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One thing that Spurs fans and Pistons fans can agree on....
The Mavs are playing for third. :p
Things started going down hill when Harris, Howard, and Griffin went down. What are the Pistons excuse?
A Limerick for Mavsfan1000
There once was a ball team named Dallas,
Whose play often mimicked an Alice,
With their injuries three,
Mavsfans said "woe is me",
While the Finals were played at the Palace.
The End.
One thing that Spurs fans and Pistons fans can agree on....
The Mavs are playing for third. :p
mavsfan1000,Things started going down hill when Harris, Howard, and Griffin went down. What are the Pistons excuse?
What excuses? We don't have any excuses because there's no need. Excuses are for losers!
Going into the All-Star Break, here are the records of the 3 best teams
Pistons: 42-9
Spurs: 40-11
Mavs: 41-11
Here are the records BEFORE the Pistons beat the Mavericks last week:
Pistons: 55-14
Spurs: 54-16
Mavs: 54-16
So, if my math is correct ........... before the All-Star Break, the Pistons held a 2 game lead over San Antonio & Dallas in the loss column. And before our matchup last week, we still held that lead, right?
So, please explain to me how we have been going "down hill". If the Pistons have gone "down hill", then we took the Spurs and Mavs with us.
Bottom line is this: There is no need for excuses when your team is 58-14.
* The Pistons own the best overall record in the league.
* The Pistons own the best home record in the league.
* The Pistons own the best road record in teh league.
I'm out,
Like the Dallas Mavericks!
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GO PISTONS!
Nice rhyme.A Limerick for Mavsfan1000
There once was a ball team named Dallas,
Whose play often mimicked an Alice,
With their injuries three,
Mavsfans said "woe is me",
While the Finals were played at the Palace.
The End.
Actually, I think if the two teams play at their respective absolute peaks, the Pistons would play the best basketball possible. Having more quality players on the bench isn't that much of an advantage when 1) you can only play five players at a time and 2) teams generally only play a 7-8 man rotation in the playoffs.
If the Spurs put out their best five players, it's probably Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Bruce Bowen (maybe Finley because of offense), Tim Duncan, and Robert Horry. I would still take the five player group of Billups, Hamilton, Prince, Wallace, and Wallace.
I think if both teams play at their absolute peak, the Pistons have the best chemistry with their five top players, have a defensive mindset that could hold teams under 70 points in a game, play with an unselfishness on offense that involves ALL FIVE players on the court, and have an unbelievable energy that can't be matched by another entire team.
Glimpses of the Pistons playing at their absolute peak were seen in the 2004 NBA Finals against the Lakers where the Pistons absolutely stifled the Lakers and blew them out three times. Glimpses were seen when the Pistons held five straight opponents to under 70 points in a game.
I don't know if I've seen this Spurs team play at their absolute peak. And, if they did last year in the Finals, well, then their absolute peak was JUST good enough to beat the Pistons. We can't go back to 2003 because this team no longer has David Robinson. We can't go back to 2004, because they didn't accomplish their goals. We can look at games 1 and 2 of the Finals when the Spurs absolutely destroyed the Pistons. If that's there peak, that's pretty good. Difficult to fairly evaluate since the Pistons were not at 100% coming off of their series with Miami.
It's a matter of opinion, but I think the Pistons are a better team if the two play at their absolute peaks of their games.
Actually, there is one thing that troubles me and makes me worry about some kind of problem with the coaching, or our mental focus: Every game we've lost this year has been to an inferior team with a worse record than ours. How do you excuse THAT?
I don't think he said that to say anything bad on the spurs he just wanted to tell someone that the spurs won't blowout the pistons in a series.
I think the pistons are hands down the NBA champs this year. They lately have proven they still have their team defense in tack, and they obviously can put points on the board. Here's a break down of why the other 3 teams in the league that pose a threat (spurs, mavs, and heat) can't beat them.
Starting with your spurs. The pistons have just became to offensive for them, but remained just as good on the defensive end. The pistons can get dirty at the defensive end, but still put up big numbers of the offensive. Both teams match up well, but with the pistons improved offense, the spurs just cant keep up with them. Duncan isn't healthy and he already struggles with sheed anyways, and that is obviously gonna make it tuffer for them to really pose a threat. In a seven game series Pistons in 6
Mavs, you seen the game earlier this week they just don't have it. Their not a championship team and the spurs will knock them out in the playoffs anyways. They play ok defense, but at times like against the Pistons on Tuesday, they just would stop playing D, and you can't do that when you play at and a championship level. In a seven game series Pistons in 4.
The Heat are frauds. They are nothing but a poor mans 2004 lakers team. D-Wade is a star and Shaq is Shaq. They appear to have what it takes, but they can't match the Pistons play. You can force wade into taking a lot of bad shot, which is the same problem shaq had with kobe. Wallace x2 can keep shaq in check and wade not feeding shaq the ball, when he is supposed to will also help. Their pf are rather weak, and sheed will have a field day on the block against them. In a seven game series Pistons in 5.
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Whatever on earth could make you think that
Read the post and thats what makes me think that.
Last edited by cwalk989; 04-02-2006 at 12:18 PM.
so then Cwalk....the Spurs have absolutely no shot whatsoever?
Pistons need to step it up. Down by 14 at haltime against the Suns.
No chance at all!!!
Well, I guess thats that then. All hail the new basketball overlords!!!
Playing DOWN to the level of the compe ionActually, there is one thing that troubles me and makes me worry about some kind of problem with the coaching, or our mental focus: Every game we've lost this year has been to an inferior team with a worse record than ours. How do you excuse THAT?!
Some games the team that SHOULD win (on paper) just "coasts" along and then pick up their game in the second half. On some nights, however, it's too late to pick it up!
In other words, its easy for the team favored to lose to "get pumped" to play a contender than the other way around (confusing?)
Pistons beat Heat, Mavs, and Phoenix convincingly in their supposedly "rough" stretch of the season. They looked scary in the second half against the Suns...especially freakin Billups.
2-0 vs. Spurs
2-0 vs. Suns
1-1 vs. Mavs
2-1 vs. Heat
7-2 vs. the rest of the top 5. I'll take it.
The Pistons need to avoid NJ in the playoffs if they want to be in the Finals. This season they split the series 2-2 but the Nets held them to 84 ppg and 38% shooting in the four games.
I just hope Nets/Heat goes 7 in the 2nd Rd...
I'm glad I now know that the Spurs championship last year was a fluke.
Well, the good thing is that the way it's set up, if the Pistons face the Nets, that will mean the Heat are knocked out. IMO, I'd much rather face the Nets. It would be much easier on Big Ben to face Krstic than Shaq for 7 games. It would certainly help in the long run since going against Shaq sapped his energy for the first 2 games of the Spurs series, IMO.
I am very confident the Pistons can beat NJ in a 7 game series. Just as you said, they have shot 38% against them this season, and still managed to be 2-2. I'll take it. They also had a great chance at winning both of the games they lost. The 2 they won were pretty much blowouts.
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