>Ugly, ugly game, where we saw the bad Hamilton emerge in the place of the
>good Hamilton who's been playing the last few games. He's not the only one
>to blame, of course. Billups stood up and took...

> Going into game 3, they need to do a better job of chasing those guys
> off of the 3 point line.

> They've done as well as you can against
> Howard. He's going to get his points. The key is to not let him
> dominate. Cutting down the passing lanes so the guards and/or
> forwards can't make those passes into the paint to him will help.

> Theo, Jason and Sheed have all done well against him. McDyess has
> done OK at times also. I'd rather Sheed not be on him at all because
> Detroit needs him to start getting his points and rebounds going
> forward.

> SkippyPB nospam.neo.rr.com> wrote in
>

>> Going into game 3, they need to do a better job of chasing those guys
>> off of the 3 point line.  

>
> They can be a bit quicker defending, but if the Magic shoot as many 3s as
> they did last night, I like the Pistons chances for the series.  Orlando
> may shoot an even better percentage one night, but they'll have at least
> two where they do worse.
>

>> They've done as well as you can against
>> Howard.  He's going to get his points.  The key is to not let him
>> dominate.  Cutting down the passing lanes so the guards and/or
>> forwards can't make those passes into the paint to him will help.

>
> They're not doing a great job keeping him away from the basket on
> offensive rebounds, but then it's a very tough job.  All in all he's not
> killing them, and that's good news.
> ...

>
> Maybe in this world of internet tubes and pipes it's time for the
> refs to keep time.
> I doubt it will lead to any more accuracy, but it
> will at least change the conspiracy theories from home cooking to
> league crookedness.

>
> One big question mark is whether Orlando can take better care of the
> ball. If they don't, Detroit cruises. So far, Turkoglu's been coughing
> up the ball a lot, and I don't think Orlando wins this series unless he
> starts playing much better very quickly.

> Grey Matters wrote:
>

>>
>> Maybe in this world of internet tubes and pipes it's time for the
>> refs to keep time.
>> I doubt it will lead to any more accuracy, but it
>> will at least change the conspiracy theories from home cooking to
>> league crookedness.

> "Terraholm" hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:68bqq5F2prv4cU1@mid.individual.net:
>

>> Grey Matters wrote:
>>

>>>
>>> Maybe in this world of internet tubes and pipes it's time for the
>>> refs to keep time.
>>> I doubt it will lead to any more accuracy, but it
>>> will at least change the conspiracy theories from home cooking to
>>> league crookedness.

>
>
>
> Clearly, I need to explain to you about what I meant by Internet
> tubes and pipes. You see, it's a series of tubes. Ten movies
> streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own
> personal Internet? I just the other day got an Internet was sent at
> 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it Tuesday. Why? Because ...

> On Tue, 6 May 2008 12:44:59 -0700, "Terraholm"
> hotmail.com> wrote:
>

>> Grey Matters wrote:
>>

>>>
>>> Maybe in this world of internet tubes and pipes it's time for the
>>> refs to keep time.
>>> I doubt it will lead to any more accuracy, but it
>>> will at least change the conspiracy theories from home cooking to
>>> league crookedness.

>>
>> The refs do start the clock. The 3 refs on the floor push a button
>> on a little computer pack on their belts to start the clock and the
>> signal received first actually triggers it. The time keeper also
>> manually starts the clock just in case the electronic ones fail. So
>> there are 4 people. The computer pack also has a mic that is set to
>> the whistle frequency and a signal is sent that stops the clock
>> automatically when any of the 3 refs blow their whistle. ...

> Ugly, ugly game, where we saw the bad Hamilton emerge in the place of the
> good Hamilton who's been playing the last few games.  He's not the only one
> to blame, of course.  Billups stood up and took responsibility for Prince's
> bad shot at the end of the game when Billups got stuck with the shot clock
> running out.  On the other hand, he did make the tough shot with negative
> time....
>
> Maybe in this world of internet tubes and pipes it's time for the refs to
> keep time.  I doubt it will lead to any more accuracy, but it will at least
> change the conspiracy theories from home cooking to league crookedness.  
>
> At any rate, Orlando again dug themselves into a deep hole with their
> turnovers, but they played a lot smarter in setting up their offense and
> this time got a lot of 3 pointers.  On the other hand, Detroit didn't panic
> while the rain was falling and avoided one of the collapses that killed
> them against the Sixers.  They need to do a better job blocking out Howard
> (not that it's easy) and they need to get more and quicker cuts by players
> without the ball on offense, but they did a great job protecting the ball
> and mostly took good shots. ...