The Piston grinding machine back in action. It is as it should be. The Pistons can only go as far as their defense.

We did what we were suppose to do. NO JUMP SHOTS RULE against this team. We made them drive into the bigs or trap them. They could not beat us with drives (no D wade there).

I hope that we learned that you cannot give games away late in the playoffs. We were tight early and the Bulls did get better.

I have been harping to anyone who would listen since last year's playoffs that Tay was a major offensive piece that we were not using well. How huge was his game?

How about the jumper late by Sheed at the free throw line? That is there all the time and we rarely go to it.

OK. Bring on the next NBA hype team (probably Le Bron) and those Stern refs. Sorry, Sheed's monster slam was beautiful basketball as was Dyss block of Nocioni.