[ChrisWoj]

Suns bringing it back up. 32-31 Pistons lead.

And a looong deuce for the Suns.

Delfindo in and handling the ball for Detroit. In to Dice who nails a nice smooth turnaround to bring the lead back for the Pistons.

Suns now with it. And James Jones is hot, with the long jumper to bring the lead back for Phoenix. 35-34 Phoenix up.

Nash is coming back into the game.

Defensive 3 on the Suns... hamilton coming to the line now. Hamilton misses, uncharacteristically.

[ChrisWoj]

Billups with it now, he's back in the game.

Over to Delfino who misses a jumper. Billups with a long rebound. In to Dice who nails a short turner! 36-35 Pistons.

Nash with it. To a wide open Marion who misses the triple.

To Ben. Ben over to Billups who looks to Dice. Dice to Hamilton. Back out to Chaunc. To Delfino... STROKING. THE. OPEN. THREE! At the shot clock buzzer... wait, check that, two only, foot on the line.

And the Suns right back with two while I wasn't looking.

Pistons inside to Dice who just manhandles Marion for two and the three point lead.

Nash now inside to Marion who gets total revenge with the layin.

40-39 Pistons. Billups misses... Suns on the break, Nash misses the pullup to Dice.

Pistons bringing it up and setting up.

[ChrisWoj]

Billups to Dice who misses, but ben with the tip out to Chaunc who nails the three!

And now back to the Suns... with Marion who comes right back with two!

Billups bringing it up, trying to take it inside... he draws the foul. He'll go to the line it looks like. TNT going to comercial..ridiculously..AGAIN.

Pistons holding the 43-41 advantage with four and a half remaining in the half.

[ChrisWoj]

The game returns from break.

Billups stepping to the line. And a missed free throw. But he casually puts home the nect for a three point lead.

Suns bringing it up. Nash on the floor to Marion. Back to Nash. Around the horn to Bell who nails the open jumper. 44-43 pistons still up one.

Chauncey bringing it up. man down for Phoenix, Delfino is the free man and he nails the wide open Jumper!

Missed inside by Phoenix to the Pistons.

Billups with it, handling at the top. Foula way from the ball against Ben Wallace... offensive... and the Suns will get it back.

[ChrisWoj]

pistons out there playing the zone against the Suns, Nash missing a three to the fast-breaking Pistons. Hamilton puts a shoulder into his man and gets called for an offensive foul. Nash knocked on his *** by an over-eager Hamilton.

Suns bring it up. Nash to Bell.. to nash. Diaw gets it inside and kicks it out to Bell who nails the long deuce!

Billups up and for three, no good. Rebound goes out and Phoenix will take the ball.

Commercial again, am i the only person that thinks this is ridiculous?


-Chris.

[ChrisWoj]

2:30 left, pistons hold a 46-45 lead.

[ChrisWoj]

And we're back. Suns bringing the ball up now. Nash with it. Bringing it to the center, kicking to Diaw who drives and scores.

Billups to Prince... to Rasheed. Sheed turns, misses the jumper short.

Suns breaking, but the Pistons set... and Diaw with a hell of a finger roll to make it 49-46 Suns all of a sudden! Rasheed looks tired out there... and Ben Wallace just got T'd up. Technical foul on him.

Nash will go to the line for the free throw. Nails it, no sweat. 50-46 Suns lead.

[ChrisWoj]

Pistons with it. Billups to hamilton, to Sheed who is getting doubled. Prince with it, and knocked out of bounds by the Suns with one on the shot clock.

In bounds to Sheed... and he NAILS the long jumper with nothing on the shot clock!

Suns with it... wait, Steal by rip to Sheed... And he's fouled on the dunk attempt by a desperate Boris Diaw, Diaw's third foul of the night.

Sheed will go to the line to try to tie this baby up. 50-48 Suns right now.

[ChrisWoj]

Rasheed puts the first home.

And Delfino checks in for the Pistons.

Sheed now up for his second... drains that baby to tie the game at 50.

Suns bring it up court, Nash with a no-look to House who misses. Pistons rebound to Prince.

Marion picks up his first foul of the game on defense, away from the ball. 50-50 with Ben at the line.. he misses the first UGLY free throw... and the second one glances off.

Tie game now. Diaw just came off the floor for the Suns.

Nash misses the floating jumper, but MARION slams it home with authority!

Suns with the two point lead now. Pistons looking for the shot... but Chauncey is fouled, and he'll head for the line. Kurt Thomas' second foul of the night.

Billups goes to the line with a chance to tie, 9.2 left in the half.

Billups hits the first. One point game, 52-51 Suns lead.

And here comes the second... 52-52 as he nails it.

Suns bringing it up court now. Looking for the final shot. Nash misses bad. Ben launches a loooong three that misses shy.

Knotted up at 52 as we come to half time.

Great game.

[Copper]

The Pistons look tired and a step slow on defense tonight. They arent boxing out for the boards and their just allowing the Suns to step in and get the boards. The offense really looks to be dragging when Arroyo comes in for Cnote, it seems like he wastes alot of time dribbling at the top of the key and we end up with a bad shot late in the clock....someone let him know that LB is in New York now...

[MLKG]

We've given up 10 offensive rebounds to the Phoenix fricking Suns in the 1st half.

Totally unacceptable.

[ChrisWoj]

The thing about us looking slow... is that we're playing tomorrow night against the Blazers. They're tired now... just wait until they play their second game in two nights against the Blazers. If they win tonight, I predict they'll win tomorrow night as well... but its going to be a bigger struggle than some may think a game against the JailBlazers would be.

[cpawfan]

I really want to see Max in this game and not just because I'm a huge Max fan. This is the type of team that he could do some serious damage against.