THE NIGHT THE PISTONS DIED
April 24th. A date which will live in infamy.
A date that Pistons fans will remember for the rest of their lives.
The night the Pistons died as a team.
The night the Pistons got blown out by a team that didn’t even have a winning record.
A team that was just happy to be in the playoffs in a crap Eastern Conference.
Some of you will say, I’m going overboard, some of you will say I’m crazy, some of you will say I’m not a diehard Piston fan.
And you would be wrong on all accounts(although I have been called crazy).
Good teams do not get beat by the likes of the SIxers by 20+ points.
I’m not predicting a loss in this round, part of me still thinks they will probably do just enough to get by. But “just enough to get by” won’t work against a better team. It won’t work against the Celtics. Hell, it may not even work against the Magic or Raptors.
I don’t want to hear typical Piston cliches.
“We’ve been here before”
“If it aint rough, it aint right”
“We’re a veteran team”
Those sayings will fall on deaf ears this time around.


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