it's good to have Detroit notch up a win despite shooting a crappy 40% to Indy's 46%. The bench is just week besides Dice, i don't think anyone else scored but him. I liked what Prince was doing out there, and Hamilton had his usual playoff type performance. Hopefully Det can string together some wins.
The 4th Q was weird, all except one shot for Detroit came from the baseline and Rasheed Wallace managed to miss 4 shots in 30 seconds. Detroit was just appalling inside as usual.
Anyways, it would have been nice to beat a full strength Indy though.
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by The GOAT on Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:58 pm
To me, this shows how good the Pacers really are. To even come close to beating the defending champs with and all-star out of the lineup is impressive IMO.
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by Matt on Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:38 am
what luck did Detroit have last year? They beat the Nets 4-3 after getting swept the year before, they beat Indiana 4-2 and w/o homecourt and they defeated LA rather easily 4-1.
You can mention injuries but Pistons had their own to deal with too. As i remember Nets still played Kidd, Indy still played JO and Lakers still played Mailman for most games. In fact, Lakers had Shaq and Kobe and as i remember that's all they needed to win 3 rings....and both played 5 games uninjured.
There was no luck involved....well ok maybe some, i guess Carlisle is an imcompetent playoffs coach and Kobe went for glory.
this year it will be tougher to win with a depleted bench and tougher defensive rules
You can mention injuries but Pistons had their own to deal with too. As i remember Nets still played Kidd, Indy still played JO and Lakers still played Mailman for most games. In fact, Lakers had Shaq and Kobe and as i remember that's all they needed to win 3 rings....and both played 5 games uninjured.
There was no luck involved....well ok maybe some, i guess Carlisle is an imcompetent playoffs coach and Kobe went for glory.
this year it will be tougher to win with a depleted bench and tougher defensive rules
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by Jackal on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:20 am
It wasn't luck that got Detroit the ring, that's bullshit.
It was Detroit's hardass defense, the ability to shut Kobe down and the fact that LA wasn't as hungry as Detroit was.
Detroit was the better team and they proved that.
It was Detroit's hardass defense, the ability to shut Kobe down and the fact that LA wasn't as hungry as Detroit was.
Detroit was the better team and they proved that.
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by air gordon on Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:09 am
what? indiana and detroit played on xmas too?! 
lol jackal hates kobe yet he's talking about him in almost all his posts. what a closet kobe fan
lol jackal hates kobe yet he's talking about him in almost all his posts. what a closet kobe fan
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