The Official DETROIT vs MIAMI Thread

[Arcane]

I was surprised hunter got a block and none of detroits big men did. It was a good game and glad to see Miami take the win...hopefully they can do it in game 4 as well.

[Matt]

im thinking Detroit will win Game 4.....not sure about Game 5, but if Miami win then i say Detroit take Game 6 & 7.

Detroit just need to put together a good, 12 min 4th quarter. And make their FT's and play some defence and start looking like champs and not chumps.

[Strike Freedom]

It's a battle between 1st and 2nd team of East.
Hopefully Miami can really maintain the no.1 spot in the east.
Whereas Suns' almost gone. 1st in the West is about to be swept by no.2 team.

[patrixxx73]

im thinking Detroit will win Game 4.....not sure about Game 5, but if Miami win then i say Detroit take Game 6 & 7.

Detroit just need to put together a good, 12 min 4th quarter. And make their FT's and play some defence and start looking like champs and not chumps.

I'm crossing my fingers on that Matt!

[Jackal]

Muahaha, I won't bother about predicting shit, I'm just glad Miami kicked Detroit's ass. Even if Detroit goes through, I hope San Antonio embarrasses them.

[Bang]

Go Wade!
Go Shaq!
Go Heat!

Seriously, IF Detroit wins (which won't happen but that's my opinion) won't we get the most boring finals ever?

Game 1 DET@SA 55-60 Duncan with 30 points
Game 2 DET@SA 40-32 Lowest scoring game...ever...Duncan with 30 points and Nazr Mohammed with the 2. Amazingly Ben Wallace scores 20 and Rip Hamilton scores 20.
Game 3 SA@DET 72-80 (OT) After the game was tied at 70-70, Detroit somehow manages to win despite Duncan scoring 36.
Game 4 SA@DET 99-100 (4OT) Duncan's shot at the buzzer misses and Detroit wins again. 99% of the crowd was sleeping by 3rd OT. 0 points were scored in the 3rd OT, making it "the most boring OT ever".
Game 5 DET@SA 20-22 A new record in an already very low scoring series. Duncan scores all of Spurs 22 points. Popovich gets very angry.
Game 6 SA@DET 90-82 The first decent scoring game.
Game 7 DET@SA 191-191 (Way too many OTs to remember, plus no one was awake anyhow) The first championship tie ever. After the referees died from exhaustion and darko scored 52 points, even the 1% of the crowd that wasn't sleeping after 3 scoreless overtimes were sleeping. Darko and Hamilton are the only ones alive, everyone else is just sleeping on the court. Darko claims he won the 1 on 1 game, but sadly no one was watching. Darko steals the championship and keeps on claiming it's his, trying to fly to Serbia-Montenegro with it. The officials proclaim this the first tie ever. Oddly, Darko and Hamilton were on the same team but Hamilton was way too sleepy to see who it was and Darko didn't really care, he just wanted to play so he decided to steal Bruce Bowen's jersey and play. (Bruce Bowen was put in a coma due to exhaustion) None of Darko's 52 points counted because
1) he was in the wrong team
2) nobody was awake
3) he's darko

[Amphatoast]

spurs show they can score vs. the suns.. it won't be that bad, it will just be in the 80s/90s mostly and a few upper 70s..

[air gordon]

surprised and disappointed to see the pistons team unravel like they did in that game. the game was turning in their favor midway through the 4th, as the pistons were putting their patented 4th qtr defensive run combined with clutch scoring. then eddie jones goes on a run, shaq man hits his ft's, and poof... the pistons get rattled... at their own home court

i expect billups to come back strong, detroit evens the series up, heading back to miami for the pivotal game 5

[Matt]

No series was worse than Spurs v Nets.

At least Spurs vs Pistons would be competitive series.

[Matt]

Pistons take Game 4, although at times it looked like Miami was gonna come back. Some nice shooting from Detroit but the FT shooting wasn't that good.

Darko, Dupree & Ham played.

Game 5.

[Jeffx]

As always, Game 5 is the turning point in every series. But I have a gut feeling we will see a seventh game.

[Matt]

Id detroit win Game 5, i say they take it in 6.

[dan_suth]

Id detroit win Game 5, i say they take it in 6.

Yeah- they seem to have a habit of going down 2-1 and coming back and doing just this. You Pacers fans remember?

I always tend to believe that whoever wins game 4 in a series that is at 2-1 will win the series... I wish I could find statistics for this, but it seems like it always happens.

[Fresh8]

they are both Elite teams.. anything can happen. I think Detorit will win the series... they can get it done!

[air gordon]

i hope the series goes 7. on the west side's it been a disappointing series so far... miami & detroit have to make up for that

[Fresh8]

I think they already have Air Gordon...

PHX can always win 3 straight!

[Matt]

well this one is over, time to prepare for Game 6.

i still think Detroit will win, but my confidence is slipping, after they let Miami go on a 11-0 half ending run they can't slip up in the next 8 quarters like that. They gotta start playing defense.

[Amphatoast]

well Wade is injuried now..

[Matt]

the Pistons effort is pathetic...where the hell is Rasheed, he's had what 2, 3 shots? he should be going @Haslem, instead Haslem is doing the scoring.

[Arcane]

bring on game 6 i'm hoping miami seal it in detroit

[fgrep15]

Ahh! If Wade is out it will definately be huge. The Heat will need a very big performance from one of the Jones' or Rasual Butler in order to get over the hump. No Wade and a 75% Shaq is just not going to get it done unless the Heat really come out firing.

[Strike Freedom]

how did wade get injured?
and how did mourning get 4 blocks again?

[cyanide]

...

What the hell is wrong with Detroit?

[Amphatoast]

is it just me or does it look like mourning is on some drugs?
he comes out full of energy swatting shots like a beast and is just all over the place like he got injected with something

[COOLmac©]

looks like he got hold of a detroit drug stash...the pistons just look so sluggish