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missed series with the Suns
With Rip Hamilton alone they are a good offensive team.
Detroit will be tough as a mofo to beat.
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missed series with the Suns
Don't underestimate the heart of a champion.
hahahahah yeah he did...and so did most of the idiots in these forums claiming their team might win easily in SA.
LOL.....Lindsey Hunter.
Lindsay Hunter sucks on offense though. He won't be playing much so he won't be a factor.
I don't see the EAST is BEST .....anywhere...
West Worst = East BEST!
Rip was terrible against Bowen this year. What do you have to say to that?
Bowen shut him down pretty badly and Manu is no slouch on defense either. He can be just as effective as Bowen in small doses. Don't think Rip couldn't end up in foul trouble real quick guarding Manu either.
Personally I think Ben is a great weak side defender but just an average one-on-one defender. Bowen is the more talented one-on-one defender. The fact that Sheed will guard Duncan more than Ben bears this out.
Resorting to city smack? And from people defending the one of the dumpiest cities in the country? Detroit has been at the forefront of civil unrest for a century. It's got its issues. Talking city smack while defending Detroit? Lol...
Back to basketball:
In my mind, the Prince/Ginobili matchup will be key. I really feel like Prince can slow Manu down with those long arms and good lateral movement. Prince can also score some points if the Pistons run some things for him. I can see the advantage the Spurs have with that matchup turning out to be smaller than many think. Advantage Spurs, but not by much.
The Pistons also have the capability to cover Duncan pretty well. Rasheed always does a good job against him and Wallace is a very good help defender. Tim will have to be patient, but he always does a good job with that.
Even so, the Spurs have so many options offensively. They've certainly got more than they've had in the past. Parker, Ginobili, and Duncan are great creators. Barry, Beno, and Horry can shoot the ball. And Nazr, Glenn, and Bruce can get you points if they are put in the right situation.
This series will be the toughest yet for the Spurs, but I still don't see how the Pistons can score enough points to win. They will need big contributions every night from two of these players: Prince, Hamilton, and Billups. I'm not sure it's going to happen.
But it could. The Spurs should win the series, but the Pistons are capable of winning it.
after todays announcement from GM firing 25,000 employees in next few years and Ford plain sucking,Detroit is ONE dangerous place!
Peace be with us.
You have to factor that the Spurs play 66% of their games in the West, while the Pistons get 66% of their games in the East. Because the West is more wide open, the Spurs perhaps are a little more ahead of the Pistons on defense, and the Pistons may not be as far behind the Spurs on offense as you project.
While the Pistons sometimes appear to go flat on offense, as Spurs fans of the last several half-court imposed years, we should understand. The Piston's increase their odds of victory by forcing teams into the half court, and against all of the East they can do just that. And when you focus mostly on defense, the offense can become off balance.
Just as the Spurs were forced to show different colors against the Suns, the Pistons will have to prove they can push the ball against the Spurs, if they are going to stay in this series for long.
Please put Hunter on Ginobili.
I can't wait till we do, Hunter can't play offense for crap, but that boy can defend and whenever he was on the court against Wade, Wade struggled. Unless you are saying Ginobili is better than Wade, in which case.
Ginobili's a little bit bigger than Wade. If we were talking about Parker you might have a point.
Hunter isn't that great, Piston fan.
Wow, amazing insight. Not only resonable and fair but accurate and with facts to back you up. Golly, I guess we're screwed after all.
Don't believe the hype. Six of the top ten scoring teams came from the EC.
Do Pistons fans remember that in the first matchup this season, the Pistons didn't score a field goal from 7 seconds left in the second quarter until 4:30 left in the third quarter?
Do you guys attribute that to just a fluke of a scoring drought? Or do you think the Spurs just shut you down?
Yep ....it was a fluke!!
LOL!
It wasn't the playoffs
I only brought it up because out of the 2000 posts or so in the last 24 hours, I haven't see a Pistons or a Spurs fan mention it.
It was one of those beautiful shut down stretches that the Spurs had several of this season (and the Pistons have too).
I know that some people are concentrating on offense (and yes, 4th quarter execution is going to be vital) but these beautiful stretches of just simply shut down D are going to be great.
The "scoring drought" issue comes up before every pistons matchup and sure enough, the pistons end up having a few of them and they go on to win anyway. It's just one of those things. What seldom is mentioned in conjuction with that is the pistons tendency to go on scoring runs too.
Apparently it is rather difficult for the Pistons to go on one of those "scoring runs" against the best defense in the NBA.
Imagine that.
Apparently they rallied from a 21 point deficit to cut it to 1.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=241203024
Still lost. And , the Spurs spotted you Rasho Nesterovic in the starting lineup.
Imagination... as in yours, being the operative word.
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