p5

pistons in five.

it wasn’t even close. you could make a case that they beat the lakers for five straight games, except for kobe’s miracle shot and the game 2 overtime. and taking it too the lakers in game five, leading by as much as 27 is just embarrassing.

it proves again the theorem that i tried to ignore during the season, but which i guess is proven again: you can’t win a title by buying a superstar team. the rockets tried it with barkley and pippen, and the blazers tried it with pippen and all those other bastards. of course, mostly i hated those teams because of scottie pippen. but the lakers tried it this year, and while they got to the finals upon the strength of their superstar team being actual hall of famers, they just couldn’t stand up to a true team that worked and played like a team.

and even the biggest indignity: darko seeing minutes in the final! how big a slap is that? (carmelo who?)

however, if karl had been healthy, it might have been another story, but i guess we’ll never know. my pistons earned it, and are world champions! the basketball world is as it should be.

and hell, we didn’t even burn down detroit this time.

i think the only downside is that all the excitement is what caused me to get outbid for that retro ben wallace jersey on ebay. not that i wanted us to lose game five, but if we had, i know i would have won this before game six… such is the price of success, i guess.

Posted at June 16, 2004 8:04 AM