In all honesty, Brown needs to play Hunter and Campbell more. Campbell is bigger than he used to be and Shaq smaller. Plus he is way more agile and can exploit him defensively. Hunter is our best bet to stop Wayne. To win the Pistons have to stop one of the big 2. That formula mitigates the other and prevents the other guys from getting shots, which they cannot really do on their own. I think the series hinges on that rather than certain other theories.

So almost exactly what they did in game 4? They could have used both Hunter and Campbell more, which I would have liked to see, but I have got it give it up to Brown. He coached a helluva game. He shut down Miami by getting Shaq in foul trouble and not letting Miaimi get Shaq, Mourning and Wade on the floor at the same time.

I agree, I like Elden on Shaq, hes tall/big/strong enough to make Shaq work for it. Also, Sheed played good on Shaq, but he gets too many fouls too quickly and then we miss him on Offense.

IMO Shaq and Wade are just damn good, it hard to keep either of them from consistantly having good numbers, but we do need to prevent the big numbers (like 40 points). whats important to me is too keep all the other Heat players from having a breakout game and scoring 20+, rebounding 10+,etc. Wade and Shaq cant win it alone, i.e. Kobe & Shaq

Darko looks like the worst player on the floor whenever he goes out there near the end of the game. When you are one of the last people on the roster, and are put in there as a publicity stunt, you better work hard. When you are questioning someone's "desire to play", then he has problems. He's in the NBA. He's getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do something that's fun. I don't want to hear "he has no desire to play hard in a meaningless game".

And players aren't going to openly criticize their teammates. When have you heard the Lions say something negative about their teammates? You don't do that as a player. Of course they are going to say positive stuff about Darko.

Brian...Darko would kill you in one on one so be quiet