Originally posted by Davo:
Hahaha...but there is a lot of that going around here.



Of course there is. That's all these threads turn into. I'm just trying to bring some basketball sense into the conversation. Sure, I'm a Pistons fan. No denying that. But I don't have my head in the sand or the clouds, either.

Originally posted by Davo:

If you take match-ups as a sole predictor of who will win, the Bulls would have gone roughly 9-73 this year. And the Pistons wouldn't have won the championship last year.



Of course I don't think that matchups are the be-all, end-all for a series, but it certainly gives you a pretty good idea of what might happen. I'll be the first to admit that Chicago had a surprisingly good season. But they've got no playoff experience to speak of... their best big man is out for the playoffs...they have a difficult time getting to the line... you've gotta look at it a bit more objectively than, "Well, they had the 3rd best record in the East and Ben Gordon rules and they play defense and they're young..."

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