Pistons up 13 with 2 minutes to go in the 3rd

GO PISTONS!



and fuck Bolton!

Which teams are left?

...Heat vs. Wizards, Spurs vs. Sonics, Pistons vs. Pacers, and Suns Vs. Mavericks (with the former in each group being up 1-0).

The Wizards, huh. I don't really have a dog in that fight. I did like the Pacers though back in the day. Go Pacers?

the Spurs and Pistons meet in the Finals. The last two champs meeting is always a neat concept.

And now, we've got the fact that the Spurs play defense like Detroit, but have a fairly potent offense, as well, so we're not likely to see some boring 74-68 slugfests. 'Twould be the best possible Finals, I think.

Thank you Pistons for helping to pay for next week's trip to Alaska, 52-38 in the first half was so sweet!

That's one of my pet theories, anti-revenge favoring the home team. It's absolutely incredible in the NBA playoffs. If two teams met in the playoffs a year earlier, you look for situations where they meet again in this year's playoffs and the victor from the previous year has home court in this series. That was Detroit vs. Indiana. Then you wager on the home team in the first half of game one. The theory is simple; the winner from last year will smack the other team in the mouth immediately, to remind them they were superior and are superior. It's a devastating re-establishment of the pecking order, a jolt of reality to the road team.

This system is one I found myself. It had a run of nearly 10 years with virtually no losses. Then a few years ago it went 3-3 in the playoffs and my friends were pissed. They were counting on it to never lose. The Detroit/Indiana scenario was incredibly favorable because of the bad blood between the two teams from earlier this year. There was no way Detroit wasn't going to make an immediate statement atop game one.

The only time this betting situation seems to falter is if the home team is suddenly weakened due to injury, or coming off a long and draining playoff round preceding the anti-revenge series.

Indy making it a series again

I don't like the stupid RED state Pacers.