The Pistons can use any excuse that they'd like to, but it doesn't matter. This was a team that they should have beat.

Sure, they'll likely still win this series, but all of these extra games will start to add up over the course of the playoffs. While we're going 6 and 7 games, Boston will be going 4 or 5.

For a team that already likes to complain about being tired, that's not a good thing.