From my reading of different artciles and seeing Detroit's playing of the last month, would it be wring to assume that Detroit only wants home court during the Eastern Conference games?? The finals format appears to be better for the team with the least wins. What do you guys think??

The way I read them it sounded suspiciously like Flip was spinning excuses in case they fall out of first. He might honestly hold that opinion, but it contradicts what the Pistons players have said all season long, and I don't believe a word Flip says unless there's independent confirmation.

And there is no way that not having HCA is beneficial. HCA really means nothing more than that a Game 7 will be played at your building, and I'll take Game 7 against the Spurs at the Palace over Whatever-phone-company-owns-it-now Center in Texas any day.

Ever since we "Cinderellaed" the 04 'ship we haven't played like a 1 seed should. Til this year. This is how we should be doing it - maximum spankage. So we get the favorites calls.

that angers me because whatever round it is you want HCA for Game 7. That's why the pistons have fought so hard this regular season. Sure the format might take a little away from the advantage, but it won't take away the advantage of having the 7th game on your floor.

Wrap your head around this.

If HCA is not important in the Finals (Game 6 AND 7, which IMHO is HUGE), then the Pistons must be very confident they can beat whoever they would face in 5 games. Isn't that just a little arrogant?

Sometimes I wonder if Flip believes the things he says. Because he really doesn't have the playoff experience to speak authoritatively on a 7 game championship series.

If you go back to the interview in the John Thompson thread

http://www.pistonsforum.com/detroit-...w-pistons.html

The starters make it very clear that they are playing for HCA. That they feel that HCA was the difference between winning and losing last season.

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They are the archetype for dominance. They are the gatekeepers of the conference. They are the Detroit Pistons.

keep in mind dallas and the spurs didn't play that well to end last season. we have some tougher games coming up, but most of our games are at home, while dallas has plenty more road games than home games. and a point brought up during the last game - the pistons have played the fewest home games out of any team in the league.

so i think we're fine and will snag HCA...crossin my fingers anyway!

I guess I needed an excuse as to why they were losing to God awful teams.

huge game today. if we lose and san antonio beats denver tonight we'll be behind...good thing is that san antonio is on a back-back, and this is miami's second consecutive as well.

Good thing the Pistons won both SAN games.

You get both games 6 and 7 at home. On the flip side if you are the home team and lose one of the 1st 2 then its an uphill battle from there.

04 was the 1st Finals win for LB so perhaps Flip will have the same luck in his 1st Finals.

This year no matter what happends its going to be the toughest competition to date and the most evenly matched finals since the Bulls/Sonics squared off in 96.

With as much doubt as I harbor about Flip & playoffs I think we need all the advantage we can get, specially HOME COURT.

You think there is anyway to also recieve a 10 point spot.