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needs
20 Apr 2005, 01:12 PM
Sorry, but you're praise for D-town isn't impressive. Hotlanta has rookies (two starters); young players with some "seasoned" veterans on the team, but they WORST team in the league. You guys lost to them once this season at home (yes without wallace and mcdyess) and struggled to beat them the game before todays in OT. Pistons only won last year because payton, malone weren't putting up numbers and I wouldnt contribute it to the Pistons "defence," they were just horrible in the playoffs. Payton isn't/wasn't comfortable with the triangle offence either. D-town ain't gon win this year, have you forgot about umm...Miami and the West?
Give. It. Up.
Funny how the Lakers made it as far as they did. I guess it was just a coincidence that Payton, Malone, and the rest of the Lakers other than Kobe and Shaq couldn't score.
The Pistons don't really shut down team's best scorers, but they make it really hard for players 3-9 to score. The eat up mediocre offensive players because they're so long across the front line and because they contest everything. If they beat the Heat, it will be because they blank their role players.
skipshady
20 Apr 2005, 01:19 PM
Give. It. Up.
Funny how the Lakers made it as far as they did. I guess it was just a coincidence that Payton, Malone, and the rest of the Lakers other than Kobe and Shaq couldn't score.
The Pistons don't really shut down team's best scorers, but they make it really hard for players 3-9 to score. The eat up mediocre offensive players because they're so long across the front line and because they contest everything. If they beat the Heat, it will be because they blank their role players.
Definitely. The Lakers didn't get to the Finals by accident. Of course, one could point out that Derek Fisher didn't have time to catch and shoot the buzzer beater against the Spurs and a healthy Sam Cassell would have given Payton fits, but at the end of the day, the Lakers beat two teams who were favored to win the whole thing.
The Pistons are for real. Though personally, I'd love to see the Baby Bulls make the finals (I know, not happening).
Val1
20 Apr 2005, 01:49 PM
The Pistons are for real. Though personally, I'd love to see the Baby Bulls make the finals (I know, not happening).
Kind of amazing when you look at it that you even had to make that point, skip. Has there ever been a champion who has received less respect than the Pistons, especially given that they lost noone from last year? They had the obvious re-peat blues ( a little of the old edge gone, everybody gunning for the champs), the illness of their coach (who's more significant in this case than most coaches), and the Melee in the Hills. I'm certainly not ready to crown them champs (I haven't prematurely crowned any team champs since the last of the Bulls' first run) but every team's got problems this year, and the Pistons will make you work for every shot.
hangthadj
20 Apr 2005, 02:19 PM
They beat ATLANTA with no Rasheed, no Rip, and the other three starters all played half the game or less. Darko...yes, Darko...played 30 minutes. Carlos Delfino played 41, Carlos Arroyo 29, heck even Elden Campbell logged 21 minutes. They were up by 36 and coasted the entire game, and it was on the road.
Philly's got no shot. None. 4-1 for the Pistons, max.
Capped and bolded for emphasis.
I think Detroit will win the series, if that is the series we see. I think the Sixers win two though.
dark knight
20 Apr 2005, 02:35 PM
Started tomorrow's thread a day early - get your predictions in now:
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191114