In honor of the Piston's win in Game 1, I'll copy and paste what I posted to BigDaikon a few days ago, immediately after the Pistons/Pacers series:

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Joined: 25 May 2004
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Posted: 2004-06-02 Wed 19:48:43 Post subject:
Alright, since I've watched almost every single playoff games so far, I'm qualified to ramble on:

First of all, I hate 90% of Lakers' fans. Especially waggon hoppers with Kobe jersey and Yankee hats. You know who you are.

But they're half of my home teams. Go Clips! We are number 2! The Ethan Hawke to Lakers' Jude Law (in Gattaca)!

The 4 HOF'er myth is complete bullshit. Sure Karl can still drop bows, but I'm gettnig sick of his chair-pulling and that first-down sign. And to be fair, even I can score here and there catching dimes from the Stockman. Since when do you see a HOF afraid to take open 17 footers? Okay, I concede: when KG's coming at ya. The way Karl slap-striped KG throughout the series reminds me of MJ stripping his ass before lauching his jumper over Russel--who's role is now reduced to a cheerleader with no tits on the Lakers' bench.

As for GP, he's more mitten than Glove now. Who's he gonna guard? Rip or Billups? And inexplicably he is still jawing and yapping like he's the shit. Frankly it's sad. Even Wally felt justified shit-talking back to GP's trash in Game 5. If the Wolves had either Cassell or Hudson healthy, this'll be the Lake show's final season.

And Kobe. I can't really talk shit, fearing anal rape. The man is unguardable on and off and in the court. But the whole media spinning the Kobe trip from CO to LA into some sort of Homerian Odyssey is just stupid. How hard can it be to get limoed and charter-jetted around? Sure the trial might be nerve-wrecking...only to your guilt-conscience.

Shaq. I love the man. f*** Kobe. Trade him for T-Mac and you get 2 more rings. Anyone who says Shaq's game is pure muscle and no skill has never touched a basketball in his life. Oliver Miller is 330 plus and I would pay a month's salary to see him jump-stop slam from the free-throw line, let alone spinning-baseline-oops. But the Yao Dynasty is coming, so Shaq better shap up.

When it comes down to it, my favorite Laker is Luke Walton. But his dad sucks.

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To add to the points made above, Larry Brown is ten times the coach+player Phil Jackson ever was. The Pistons had trouble scoring against a team like the Pacers only because it was coached by the former Pistons coach! Detroit has enough O to score against the Lakers and take 2-3 games from them, especially in the 2-3-2 format.

But at the end of the day, I will continue to cheer for the Pistons until Game 7.