey brigade down? easy task if we stick to it.
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good conversation so far, guys.

i smell a fight brewing. this is the chippiest play i've seen from us in a while.

Yeah, if there is a fight one of our players might just haul off and clock a ref.

I don't smoke, but after a game like that I need a cigarette.

had to listen to this one on the radio, and i missed the late 4th quarter run :(, but as the infallible George Blaha said, "It was a barn-burner at the Palace today!"

i'm sure Sheed is showering up, ready to hit Ford Field for Wrestlemania :D

Anyone see that amazingly stupid graphic that characterizes our big men, showing that we bring Nazr Mohammed in for his defense?

Hubie Brown is a fucking douche.

Hubie Brown was hating on us all day. I couldn't believe some of the garbage he was saying.

if you could double brown's IQ he'd still qualify as 'retarded'.

nice win for us, although it was not pretty. cavs lost too so we've basically wrapped up the division if we don't self destruct. i think our magic number is 5or 6 perhaps.....?

the magic number is 5, with 9 games left.

Hubie Brown is a fucking douche.

Yes, Hubie Brown is an idiot. Among the stupid things he said, the one about Gary Payton being a good matchup w/ Chauncey was the stupidest. Does he not remember Chauncey lighting him up every time they play or the fact that he absolutely torched him in the 2004 finals? It felt like Billups heard Hubie because as soon as he said this Billups posted up Payton and scored.

GO PISTONS