Paul Pierce will be the fifth Piston for a day.

?I?ll just try to blend in,? Pierce said after Eastern Conference coach Flip Saunders? announced plans to send him out at the same time as the four Pistons on the roster - Chauncey Billups, Rip Hamilton, Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace. ?It will be fun to be a Piston.?

More specifically, he?ll be Tayshaun Prince, the lone Piston starter not here.

?I like it because Paul is a (6-foot-7) forward, and I just thought that he?d play well with those guys,? said Saunders, Detroit?s coach. ?I think he?ll really fit in with what we have.

?He?ll be the decoy. We?ll run our regular plays when we?re out there. That will be the most relaxing time of the game for me.?