Guys look at how close this series really was.....Numbers dont lie......

[maverick2112]

FG%....SA 216/503 43% DET 248/571 43%

Rebs.....SA 292 DET 287

Points SA 594 DET 607


Heres where DET lost this series

3 pt FG%.....SA 51-128 40%
DET 18-75 24%

51X3= 153 points
18x3= 54 points...........Difference of 99 points Pretty difficult to overcome that large of deficit.

Great shooting by San Antonio...........I guess Brown went into this series daring SA to hit a high percentage of 3's and they did...........tonight thats what killed them and it killed throughout the series.

Great series and I thought Det showed lots of heart and guts for extending it to 7 games.
Only gripe I would have for Pistons coaching staff is I would rather give a guy 50 points a game than give up multiple 3's. I have seen it through out the yrs that if you are not a team that shoots a lot of threes then it is suicide to consistantly give up open looks to a good three point shooting team. You just cant keep trading 2 for 3's.......it always catches up with you in the end if the team shooting 3's hits a good %.............Kudos to the SA sharpshooters....especially Horry's killer in gm 5..... :clap:

 

[pt1gard]

sorry about your loss Mav ... Horry was huge and was arguably spurs 3rd MVP player in series ... Once again, I lost my bet ... Dumars should shoulder some blame for trotting out those reject backup guards ... And of course Deet couldnt hit treys, their bench didnt have one of those animals, spurs had 3

 

[MrChristo]

Close, but no cigarillo, hey Mav.

fwiw, I think the best team won. They hit the big plays when they counted, and yeah, their bench stood up big. (Although I have to say that McDyess did a whole lot better than I ever expected he would.)

Hard to get a grip on what happened in the 4th....'Sheed was getting good shots over Horry and Duncan (as he had all series I guess), but after 2 consecutive scores they went away from him and missed 3-4 jumpers in a row....
Easy, I guess, to blame the big man for the loss in Gm 5, but his effort defensively cannot be understated. 8 blocks on Duncan before tonight, and I'm sure there were 2-3 at least tonight even. Great effort.

I think pt1gard has hit it on the head...One more quality guard to hit the shots Hunter wasn't (although, again, his defensive efforts and ball control were quite good, imo)..Maybe needed Arroyo to step up and be the pure shooting guard off the bench??

Anyway....As I said, I think the best team won, but surely now there's no-one out there that doesn't believe that these are the TWO best teams in America over the past 2 years. Period.

 

[IntenseOperator]

Numbers can be deceiving.

Those are just a small sampling of the dozens of numbers/stats etc involved.

You can probably run the last 20 years numbers for the Clippers and the Pistons, and they would probably end up quite close.

 

[snoozer]

Live by the 3, Die by the 3.

SA killed themselves in game 6 with the 3. Last night, was just the opposite. I still cannot believe how many open 3 they have had throughout this entire series.

I know LB does not like the 3 and doesn't like when his team relies on it, but come on, just because you don't like shooting it, doesn't mean you don't need to guard against it.

 

[JCRAcer43]

Wow the series was close when you look at the numbers. I don't mean to rain on your parade but The Spurs won with a convincing victories, when the pistons won it was a close game.

 

[jfhoops91]

I don't know if you can say that the Pistons won only close games. They blew the hell out of the Spurs in games 3 and 4 back at the Palace. After the two in San Antonio and then the two in Detroit I wasn't sure who held the series. All you heard was ESPN talk about how Billups was schooling Parker and Manu.... I don't buy that either. Billups is no MVP. He didn't do anything spectacular last year and certainly not this year.