LiNK for game preview<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Game 6: Detroit Pistons at Los Angeles LakersTV: FSN Detroit, ESPN; Radio: WDFN 1130 AM - The FanFriday, November 10, 2006Staples Center - Los Angeles, CAThe skinny: The Lakers are one of the teams that?s changed perceptions of themselves over the first week. They?re coming off an 11-point loss at Portland on Wednesday, but they?re still 4-2. The keys on top of the constant ? Kobe Bryant ? have been the improved play of second-year center Andrew Bynum and veteran Luke Walton, the dominance of Lamar Odom while Bryant sat out the first two games, and the surprising contributions off Phil Jackson?s bench. Ronny Turiaf, Vladimir Radmanovic, Brian Cook, rookie Jordan Farmar and ex-Piston Maurice Evans are combining to score more than 30 points a game, all of them playing double-digits minutes. What to watch: Same story, different day. The Pistons have quickly fallen into a rut of slow starts. Against a hot team with a scorer of Bryant?s caliber, playing catch-up is not advisable. If the Lakers have a clear weakness, it?s at point guard, where former Pistons third-stringer Smush Parker is the starter but shooting only 37 percent and dishing out a mere two assists a game. Farmar is more creative, but he might not be physically up to the challenge of guarding Chauncey Billups at the other end.</div>Starters for LALPG #1 Smush ParkerSG #24 Kobe BryantSF #7 Lamar OdomPF #4 Luke WaltonC #17 Andrew BynumBynum is having a great year and is delevloping very well. Kobe has not scored as well as he has been. hes scoring 21ppg, we all know that wont be is average for the year, so hopefully he wont have a great scoring night. he had 32 his last game vs Portland. He's been passing more though with 5 ast a game.The Big men for the Pistons need to do a hellluva lot better than they did against Sacramento. if they do well and Kobe and Odom do not, then we have a blow-out win.it will be good, but I wont accept a four game sweep on a road trip against us. we need to break even. in these next two games.I got Detroit winning.after this game we need to go to Oakland and beat the Warriors.GO Pistons!! :dribble:
I think Detroit will achieve .500 status tonight. But Hamilton is listed as questionable for this game.
This will be a close game but how but including a very important factor, Rip may be sidelined with an elbow injury. He is listed as a game time decision. If Rip does not play, it will be even tougher to beat the Lakers. Delfino and Murray will have to step up a fill his place. Whether Rip plays or not we need Sheed to score.
Tayshaun dominated, he finally is getting into the form I thought he would be this year, on both offense and defense. I hope it keeps up.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pistonfan11 @ Nov 12 2006, 06:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Tayshaun dominated, he finally is getting into the form I thought he would be this year, on both offense and defense. I hope it keeps up.</div>Lol you shouldnt be saying this after Golden State...
Tayshaun individually shot 5-7 for 11 points, he had an okay game in GS..but Nazr had a donut on the scoring sheet because he didnt have a FG attempt, I dont like the Ben Wallace type stat...he needs to get more involved..but to the point. the LA game was what the pistons needed and a 32-point loss wasnt a good follow up..
