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I still can't believe what i whitnessed last night. The game should have been over, and the series would have shifted to the Motorcity with a 2-0 series lead for the Pistons. Less than 20 seconds on the clock, a 3 point Pistons lead, this should have been a classic moment for a Hack-a-Shaq, or something in that line. It was pretty obvious that the Lakers were going to Bryant for the last shot, so all they needed to do was grab his arm, his jersey, hell.... even pull down his pants for all i care, but definitely not let him take a threepoint shot. Everyone who ever walked down a basketballcourt knows what to do in such a situation, but Larry Brown and his team apparently forgot that last night. Kobe even had a few seconds to look for the right angle, and dropped the big one right in the face of Rip Hamilton, un-effin-believable !!!
What a shock that would have been. I enjoyed watching Rasheed thrashing Malone, Billups making Payton look REALLY bad, and the intensity that Ben shows when he goes up for a rebound, but this should NOT have happened. I'm afraid that somehow the Lakers will use this to their advantage in the rest of the series, they're always so damn lucky.
I just hope that the Pistons keep playing with the same defensive intensity in the remaining games, and we should see one hell of a series. I haven't seen such a well balanced defence since the Bulls of Jordan-Pippen-Rodman. For the first time in a long period, an eastern conference team doesn't look completely helpless against the big guns from the west.
KEEP IT UP DETROIT !!!
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