<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It's not what happened to the Bulls, but what to do about it. After losing 81-74 to the Detroit Pistons on Thursday to fall behind 3-0 in their Eastern Conference semifinal, the Bulls at least now have a better idea where they stand. Shaq's no longer a problem. But they have to figure out how to attack an aggressive zone defense, which the Pistons again baffled them with in coming back from a 19-point deficit, and how to get someone to score in the post when a team baffles their fluid perimeter game the way the Pistons did. "We were able to get into our matchup zone and not give them too many drive-and-kicks and got them under control better," Chauncey Billups said after scoring 21 points, 10 in a third quarter fatal to the Bulls. "We had too many gaps open in the first half, and they attacked it, which they do. We got into the zone and were able to control them more." Technically, the Bulls again were baffled by what Pistons coach Flip Saunders calls their HPTFZ, the hyperbolic, paraboloid, transitional floating zone defense. "I'd say the second half we played maybe four, five possessions of man," Saunders said after the Pistons outscored the Bulls 53-30 in the second half. "We were almost zone-exclusive. We locked down in the zone and were able to take away a lot of penetration, their guys coming off screens. We were making their guards work. Chauncey made big shots to send us over the top.</div> Source: Chicago Tribune
I am not giving up on this series yet, but regardless of the result, I am proud of the season we have had.
