Team- Player-Coach-------Team- Cavaliers game seven against the Pistons was a huge dissapointment. Cavaliers were expected to get blown out by the Pistons and took a 3-2 lead, however Pistons tied up the scor ein games and killed them in the last game. Cavaliers didn't come out and play in the second half, LeBron wasn't driving, and eventaully I stopped seeing the hustle in him. Cavs defensively were doing a terrible job and it was a terrible way to end the series.Player- Rasheed Wallace did a terrible job this playoff, Rasheed is one of the Pistons team leaders however he seemed to be having troubles with Flip Saunders and not being into the tune that hte Pistons needed him to be.Coach- Flip Saunders during the Heat series, he led his team to the best record in the league during the season, what happened in the playoffs? Pistons started getting out of hand and playing weak during certain games, not coming out with 100% every night and now they have been blaming their coach which is something you don't want in a team.
Team-Lakers Game 7. You wanna talk about disappointment? How about going into your first playoff series alone (sans Shaq) huge underdogs, amazingly taking a 3-1 lead, losing Game 6 on a offensive rebound + made 3, and losing Game 7 on the road by 30. Player-Smush Parker. This guy must've had a nervous breakdown. Halfway through the series something inside him just broke, and he couldn't score. Because he has such bad defense, he had nothing to fall back on, and going up against the MVP didn't help things either.Coach-Flip Saunders. The two time defending Eastern Conference Champion had to come back from a 3-2 deficit just to beat Cleveland for god's sake. Those great defensive shutdowns we've seen from past Detroit teams in the playoffs *cough Larry Brown *cough Rick Carlisle* disappeared this year. I know it's not all his fault but you have to lay some of the blame on the new coach.
Team- Memphis Grizzlies: Duh...swept again!Coach- Flip Saunders: He led the team to a great regular season and the expectations were high for another championship in Detroit. Then they just didn't play up to their abilities. In the first round they lost to the Bucks by 20 in a game. In the 2nd round, were they were supposed to win easily they were almost beaten and it took them 7 games to win. And then they really just got outplayed by Miami. I place the blame on Flip. He's doing to same thing he did with the T-Wolves.Player-Eddie House: He was great in the regular season and won't us like 6 games in the 4th quarter because of his great shooting, but he just dissapeared in the playoffs and was taken out of the rotation for half of the games.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lakaboy42 @ Jun 6 2006, 03:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Team-Lakers Game 7. You wanna talk about disappointment? How about going into your first playoff series alone (sans Shaq) huge underdogs, amazingly taking a 3-1 lead, losing Game 6 on a offensive rebound + made 3, and losing Game 7 on the road by 30. Player-Smush Parker. This guy must've had a nervous breakdown. Halfway through the series something inside him just broke, and he couldn't score. Because he has such bad defense, he had nothing to fall back on, and going up against the MVP didn't help things either.Coach-Flip Saunders. The two time defending Eastern Conference Champion had to come back from a 3-2 deficit just to beat Cleveland for god's sake. Those great defensive shutdowns we've seen from past Detroit teams in the playoffs *cough Larry Brown *cough Rick Carlisle* disappeared this year. I know it's not all his fault but you have to lay some of the blame on the new coach.</div>id like to forget about it
