OGT: Pistons - Shaq, Ben Stein, and LeTravel, Atticus in the house

Somebody make a Lebron carrying luggage photo, seriously this guy travels with frequent flyer miles.

Stuckey's playing well.

Pistons now tied for seventh-worst in the league.

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Originally Posted by Glan

Interesting that Daye gets the 2nd half start in place of Gordon as opposed to Bynum at the 1 and sliding Stuckey to the 2.
At a certain point, you have to start wondering if Q has a mandate from Joe to keep Stuckey at the point.

Or Q realized that Bynum absolutely sucked last night and didn't want him in there effing up the game any more than he already did.

Not that he was all that impressive, but Stuckey did a good job down the stretch of making things interesting. To me, the epic fail moment of the game was CV trying to post on LeBron when down by 5 or 6. Not exactly a wise move, and one that I doubt came from the bench. Still a good effort from the team though.

That theory wouldn't really explain why Bynum played a ton in the 2nd half.

In fact, Stuckey seemed to play his best ball when bynum was playing PG.

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Originally Posted by Glan

That theory wouldn't really explain why Bynum played a ton in the 2nd half.

It does if you buy that Q would rather play an off Bynum over an ancient Chucky. Not many other guard options, really, so you play what you have. With all of the substitutions last night, it seemed Q was really reluctant to leave anyone out there for a prolonged time period.

Well, we can't give Coach too many PG options - Stuckey has got to play PG, remember.

So we sign a vet minimum Atkins - never was/never will be a PG. And we've ensured Bynum doesn't start by making him the team's 6th Man and he has performed that role so well that we would be fucked if you switched him and Stuckey.

This is Joe's way - remember we dealt Curry after Tay "blossomed"? That was to ensure we had no other potential starter (Corliss could not start)

"Lightbulb moment" (perhaps?) Maybe that's why Joe kept signing old big men when LB as here. Maybe Joe thought they'd get injured or stink up the joint and LB would be forced to play Darko.

Let's see we... signed Soup, Dale Davis and McDyess way back then. All "broken", or so Joe thought. But Dice found the fountain of youth, Darko never played, whined and got dealt when his value was lower than a dwarf's nutsack.

See, it's Joe's way of ensuring his project plays.

If I ever played for a team that you coached, and you brung me off the bench, I'd intentionally stink it up. "Oh, he must be a starter!" meanwhile that guy who plays good and proves himself stays on the bench?

Yeah, you're fucking retarded with that shit.