Yesterday, Drive and Dish opined that the Detroit Pistons are the best team in the NBA. We said that we weren't surprised that they had taken it to Chicago (despite Chicago's sweep of defending NBA champ Miami in round one) in the first two games of their second round playoff series. Tonight, Detroit beat Chicago to take a 3-0 series lead.
Chicago is simply not in Detroit's league. Signing Ben Wallace away from Detroit wasn't enough to make Chicago a true contender in the East. Chicago will have to acquire Chauncey Billups, Rasheed Wallace, Tayshaun Prince, Antonio McDyess, etc. in order to get past Detroit in the near future. Oh, and just in case you're thinking about how Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and the Chicago Bulls couldn't get past the Bad Boys of Detroit in the late 80's and 1990, but eventually broke through in 1991 ( en route to winning the first three of their six NBA titles) - and are thinking that there's some kind of parallel going on now ... forget about it. This Chicago team is not "learning how to win," "gaining playoff experience" or any other tired cliche that many Chicago fans are, undoubtedly, spouting as supposed "words of wisdom" in order to explain Chicago's hideous play. This Chicago team doesn't have developing stars (don't be fooled by Luol Deng's output against Miami- Antoine Walker and Jason Kapono took turns "guarding" him - he's not a budding superstar). This Chicago team is a collection of role players who manage to get the most out of their talents. They won't win anything until they get a go to guy (and a secondary guy).
The truth is obvious: Chicago just can't hang with Detroit.
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