Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Blech.
Well, the Pistons beat themselves again last night. I don't want to hear a word about Wade, Shaq, blah, blah, blah. The simple fact of the matter is that the Pistons can't put any points on the board right now. The problem is one of offense, and this was true even in a game in which the Pistons had only 6 turnovers and outplayed Miami on the offensive glass. Yes, they allowed too many points (and easy ones) to secondary players on the Heat, but with a (much) more solid offensive performance, they could still take games such as that. Look at it this way: in any of their last 8 games, by scoring 92 points or more, they win them all--every single one, including all three losses to Cleveland and last night's loss to Miami. They've managed to win 4 games out of those eight, 2 on nights when they've put up points in the mid-90s and up, and 2 without doing it. They're holding teams to fairly low scoring (in spite of Miami's ridiculously high field-goal percentage--75% in the first quarter?!?), but aren't doing much scoring themselves. They haven't, I don't think, broken 86 points since Game 2 of the Cleveland series--and this from a team that averaged somewhere around 97 points per game during the regular season. Come on, boys--it's time to keep up defensive pressure and click that offense into high gear.
