Is Detroit lollygagging?

[fearless]

If they are, who can blame them? They seem to have the number one seed wrapped up and the ghost of last season has to be haunting them (i.e. wearing themselves out in the regular season and having nothing left for the Eastern Conference finals).

If you examine the Pistons recent games:

Chicago L 88-106
at Indiana W 100-85 - trailed by double digits, came back to win.
Miami W 94-88 - trailed by double digits, came back to win.
New Jersey W 110-105 - trailed by double digits, came back to win.
at Chicago L 81-83
Denver W (OT) 113-109 - trailed by double digits, came back to win.

When I think of the Pistons right now, one word comes to mind: flippant (pun intended). I think that all this is reflected in them only being -5 against Cleveland. Billups admitted that the Pistons are kind of lallygagging right now (talking about Chicago):

"They came out aggressive and had a lot more energy," he said. "They looked like they wanted it more than us."

They still might beat Cleveland (who's been very inconsistent recently) but if the Pistons don't play their best, I look for Cleveland to win.

Any thoughts on this?

[bigboydan]

I think the comments Billups made pretty much summed it up a few months back. He said something like "it's hard to get up for all these meaningless games anymore, and we will just focus on the bigger games".

When read those comments way back when I knew better than to lay even medium wood with Detroit from then on out.

[go pistons]

PISTONS get it done today! They own the Cavs!!! They have to win to inch closer to rapping up home court! I think they rebound from that embarrassing loss to the Bulls and put a beat down on the Cavs today!

Think about this, if you were the Pistons wouldn't you rather have the Bulls as the #2 seed than the Cavs??? Just something to think about.........