Maxiell: 'We're Going to Do the Roughing'

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 Maxiell: 'We're Going to Do the Roughing'
Notes from a trip to the NBA Playoffs . Dwight Howard may be the most dominant big man in the game, but the Pistons had a plan to contain him last night, holding him to just 12 points and eight boards as Detroit routed the Magic 91-72 . Flip Saunders talked about Detroit's strategy after the game. "You're not going to stop him. Tonight's game is not going to happen very often," said ... [link]

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Orlando gets chippy (and chirpy)
Published 5/5/2008 by Matt Watson at Detroit Bad Boys
From my FanHouse post on Saturday’s game: Things almost boiled over in the fourth when Rashard Lewis wrapped up Theo Ratliff under Detroit’s basket. Ratliff shook off the contact, but Lewis drew a technical, as well as an earful from Maxiell. “I wanted to make sure my teammate’s okay,” he said after the game. “We’re all family here, so I let it be known [if they] try to get physical, it’s not going to be that easy for them and we’re going to fire it back at them.” When asked if the rough ...

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