"Greg Monroe and rookie power forward Vernon Macklin were joking around Wednesday night at the Prudential Center.

Macklin (and every one in the Pistons' locker room) was expressing amazement at the emphatic one-handed, left-handed dunk Monroe had just brought down only a few moments earlier on the Nets' Kris Humphries and Keith Bogans in the closing minutes of the Pistons' 99-92 victory.

"That was just a flashback to my 6-9, 225-pound AAU days," Monroe said in his deep baritone voice."