Ran Over By Rasheed

Thursday’s night's game against the Detroit Pistons was a bit sluggish for the Mavericks. The Detroit Pistons made rain out of the 3-pointer all night, and ran Dallas off their own court. This Pistons defeated the Dallas Mavericks 92-82 as Dallas suffered their first double digit loss to an Eastern Conferce foe at the American Airlines Center in exactly two years and one day, when who-else but the Pisons edged the Mavericks 101-84 on December 6, 2004. (kind of creepy huh?)

The Pistons played together as a team and used excellent ball movement to their advantage. They seemed to do nothing else fancy other than pass the rock to the open man for an easy bucket.

Last year when the Pistons played the Dallas Mavericks they were blown out by 37-points early last season. The Pistons trailed 40-16 after the first quarter last year, but this year the Pistons wanted redemption.

Tayshaun Prince led all Detroit players with 20 points, "Rip" Hamilton added 15 points, Chauncey Billups scored 12 points and dished out 11 assists. The Pistons looked more like the Pistons team that recently won eight straight than a club that had fallen in its last two.

For the Mavericks it was a pretty pitiful effort all around. They had no energy the entire game and the only main contributors were Jason Terry, who scored 17 points, and Big "now consistent" Dampier, who scored 12.

The only highlight of the game was the fact that 120 military personnel sat courtside for the entire game in part of the third annual "Seats For Soldiers" event. This has been a fabulous tradition where season-ticket holders donate their seats to the soldiers. All I can say to them is I hoped they could have seen a more competitive game, because this game stunk.

- Big-D Sports