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>Detroit has missed the playoffs once in the past decade and they have reached the conference finals for what is now the sixth straight season. They have recent postseason success, they have the experience, and they play better basketball in the second season of the year, not to mention they have won on the road.As for the Celtics, well, their postseason past hasn’t been relevant in 21 years, their players’ playoff experience isn’t exactly overwhelming, and the organization hasn’t won a road playoff game since May 5, 2005 in Game 6 of the conference quarterfinals at Indiana. That was also the game, which led up to Boston’s choke job at home.
A 97-70 loss in Game 7 let the Pacers eliminate them from the first round for the second straight year.
I’m not saying that the Pistons are going to take down the whole thing and once again sit on top of the basketball world because I believe Kobe and his word of the Lakers playing basketball into June, which would bring the title back to L.A.
It isn’t guaranteed yet that the Pistons will be playing the first two games of the Eastern Conference finals with 16 championship banners hanging over their heads at the TD Banknorth Garden. (They might be hosting the Cavs at the Palace next week.)
And the Celtics might not get by LeBron and his supporting cast this weekend, but if and when they do, the Pistons will be there waiting to rain on their parade. The same parade the city of Boston has been planning since November.
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