Chauncey: "There's Nobody On That Team Who Is Better Than Ours" <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Chauncey Billups didn't sound like a man who wouldn't be back with the Detroit Pistons following their elimination in the playoffs. "I believe [we're better], I really do," Billups said after a conference finals series in which the Pistons probably didn't deserve to win one game. "There's nobody on that team who is better than ours. And maybe I'm crazy, maybe I've got too much confidence in these guys, but I believe in us. I believe we're the better team. "Did we back it up? No, we didn't. But I still think we're better." </div> Link
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"Did we back it up? No, we didn't. But I still think we're better."</div> I still think we are the better team too, I think our guys just underestimated the Cavs. We played lazy basketball, there is no way LeBron should've dropped 48 on us, and he would'nt have if we actually had of played some D.
Pistons are always confident. They don't seem to care because they're the Pistons and they know how to come back, then they get owned 4 games straight and Chauncey still says this..
I think the Detroit team is very confident and thats why they play good and always looking to win. I say that the last two games were close and The Cav's are a more younger team and fast and thats the reason Cav's won.
<div class="quote_poster">lakersfan171 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I say that the last two games were close and The Cav's are a more younger team and fast and thats the reason Cav's won.</div> Thats not why they won, they won because we didnt play with enough effort. If you had of watched the game LeBron dropped 48 on us, you would've seen how we just allowed him to attack the basket at will, we didnt contest shots, we didnt make it tough for him to score, we gave him open paths down the lane. You just cant afford to do that against the likes of LeBron James. I would've been alot less dissapointed in losing this series if our guys had of contested shots, and played some proper defense. The only guys out there who were playing solid D were Lindsey Hunter and Antonio McDyess.
Chauncey Billups shouldn't be talking that brand of trash right now. This is the second straight year they've underperformed. Their confidence and knowledge of their own abilities seems to have mutated into a lazy nonchalance, and the concept of, "aw, we're still better, we'll get ya next time" reeks of that attitude. Until the Pistons realize that they've deserved to lose the way they did the last two seasons, and realize they have to get BETTER, Cleveland, Chicago, and possibly Miami and Orlando will be trampling them before long.
Sounds like they got a case of Shaqitis. LOL. Lame comments coming from Billups. The Cavs battled you tough last year, and this year they learned how to close the Pistons out. The Pistons threw in the towel with 8 minutes left in the game, eventhough they still had a chance to make a comeback. I was really surprised at the easy baskets Detroit was giving up in Game 5. Allowing LeBron to come down the lane and flush it, not once, but twice. I was expecting a hard foul, and force LeBron to earn it at the line.
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Sounds like they got a case of Shaqitis. LOL. Lame comments coming from Billups. The Cavs battled you tough last year, and this year they learned how to close the Pistons out. The Pistons threw in the towel with 8 minutes left in the game, eventhough they still had a chance to make a comeback. I was really surprised at the easy baskets Detroit was giving up in Game 5. Allowing LeBron to come down the lane and flush it, not once, but twice. I was expecting a hard foul, and force LeBron to earn it at the line.</div> Thats what hurts so bad. Just think if LeBron wouldn't of made that layup at the end of regulation. People would be talking about how great we are instead of bashing us. It sucks thats the way it ended, but if we were truely better then them then it shouldn't of been problem winning the final two games.
Typical Piston cockiness. God, no offence to the fans but I really dislike this team's demeanor. They feel like the whole world is out to get them at all times.
<div class="quote_poster">Detroit Madness Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Thats what hurts so bad. Just think if LeBron wouldn't of made that layup at the end of regulation. People would be talking about how great we are instead of bashing us. It sucks thats the way it ended, but if we were truely better then them then it shouldn't of been problem winning the final two games.</div>Yea, it would have been a huge difference if Lebron missed the layup. Detroit would be getting all the praise, and Lebron and Cleveland would be failures. The edge between a lot of praise and a lot of criticism is small, a team can put in pretty much the exact same effort in, and if they win by 1 point, they are great, if they lose by 1 point they are failures. Detroit was still one of the best teams in the playoffs.<div class="quote_poster">Karma Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Typical Piston cockiness. God, no offence to the fans but I really dislike this team's demeanor. They feel like the whole world is out to get them at all times.</div>Yea, that can be annoying, but obviously not all the players are like that.
Yeah, I for one think everyones making way too big of deal out of this. We lost, in the East Finals, not exactly a total failure. And as others have said, if Lebron doesn't make that Layup at the end of Game 5, we're talking about how Lebron can't get it done, can't hit shots in the 4th, ect. Game 5 swung the series totally and the fact that it came down to one basket that Lebron just happened to make doesn't really mean he deserves all this credit.
