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Detroit Pistons veteran Ben Wallace to start at power forward against Houston ...

HOUSTON – Ben Wallace will start at power forward for the Detroit Pistons tonight, with Jonas Jerebko coming off the bench, in an 8 p.m. game against the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center.

Head coach Lawrence Frank made the announcement about 90 minutes before tipoff, and said it would not be a multi-game experiment, as the Pistons try to find ways to improve their first-quarter and third-quarter defense, balance out their first and second units, and save Jerebko from early foul trouble.

“It's to set a defensive tone, bring some toughness, to take the challenge against some of these front-line guys, and also to see if we can have better balance with our second unit, as well,” head coach Lawrence Frank said.

Wallace, 37, had started 901 of his 1,039 career games entering Tuesday, so the role is nothing new, nor is what he brings to the Pistons: defense and rebounding.

“I'm going to go in there and try to set the tone in the post, protect the paint, force guys to play out on the floor further than they're used to playing, and just try to be that defensive anchor,” Wallace said.

Frank said the switch is “by no means” a reflection on the 24-year-old Jerebko, who had his best games in Detroit's three victories, but has had inconsistent swings on both ends of the floor, many of them prompted by early fouls.

“Jonas is a guy that brings a lot of energy to the game,” Wallace said. “Sometimes, his energy gets him into early foul trouble, which is not a bad thing; as his career goes on, he'll be able to control it, and basically pick his spots a little bit better. But in no way, shape or form do we want him to slow down and stop doing what he's doing right now. We still want him to come out there with that same type of energy.”

Frank said he expects Wallace to play the first six minutes of the game, after which the Pistons will settle into their regular rotation. Wallace will return in the second quarter, then play with the starting group again in the third quarter, Frank said.

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HOUSTON (AP)—Playing for the fourth time in five nights, the exhaustionwas finally starting to set in for Samuel Dalembert.

The nine-year veteran drew on his experience and finished with 14 points and12 rebounds in 34 minutes to lead Houston to a 97-80 victory over the DetroitPistons on Tuesday night, giving the Rockets their fourth straight win.

“At some point, there’s back and forth, you start to get a little fatigueda little bit,” said the 30-year-old Dalembert, who signed with the Rockets lessthan a week before the season began. “And then you just say, `Hey.’ You tellyourself you keep lying to those legs,” he said. “You lie to them. You say,`Hey, you have five more minutes.

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