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I agree about running the fast break, Spencer. The Pistons know that they are faster at every position (with the only exception being a deadlock at shooting guard between Kobe and Rip), and especially faster at center and power forward. Anytime the Lakers (Kobe) take an ill-advised long-range shot, the Pistons swarm to the rebound and are off and running.
You'll probably see even more of this in the next game, because the Lakers (especially Shaq & Malone) only have one day of rest. Shaq in particular has been slower and less effective in games after only one day of rest. There should be lots of oppotunities for the Wallaces to run the floor.
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orangesoda
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By "due" I'm not saying he will, just that if you look at his averages you'd expect him to have a game or two in any 5 game span where he hits a good percentage of the difficult shots. He has a definite ability to "turn it on" sometimes, just he isn't terribly consistant with it.
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This is where the comparisons to MJ are really unfounded IMO (the other is FG%). Jordan (the Chicago one) virtually never had two 'bad' (for him) games in a row, and even if he did from a scoring perspective, he would come up with some other aspect of the game to have a special performance in. A triple double, great defense, something. Also Jordan was facing this kind of defense for most of his career, and used that to the Bull's advantage. Scottie Pippen never had to use his decent post game with MJ to average 20ppg, cause he got that on layups (the years MJ was out you got to see Pippen's real talents). Kerr/Hodges/Armstrong/Paxson shot high percentages on 3's cause 2-3 guys were always running at MJ. Longley/Cartwright/Wennington just had to shoot uncontested 15 foot shots.
The Lakers could be doing the same things, but not through Kobe. Shaq is their dominant post presence, and the guy who generally gets the ball where it needs to go (in the hoop, or to an open teammate). Malone did this for them a lot when he was healthy. Payton is the other one they could use in the post, but given that they haven't worked on it all season, it's too late to try now.
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12 minutes to go.
Pistons up by twenty-three points. No doubt about it, they are simply the better team.
WUTANG!
And, as a side note, Larry Brown's wife is HOT.
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holy ****, the lakers are getting smoked!!!
To think, if kobe hadn't had made that three, this woulda been a sweep.
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Goddamn it, here I am stuck in friggen Columbus friggen Ohio.
Oh man, I'm so geeked about this.
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Guynemer
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He was solid on Shaq. Huge lift off the bench, especially when 'Sheed kept getting in foul trouble.
Hopefully this will finally shut up all the talk about how we should have taken Carmelo Anthony in the draft instead of Darko. No way, NO WAY, he plays that kind of defence on Kobe Bryant. Tayshaun Prince might not be as good a scorer, but he is a better all-around player; we didn't need Carmelo, and we won't need him in the foreseeable future.
You know, everyone talks about how Joe Dumars got Ben Wallace for Grant Hill, and how it turned out to be an incredible steal.
But what they don't mention is that we also got Chucky Atkins out of that trade. And Chucky Atkins was the only player of any significance that we gave up to bring in Rasheed Wallace.
So Joe Dumars gave up Grant Hill, who has played maybe 40 games in the past four years, for Ben Wallace AND Rasheed Wallace.
Thank you, Danny Ainge! Your championship ring is in the mail!
And thank you, Michael Jordan, for giving up Rip Hamilton for Jerry Stackhouse!
Joe Dumars was my favorite player when I was kid; I had no idea he was also an evil genius.
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