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05-22-2005, 01:33 AM
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Re: **Official Heat vs. Pistons Eastern Conference Championship Thread.**
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I don't think many people realize just how bad that Lakers team that faced the Pistons last year in the finals was. [/ QUOTE ] that seems to be the general opinion from people who don't wanna give the Pistons the credit they deserved...the Lakers sucked, but were good enough to weed out all the "best" teams in the West, but their true poor skills showed when the Pistons beat them...right 
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05-22-2005, 01:35 AM
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Re: **Official Heat vs. Pistons Eastern Conference Championship Thread.**
The Pistons were solid, but a lot of that Finals was just the demise of the Lakers dynasty, epitomized in one series.
And the Malone/Payton additions were extremely disappointing in the end IMHO.
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05-22-2005, 02:09 AM
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If Shaq is at his best I really don't think it's close. But Shaq will clearly not be close to optimum. However I hate the Pistons with a [censored] passion so I am just rooting for a series at this point. [/ QUOTE ] why ? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
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#16
05-22-2005, 03:02 AM
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Last years Lakers with Shaq, Kobe, Malone, Payton and Derrek Fischer was an awesome line up. --------------- The Heat are very athletic but lets not forget that the Lakers were also very good last year. In the playoffs the Lakers destroyed the west at will. [/ QUOTE ] did you even watch the playoffs last year?
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#17
05-22-2005, 03:05 AM
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Re: **Official Heat vs. Pistons Eastern Conference Championship Thread
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[ QUOTE ] Last years Lakers with Shaq, Kobe, Malone, Payton and Derrek Fischer was an awesome line up. --------------- The Heat are very athletic but lets not forget that the Lakers were also very good last year. In the playoffs the Lakers destroyed the west at will. [/ QUOTE ] did you even watch the playoffs last year? [/ QUOTE ] I did watch the playoffs. The Lakers turned it on at will and destroyed the west. Until they played the Pistons they looked unstopable. The only games where they were weak was the first two games of the Spurs series. After those games the Lakers turned it on and won the next 4 against the Spurs. If the playoffs ended after the Conference Championship round the Lakers would have been considered by far the best team last year.
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#19
05-22-2005, 03:55 AM
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The miami heat are much better than the lakers that the pistons faced last year. edit: assuming shaq is healthy [/ QUOTE ] Not much better. Either way, Miami's season ends in 5 games.
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#20
05-23-2005, 07:49 PM
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Re: **Official Heat vs. Pistons Eastern Conference Championship Thread.**
I guess I'll bump this since the game is tonight. I think this series will be closer than alot of people think *if* Shaq is healthy. Thats why it is so hard to gauge this series since it all comes down the how healed his bruised thigh is. If he can give the Heat 20/10 a night I think Miami will win in 7. Detriot almost literally has no bench since McDyess is their only guy that averages decent minutes while Hamilton and Prince are averaging over 43 min in the 11 games they have played.
If Shaq sucks though then Det. will just destroy Miami in 5 or 6 games since their defensive pressure will be too difficult for Miami to handle.
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