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For the season, the bench is averaging 26.7 points, the most by a Pistons' bench since the 2004 championship team (26.8) - a squad that featured [Lindsey Hunter], Mike James, Corliss Williamson and Mehmet Okur.
"No matter what the lead is, they still come in hungry," Tayshaun Prince said. "They aren't content with just getting playing time. The bench is out there doing something with it. That's the reason why we are clicking right now."[Jarvis Hayes] (7.5 points per game), [Jason Maxiell] (9.1 ppg), and [Rodney Stuckey] (6.0 ppg) are scoring off the bench, and Afflalo (4.0 ppg) is tenacious on defense. Yet, in close games, [Arron Afflalo] doesn't play or he gets in for only a few minutes.Clearly, the Pistons and the Celtics are the creme de la creme of the East - and possibly of the NBA - and each now has won on each other's home court (Detroit beat the Celtics in December at Boston Garden.) Before the season started, many NBA watchers did not know what to expect from the 2007-08 Pistons after their embarrassing loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in last year's Eastern Conference Finals.See the full content of this document
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Pistons Bench Key to Title Run
AUBURN HILLS - I've watched the Detroit Pistons with one eye closed, still not completely ready to proclaim that Coach Flip Saunders has turned the corner in taking this team to the mountain top.
Saunders is now i...See the full content of this document
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