There was no Rip Hamilton and no Rasheed Wallace for the Pistons, and no Melo Anthony for the Nuggets, and the Nuggets were home, so the set-up was more than fair for the Nuggets and the "smart money" was on another cheap Nuggets win. But the Pistons crushed the Nuggets with offensive rebounding and nerves of steel free throw shooting of Arron Afflalo. Denver finally lost a game despite, yet again, it's opponent missing an abnormal number of free throws. But Afflalo made 8 straight free throws in the final 2:53 to prevent Denver from winning cheap for a change. The final score was Pistons 93 Nuggets 90 for this game in Denver on Jan. 9, 2009. This game will be forever remembered as "The Turning of the Tide Game". Great games from Tayshaun, AI, Dice, Maxiell, and Coach Michael Curry at the Lexus controls with 9 players for 9 minutes or more; absolutely fantastic game for the whole Detroit City crew, Coach and General Manager included. Congrats all around to all Pistons crews. Offensive Rebounding of the Detroit City Crew: Maxiell 4 McDyess 3 Afflalo 2 Brown 2 Prince 1 Johnson 1 Bynum 1 Pistons Combined: 14 All Nuggets Combined: 7 So Denver, I think you were missing someone who had you had him rebounding like hell you would have easily won this game: Lol at the Demver announcer claiming that Denver "gave this game away" Yeah, how true; they gave it away last July when they gave Camby away. Well Denver, since you hated Camby and thought his style was weak, and so you gave him away for nothing, and so Camby wasn't around to win this one for you, who was the rebounding leader of this game? Antonio McDyess! Damn, Denver, that's supposed to be your player! You were beaten by your own player! Denver, I think you need to turn over a new leaf and be a little more loyal to, strategic with, and consistent with your expensive, important players. I love this game.
Karl continues to try and destroy his own team, but billups and anthony are making it hard for him. this was a pretty good game, but the pistons are clearly the better, deeper team.
