Halftime inspiration: Joe, Flip or McDyess?

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Chris Webber on the Pistons
Published 4/28/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
The Starting Five transcribed a half-time interview that I sped through courtesy of Tivo. This is all Chris Webber, talking about his former team: No disrespect to Flip (Saunders), but it doesn't matter what Flip says, because they take on the personality of Joe Dumars. Rip (Hamilton), Chauncey (Billups), Tayshaun Prince, Rasheed (Wallace) and (Antonio) McDyess are very mad right now, they probably aren't even talking and they are probably just saying, 'ok we're going to go win this game. (The Pistons) are really nonchalant and that's why I felt we lost last year (in the Eastern Conference Finals). It sounds crazy, but they could care less. That ...

Notes From Courtside: Pistons Take Charge
Published 4/30/2008 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
... Flip Saunders before the game, on what he thought about Chris Webber's comments from Game 4: "All I know is one thing. I talked at halftime, no one else really talked and I like the way our players responded. I think it's enough said." ...