As you know, the pistons took the first
game of the eastern conference playoffs; sadly this was not the win that
everybody probably expected. It was, as the
Detroit Free Press put it "a lucky win that the Pistons almost didn't
deserve". Ouch, and that coming from the home
team paper, you can only imagine what Cleveland's papers must be saying if Detroit itself feels like
this. But really, can you blame the fans and
sports writers in the city for being like that? If you go back and
look at some of the stats from last night, you will see that the starting five
(excluding Rip) sucked. Tayshane was mediocre
at best, Billups was only there when we REALLY needed him, 'Sheed had an below
average, way below average showing in terms of what he is capable of doing
(especially with a matchup that the Cavs presents). And Webber just
looked plane terrible.
Another problem that
I had besides the fact that the starters where bad, was the fact that Dale
Davis was the high scorer off the bench!!! Dale Davis, not saying that he's bad
at his age, but where the hell were McDysse and Hunter. Well let me correct
that, Hunter had some good assts. and was good at on the ball defense so I
can't argue with that there but man, it was terrible. Oh, I almost forgot
to mention that when McDysse was subbed in for Webber, he did so bad that
Sanders went to Maxiell for help just to provide some kinda spark that the
Pistons needed. (Which he did very well).
The only thing that
went the Pistons way was their plane to shut down King James. LBJ had only 10 points 12 rebounds and
9 assts. that whole game. Now the points I
don't mind, that's a good thing and a testament to our defense, but its when
you start looking at the rebounds and assts that he got, that's when you start
to see what would have really happened if the Pistons didn't lock him up
defensively. He is basically trying to get his team
involved and it looks like it almost worked. As it was quoted in
the Detroit News "Lebron didn't have to beat the Pistons, his teammates
almost did that themselves". Truer words couldn't
have been said, Igaduages (I know I'm spelling it wrong, just too lazy to
correct it) had a team high of 20 points. When was the last
time he did that, especially against us? The answer is never. Basically this game was controlled by
the bigs, and the Cavaliers front court almost pretty much won out.
If the Pistons are to
do better, they must come out more aggressive than before, they must hit their
shots and they must get their big men active on both ends of the floor. To
match up with the double team that the Cavs did to Chancye, they probably
should go back to what they did before and start running some offence through
Webber or something, cause if they don't pick up the intensity and take their
game off auto-pilot, then they might just go back to having another 7 game
series and the thing is we might loose this time. If we don't, then we
(most likely) face a Spurs team that will have had plenty of rest and it will
be the 2005 Finals all over again, and nobody wants that.
Pistons,
we've got to do better!!
I'm
out, like Miami in the first round.
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