Pistons have been terrible. Shot terribly, not defended, gotten killed on the glass, you name it. Its the second night of a back to back. We need to come out and stomp on them and make the misery continue.
Key 1: Boogie has to domiante his matchup with Monroe. Monroe is off to a very mediocre start this season. Boogie destroyed him in one matchup last year, lost the other. This needs to be a win for him. Don't let him wake up.
Key 2: Stuckey might have been the worst player in the NBA so far. He's been completely awful. But we all remember last year when he lit us up in a huge way. That's Reke job. Keep him miserable. If you're going to embrace the role of defensive stopper, it never stops night in and night out. So don't let Stuckey even have a glimmer of hope the slump is over.
Key 3: Prince is getting old, but he too worked us last year because we were smallballing, and he's 6'10" with post game, and we had no hope of guarding him. Now we have JJ. JJ has to settle down enough on offense that we can keep him out there to check Prince and keep him from hurting us.
Squeeze them with our new found defensive energy. They played in Denver last night and fell to 0-4. If we smother them all night they'll fade late.