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The Spurs May Be In Trouble

This year’s NBA finals have featured the San Antonio Spurs versus the Detroit Pistons. I have been rooting for the Spurs (being from Texas), and after game five, they led the best of seven series three games to two. Game six was this evening, and Detroit won, forcing a game seven.

Based on the portions of the game tonight that I was able to either listen to on the radio or watch on television, I’m thinking the Spurs are in trouble. Tony Parker and Manu Ginobli are turning the ball over quite a bit (and in critical situations), and Detroit has been clutch with some of its shooting. Rasheed Wallace is getting to the basket for put-backs and rebounds pretty easily, and Richard Hamilton is hitting his mid-range jump shot consistently.

The Spurs won the first two games convincingly, and won game five on a last second three point shot by Robert Horry. The Pistons won games three and four convincingly and put the Spurs away tonight as the game wound down. It seems to me that the Pistons have figured the Spurs out, and with reliable hands like Chauncey Billups and Richard Hamilton becoming more and more dependable as each game closes, and with Tony Parker and Manu Ginobli driving hard to the hoop and giving the ball away, I’m feeling like game seven will go to the Pistons. I’m rooting for it not to go down like that, but the Spurs have not given me much to be confident about over the last four games.