romsho
06-17-2005, 08:03 AM
So now we really get to see what can happen in a 2-3-2 series. Everyone is up in arms because the Spurs were thoroughly dominated by a championship team on their home floor in two games, but isn't that what happened in San Antonio as well? Detroit fan was ready to jump off the ledge, analysts who picked the Pistons were backtracking, and suddenly two games later it's a completely different story-who knew? Please. Would anyone have really been surprised if you said before the series started it would be tied at 2-2? If you were you shouldn't have been. Of course, no one thought the visiting team would play like dogshit in each game, especially two playoff and battle tested teams such as these, but apparently style of play and homecourt mean an awful lot in this series.
So now geniuses like Bill Walton, Greg Anthony and the like will get to puff up their chests and try and make their ill concieved prophetic statements playing up Detroit and giving the Spurs their last rites. And they will all be wrong again.
Phil Jackson said it in the pregame before game one, if Detroit is allowed to play extremely physically, and I quote "the refs have alot to do with that" then it could be a short series in Detroit's favor. Well you are seeing exactly that, but funny enough all the bumping, grinding, and hacking without impunity didn't happen until the series went back to the Palace. Again, who knew?
The talking heads will all like to say that the team that wins game 5 will win the series. If it's the Spurs then probably, but if it's Detroit what makes them a sure bet to all of a sudden win one in San Antonio? Just like the Pistons are playing the punishing style of basketball they need to succeed at home, I believe the Spurs will see the game and the floor open up at a pace and style that is more to their liking at the SBC center. Again, homecourt is the shit. Spurs in seven.
So now geniuses like Bill Walton, Greg Anthony and the like will get to puff up their chests and try and make their ill concieved prophetic statements playing up Detroit and giving the Spurs their last rites. And they will all be wrong again.
Phil Jackson said it in the pregame before game one, if Detroit is allowed to play extremely physically, and I quote "the refs have alot to do with that" then it could be a short series in Detroit's favor. Well you are seeing exactly that, but funny enough all the bumping, grinding, and hacking without impunity didn't happen until the series went back to the Palace. Again, who knew?
The talking heads will all like to say that the team that wins game 5 will win the series. If it's the Spurs then probably, but if it's Detroit what makes them a sure bet to all of a sudden win one in San Antonio? Just like the Pistons are playing the punishing style of basketball they need to succeed at home, I believe the Spurs will see the game and the floor open up at a pace and style that is more to their liking at the SBC center. Again, homecourt is the shit. Spurs in seven.