Before You Jump Off a Cliff, Pistons Fans, Remember This Has Happened Before

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Before You Jump Off a Cliff, Pistons Fans, Remember This Has Happened Before
Brian Brian posted 4/21/2008 from www.emptythebench.com [flag]
Before I tell you why Sunday night’s embarassing loss to the Philadelphia 76ers is no big deal, let’s get the formalities out of the way: that was sickening. Inexcusable. A terrible way to open a postseason this Pistons team has been pointing to all season long, and a bad omen for the ensuing rounds. But this happened before, losing homecourt advantage. The year, 2004---when they won it all. [link]

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