"If the Spurs prevail Thursday, they're still the flimsiest champ since the '94 Rockets."
Well, where does that leave the Pistons? Worse than the flimsiest (potential) champs? The worst finals team ever? Jerk.
"Again, a great team would have knocked them off already. But that's the thing about the Pistons – in a league without a single great team, these guys are so mentally tough that you have to blow them out of the building to finish them off. In the words of Teddy KGB (thick Russian accent), they keep hannnnging around and hannnnnnging around. And nobody has the firepower to get rid of them."
This completely discredits the Pistons. I think it has to do with a lack of appreciation of the way they play. And besides, isn't being mentally tough part of being a great team? In fact, isn't that what makes them a great team? Winning a title and then getting back to the Finals the next year is a tremendous accomplishment, one few teams achieve.
They disprove the rule that you must have a Hall-of-Fame to win, and no one has quite factored that into their calculus. The team with the best player does not win a playoff series, no matter what conventional wisdom states. Since last year, here are the players we've faced that are better than anyone we have, and they're all going down:
Jermaine O'Neal (twice) Ron Artest Jason Kidd Richard Jefferson Kenyon Martin Shaq (twice) Dwayne Wade Allen Iverson Tim Duncan Manu Ginobili
Actually, I posted that in a comment and not a main post because I sort of agree, too. I should have said that all those players have been called better than anyone on the Pistons at some point.
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"If the Spurs prevail Thursday, they're still the flimsiest champ since the '94 Rockets."
Well, where does that leave the Pistons? Worse than the flimsiest (potential) champs? The worst finals team ever? Jerk.
"Again, a great team would have knocked them off already. But that's the thing about the Pistons – in a league without a single great team, these guys are so mentally tough that you have to blow them out of the building to finish them off. In the words of Teddy KGB (thick Russian accent), they keep hannnnging around and hannnnnnging around. And nobody has the firepower to get rid of them."
This completely discredits the Pistons. I think it has to do with a lack of appreciation of the way they play. And besides, isn't being mentally tough part of being a great team? In fact, isn't that what makes them a great team? Winning a title and then getting back to the Finals the next year is a tremendous accomplishment, one few teams achieve.
They disprove the rule that you must have a Hall-of-Fame to win, and no one has quite factored that into their calculus. The team with the best player does not win a playoff series, no matter what conventional wisdom states. Since last year, here are the players we've faced that are better than anyone we have, and they're all going down:
Jermaine O'Neal (twice)
Ron Artest
Jason Kidd
Richard Jefferson
Kenyon Martin
Shaq (twice)
Dwayne Wade
Allen Iverson
Tim Duncan
Manu Ginobili
Actually, I posted that in a comment and not a main post because I sort of agree, too. I should have said that all those players have been called better than anyone on the Pistons at some point.
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