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One thing for sure, Ben Gordon has to be contain as he is liable to explode on offense like he does off the bench. Guard the glass with authority and dominate the rebounding catagory.

Rip vs. Thabo- Watch this matchup close. If Thabo defends Rip real hard w/o foul trouble. The T-heads will have something going good on defense.

Westbrook, KD, and Green need to be on point once again for the T-heads.

Defense must be enforce on the Pistons perimeter game.

Be aggressive and get to the FT line.

Prince V Durant is a matchup I look forward to see.

This is a good matchup for us, as they dont really have a powerful centre/power forwards to out muscle our bigs.

Westbrook, Thabo and Harden will have busy nights.

Defense will be the key in this one IMO.

Simple. Limit turnovers and Hit the glass hard I think will win it for us.

Thunder 88
Pistons 82

I expect another big night (20+ points and 7+ rebs) from Kevin and Jeff. As you said, their frontline is kinda weak.

Thunder 98
Pistons 91

Billups is gone, Sheed is gone, McDyess is gone. Gordon and Charlie V are new, this is not the same Piston team that was competing for the Eastern Conf Finals the last 7 seasons or so.

I expect some growing pains from this new Pistons squad and I think the Thunder have a nice chance at a win.

I look for Westbrook to give Stuckey a tough time tonight.

For all the talk about Tayshaun Prince's defense, KD has done well in his four games against Detroit. Rip Hamilton sprained his ankle at the end of the Memphis game so he might not be 100%. Ben Gordon alone is better than our entire bench probably, so if Detroit gets up early it might be tough going when the subs come in.

Edit: Looks like Rip Hamilton is out with the sprained ankle. It'll be interesting to see if DET starts Gordon or Will Bynum.

More likely Gordon if Rip can't go. Which means the offense for the Pistons bench hasa chink in the armor. Time for the T-heads to exploit it. Go to work.

Gordon not being on the bench makes their bench offense well... almost as bad as ours

Thunder 15-1 if they hold the other team below 100 pts... DEFENSE

Hamilton not playing...

Smart timeout by Brooks

Kevin Ollie is useless, the offense looks horrible with Westbrook on the bench.

slick_watts wrote:Kevin Ollie is useless, the offense looks horrible with Westbrook on the bench.

yep, its basically give the ball to Durant and hope he scores.

Yeah we could use a solid back up pg. Looks like Livingston must be in the dog house, or just isn't playing well now. I'd rather see Weaver out there getting minutes.

Nice little shot by Durant towards the end of the quarter.

Ollie's also playing poor defense

James Harden is looking good on the offensive end making plays.

nice couple plays by Harden after a few bad plays.

It's good to see them hanging around in the game, last year this might be a 10-12 point lead by now. Detroit really feeling Rip's absence when they're going to their bench.

Really liking James Harden handling the ball. Etan Thomas and Nick Collison both looking great today.

Ibaka with some minutes.