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Suns looking at the broom; Heat-Pistons Sunday
By David Zizmor May 26, 2005 |
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The San Antonio Spurs are no strangers to the playoffs. They've been there plenty of times before and if it wasn't for Derek Fisher, whose miracle shot in 0.4 seconds last year, the Spurs very well may have made it to the finals rather than the Lakers. Phoenix is the rookie team in the playoffs. The Suns didn't make the playoffs last year, and now here they are with the best record in the league, looking to make it to the finals for the first time in 12 years, since they played against the Chicago Bulls back when Charles Barkley was a Sun. Miami-Detroit: The big question going into this series was will Shaq play? He played the first two games and was pretty effective. Now we need to see how Shaq is going to hold up over the course of an entire series. Its one thing to have him sit out against a team like the Washington Wizards, as Miami clearly had an advantage. When you're talking about the Detroit Pistons, that's a whole other story. The Pistons are the defending champs and proved that in the opening game of the series on Monday with a nine-point win in Miami. The Pistons play spectacular defense and they have a good enough offense that you can't take them lightly. They're not in the Phoenix Suns' area of expertise, but Detroit is good as they come as an overall basketball team. Despite that, the Miami Heat's victory on Wednesday night evened up the series at 1-1 as they beat Detroit 92-86 in Game 2. I think Detroit has a bit of advantage because as good as Shaq is, he's not 100 percent and Detroit knows how to beat Shaq because they did it last year in the playoffs. I think Detroit is as good as any team in the playoffs and I wouldn't be shocked to see Detroit take this series, but I think it'll go six or seven games before it's done. David Zizmor will cover the NBA Playoffs and will be updating each week. Dave co-hosts Sportstalk on 1430 KVVN San Jose and 1110 KLIB Sacramento. |
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