The difference between Spurs and Pistons

1)Spurs are tougher inside because of Duncan. Z had trouble. We missed Ben and we should have played Sheed at center.

2)Spurs have Parker who can drive

3) Spurs have a playoff coach and an offense.

4)Spurs are better on rotations

The game was remarkably similar to the Piston games. Notice Pop begged Le Bron to shoot in the 1st quarter. The Spurs are not much better than the Pistons. That leaves me wondering about our strategy and system.

Parker 16 of the Spurs 44 points in the paint. None of our guards EVER had double digit poits in the paint. In fact Cwebb was probably the only Piston that had double digit points in the paint. Duncan had 12 of his points is the paint too.

They had Genobli coming off the bench...we had an off and on Dice....

Dre,

The first game really points out what we lacked--a penetrator and a playoff tested coach. What has our management been thinking????

Cleveland actually played fairly well. The Spurs are not much better than us and we should be there playing them.

Let's see if Le Bron can get loose in later games as he did with us.

Barb we don't get too many other fans around here so that does make you a valuable member and I hope you post more.

Its hard watching this series and not wondering how the Pistons could have played the Cavs differently. I happen to think that the Spurs did not have much on the Pistons and that the Pistons could have beaten the Cavs - if only.

But the Cavs won and they are there. In watching game 1 I did find myself gravitation more to the Spurs. That does not mean that the Cavs cannot make a series of this, if they do I only hope its because they deserved it and not because the zebras helped them out.

I still can't believe we lost to a guy called Boobie. That cat needs to serously think about squashing that nick.

We'll see how it goes with free throws as well. Cavs only got 15 in the first game. I bet it only grows from here.

It's so obvious which makes it painful to watch. I really feel like with a different (defensive) tougher coach, we're right there w/ the Spurs. We match up much better against them than the Cavs do. It just sucks it turned out like this.

The post-season started out great. If the Pistons had played as well as they did in the Orlando series Clev would have went down in 5 or 6.

Pistons used to get better as the rounds went on and now they are getting worse. This has to be something looked at and if they are intent on keeping Flip then Flip has to find a way to figure it out.

I just woke up this morning and read a great piece of news. Game 1 score is San Antonio 85, Cleveland 76.

Points
Tony Parker, SA 27
Daniel Gibson, CLE 16

Rebounds
Tim Duncan, SA 13
LeBron James, CLE 7

Assists
Tony Parker, SA 7
Daniel Gibson, CLE 4

I guess Billups was right when he said the Piston is a far superior team than the Cavs. I hope the Piston is playing this tape over and over during the summer to see what they need to do next season.



HAHAHAHAHAHAH......Cleveland lost.

I don't like that he said that. Sounds like the Lakers in 04 when they said that they lost, the Pistons didn't win.

Come on, Chauncey is the team leader. What else was everyone expected him to say? He could have said the team sucks or Flip f'ed up in public but he didn't. The Lakers and the Piston are not at all the same. The Lakers was a one man army because of Kobe and the Piston is a unified unit. The Piston must have blamed each other for the lost but they didn't do it in public. The Piston in my book still have class.