Does it matter who comes out of the East?

whottt you may have to change that avatar back to Romaine Sato for good luck soon..

King James in the Finals.... please, no.

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They aren't as good as they appear to be. And they have a structural weakness which happens to be a catastrophic mismatch with Clevelands structural strength.



The Pistons match up with the Cavs a hell of a lot better than we do...do they look like they are having fun?

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Well, then I guess we'll just have to find out.

Just imagine if Detroit didn't have the personnel to guard LeBron...like us.

I mean hey...there are things we can do...

#1. Parker has been playing at SuperStar level...
#2. Elson might be able to actually do something against LeBron. He just might.

But just looking at the matchup...it's matchup hell for us.

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Just imagine if Detroit didn't have the personnel to guard LeBron...like us.

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Detroit doesn't have Duncan. Detroit doesn't have a Parker who is always getting into the lane and being aggressive. Detroit doesn't have a punch off the bench in Ginobili. Detroit doesn't have sharpshooters from 3 like Finley, Bowen, and Barry (when he's at home :lol). Detroit doesn't have role players that offer intangibles, like Oberto and Horry.

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Just imagine if Detroit didn't have the personnel to guard LeBron...like us.

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they don't

The Pistons D has been horrible. No doubles for most of crunch time, and weak doubles when they did. No one steps up to stop penetration and take a charge or challenge the shot. Pathetic.

I don't know that our D will be significantly better than Detriot's. I do think that we are the better team and are playing at a higher level.

One thing I can say with confidence is that it looks pretty well like we're going to get the chance to find out how we can fare over a 7 game series against LeBron and Co.

LeBron James is going to shoot 30 free throws A GAME against us....

with the way tim, manu, tony, and also oberto are playing, it really shouldn't matter

LeBron is great, but the Spurs, as a team, are WAAAAY better than the Cavs. Spurs would smoke the Cavs...5 games, max!

You know they more I think about it, yeah we can't stop LBJ, but they can't stop Timmy, Tony, or Manu. Rasheed always gives Timmy trouble as does Billups on TP.

Pessimism aside, the key to beating the Cavs (if we face them) would be to take them dead seriously every-freakin-game. The announcers have made it cliche but really, it does seem like Detroit took the Cavs for granted for some of this series. The Spurs can't do that. Play to their full potential and its going to be very tough, but we still got Tim.