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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2349160" data-attributes="member: 2205">The Sigil, you're giving Edena_of_Neith a run for his money on lengthy posts.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I do disagree with you on one point -- that the refs are letting fouls slip because they don't understand the rules.  Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think they understand they perfectly well, but they also understand what the audience in general wants to see, and a lot of foul-calling is not it.Anyway, I agree -- I don't know what the deal with Hamilton was at the end of game 5 -- that was a honeheaded play, and it certainly cost Detroit the chance to pull a win out of the game.And now my prediction has come true -- we move into game 7 on Thursday.  Because I didn't make a prediction about who would win, I should probably shut my mouth and count myself lucky to have been right so far, but I'm gonna go ahead and pick Detroit to win on Thursday.  I think for the last four games they've played better than San Antonio, and SA was lucky to pull out a win on game 5.  You can't count on luck to strike again right when you need it, and I think game 6 was the proof of that.  Although a closer game (until the end) than the earlier blow-outs, I still think Detroit pretty much had the edge the entire game.As Dan Wetzel -- sports writer for Yahoo! said, "Here is the Detroit Pistons' record over the last three seasons when facing playoff elimination: 8-1. Here is their record in the last 10 games in which they could eliminate a playoff opponent: 10-0.  That's stone cold savage."</blockquote>

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