[Austin Kent]

vs.

Cleveland Cavaliers (17-10) vs. Detroit Pistons (24-3)

Saturday, December 31, 2005
Quicken Loans Arena
1:30

Probable Starters:



Zydrunas Ilgauskas l Drew Gooden l Lebron James l Larry Hughes l Eric Snow


Ben Wallace l Rasheed Wallace l Tayshaun Prince l Richard Hamilton l Chauncey Billups

Pistons Roster
Cavaliers Roster

This will be a good test against the next best team in the Central.

[Nocioni]

This should be easy Lebron is just like peja for prince

[DetBNyce]

Good, an early game... now I don't have to alter any of my plans to watch it. I'm hoping we don't have a letdown and we show Cleveland the difference between a pretender and a contender. Nothing against Cleveland, but I judt don't think they're at that championship level yet.

[Nutritionals]

Lol, did he just compare Lebron to Peja?!?!?!?!?

[Nutritionals]

Cavs are up 15 right now

[Copper]

Well, at least we cant play much worse...the shots have gone cold and Tay is getting all the shots for some reason and missing them. We have got to drive and kick more, everytime we drive the entire Cavs defense collapses like a house of cards in a windstorm.

[Copper]

We need to come out in the second half and start playin with some energy on defense, our shots will start to fall soon enough...but we cant let the cavs get into such a comfort zone at the offensive end.

[Nutritionals]

Ya, I was noticing that too. The Pistons just arent hitting the open shots they get, which is rare.

A good sign for the Pistons is that they are getting alot of second chance shots, and Ben Wallace looks to be doing pretty good.

[Nutritionals]

Holy crap, I just looked and Big Ben has 7off boards already.

[Copper]

They are playin terrible, and barring a complete change of play this is #4 folks. We are doing everything wrong and missing some rediculously open shots, this has nothing to do with Clevelands D and everything to do with our effort. I hope the players take a deep look and realize we got this record by playing smart, not simply showing up.

[Nutritionals]

Det. is getting some really good calls. Anything shot in the lane that dosent fall is an automatic 2FT's.

[Brian]

Got to see a lot of the game. We just didn't look good at all out there. We were getting open shots but couldn't make a thing. We also gave up way to many rebounds. That coupled with the cavs playing a good game equals a L. Can't win em all.

[Sixerfanforlife]

That's true, we can't win them all, but the O needs to get better FAST if we're going to secure the best record in the NBA, it won't take long for the San Antonio Spurs to catch up.

[Austin Kent]

Yea, this loss is understandable. The key thing is don't let one loss turn into back to back losses.