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Detroit Pistons - Tayshaun Prince blocks the Magic way
Published 5/14/2008 by james at NBA Obsessed - NBA Basketball News
... up by 3 and Tayshaun was going for the block. It looked like Hedo was going to score the basket and get the foul. That would give him a chance to tie the game. So Prince rose inch for inch with Turkoglu, as if taped to his body, and he pinned the would-be jam against the backboard and off the rim. It caromed away, the game was safe, and moments later, the Pistons were headed to a familiar place, the Eastern Conference finals, for the sixth straight year. source Defense. Defense by the Pistons won the game. At ...

First Cup: Wednesday
Published 5/14/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press: "They did it the old-fashioned way. They stole it. They swiped it. They poked it, scooped it, slapped it, wrestled it away. Twelve times they stole the ball Tuesday night. Nine other times, Orlando threw it away under pressure. Twenty-one turnovers? Thirty-four points off turnovers? 'That's what we knew we were gonna win the game on,' Rip Hamilton said after the Game 5 clincher. 'Defense.'" ...