What are you talking about? IF the Spurs win this series, it will be thursday night, not tuesday night.

And damnit, that shot was sick. Motherfucker should have retired last year, he's like 53.

As I recall you only need 4 games to win the series. Hence Tuesday. Hence Spurs in 6.

Duh. I was disagreeing. I really hope, after two years of fighting back, that you don't think the Pistons will just lay down and die in the finals.

Stone cold killer, that son of a bitch Horry.

We had that game in the bag. Duncan choked his ass off. But it was the Pistons fault for doubling the wrong fucking guy on the in-bound.

Not over yet.

Hey Nimbletoe, you enjoy that as much as I did? :D :D :D

" Hence Spurs in 6."
Hence, you are wrong.

Win or lose in Game 7, Detroit is a much better than I ever gave them credit for. They play at a higher level in pressure games, similar to the most recent L.A. Lakers championship teams. I thought they had weak opponents the first two rounds of this year playoffs, but as the number 2 seed in the east, they deserved those matchups. They're playing to win, and going into a game 7 with a lot of confidence.

Two great games after the four snoozers to begin with! I was worried that the Pistons would blow this one too since I had notched in a W for them when they had possession and a 2 point lead with 15 secs to go. I'm not particularily partial to either team though if the Spurs won, every single one of my series winner predictions (waaaaay back in Post #1) will have been right.

5 straight when facing elimination. Still think the Pistons are going to lay down and die?

Depressing game.

The Pistons played horribly, particularly Billups. He looked like he was smoking crack out there, just going round and round in circles doing nothing. Didn't take one 3-pointer. Sheed should have got the ball more, Hamilton 6-18, Hunter blah, Prince blah. Big letdown.

The Spurs deserved the win. Tim Duncan was The Man.

i did predict that the spurs would win in 6 (post #65) but i guess i was wrong huh. but of course my prediction for duncan being mvp was without question :) but thats a no brainer.

now i can wear my 14 year old spurs hat with pride for another year ... usually it sits on my drawer cos its too frail and tattered, but im sure its gonna get a working in the coming weeks and months :D

Pistons shot poorly from the field as a team, but Billups didn't have a bad game, its just he didn't assert himself. He hit 3 out of 8 shots, got to the line a lot and sunk his free throws, and dished out 8 assists to only 1 turnover. He didn't shoot a lot, which was atypical for him, but up through the third quarter when they were up 7, him shooting less and passing more was working out for them. He actually did shoot three shots from 3-point range, most notably, the one Bowen blocked in the final couple of minutes. Hamilton and Prince shoot poorly from the field, and what I don't understand is why Lindsey Hunter jacked up as many shots as Billups did, in half the playing time. I guess he had one good offensive game in Detroit, but I would rather have 5 other guys shooting shots than him if I was a Pistons fan.

I will reiterate what I said in my last response. The Pistons are a damn good team, and they played well enough to win this series. Kudos to the Spurs and especially Ginobili. Parker and Duncan both struggled from the field in game 7, but Manu shot over 60%.

Jesus was that one painful to watch...Lindsey Hunter was driving me nuts too. To put it in perspective, Billups took 16 shots in game 6 and 26 in game 5.

He took 8 shots in game 7.

Oh well, Detroit had a great series. Winning 2 games by 20 and 30 pts, then winning game 6 on the road was strong. If it weren't for Horry's fluke shot in game 5, things would have been different. I'm still a Billups fan, the guy has been money in so many games, wouldn't trade him for anyone. Same with the rest of the Pistons. It was another great season for Detroit.

I agree with you 100%, except for one thing. Fluke shot? Definitely not. Horry has:
Hit clutch three pointers in the playoffs and NBA Finals since 1994
He was wide open, got his feet square
Horry was hot, had hit 4/5 from downtown already

I know as a Detroit fan, you want to say fluke, but as SA fan, one could say Duncan fumbling the ball out of bounds on a normal pass in the post and then missing in a wide-open put back to win the game is a fluke too. It is all a matter of perspective, and I just wanted to give you a hard time ;)

Heh, tis true unfortuantely. Duncan really should have put away that tip-in for the win. Karma's a bitch, I guess. And I did watch Laker Big Shot Bob sink (I forgot what team?? Spurs?) with that 3 at the buzzer, so Spur Big Shot Bob really isn't a fluke you're right. I guess I meant fluke in the sense that it had to come down to the hail-mary situation, instead of the Pistons being up by 10 at that point. :crazy:

horrys' shot is definately no fluke. he's done it time and time again. everyone knows the the go to man in that situation. its like calling michael jordans buzzer beaters flukes. when u hit em more than u miss, its no fluke. im pretty sure horry hit one in the finals against the lakers too did he not?

but yeah id agree that had the pistons won that game, it could have well been over for the spurs. but spurs are hard to beat at home two games in a row.