Truthfully, no reason why the Pistons lost last night.
Sitting there at the game, I found myself repeating “The Sixers can’t hang with us.” It just seemed that way, until the end.
After building different leads of 13 and 15, the Pistons slowly lost it.
For no reason though.
Look at these stats. No excuses.
The Sixers have NO post game, NO big men. Reggie Evans was throwing up fade aways from the free throw line and they were falling. He is also a career 51% FT shooter. 3/4 last night. That will not happen again. Dalembert, Young, Evans, Smith. These four guys should not be able to compete, at all against the Pistons big men. None of them have any post game. The only one that can score decently is Evans.
Look at these clips from the papers. Great.
Everyone is bashing the Pistons for this. “You could see it coming”
They’re going to come back, I have no doubt. It’s just that this shouldn’t happen in the first place. The basket on the south end of the Palace had a jinx on it. In and out, in and out. For both teams this happened multiple times, couldn’t have been level.
Pistons did it to themselves though, like always.
Rip and Chauncey, make your shots…and free throws.
Sheed and Billups easy shots at the end.
The play was not for TP at the end, nothing you can do about that.
But Andre Miller, in the paint. Stop him. He gets by one guy and he had easy floaters just about every time.
I’m not sure what happened.
Can’t let those leads slip away though.
Please
You are right. Everyone is bashing the Pistons for their “turning it on when it matters”-mentality, but if the people would watch the games instead of saying what they heard the last two years, they would see that it’s not true anymore. The Pistons played hard all year (in part because of the “Zoo Crew”
and the game vs the 76ers was an…anomaly. This won’t happen again and there is no doubt in my mind that the Pistons will destroy the Sixers in the next four games.