After November, the Warriors' good days are over. Although their schedule is still the same, the quality of their opponents is different. In addition, starting this month, their away journey will be started, and there are many back-to-back games, such as the Spurs and Pistons after this time.

The plane took off from San Antonio and flew directly to Detroit International Airport, and in Motor City, they will face the former Eastern overlord for the first time.

Since entering the 21st century, the Pistons have become a strong Eastern Conference team. The reason for all this comes from a deal: the Pistons will trade Grant Hill, perhaps the most charming star in the team's history, to the Magic, and then obtain Ben Wallace, the coolie inside.

It was precisely Ben Wallace, the coolie inside, that completely made the Pistons famous. With this tough guy in the inside, Auburn Mountain Palace became the most difficult stadium for the other twenty-nine teams in the league. Big Ben, together with Bellups, Hamilton, Prince and Rashid Wallace, formed the five Tiger players to ensure that the Pistons are always a strong contender for the top teams in the league.

Unfortunately, in 2006, Ben Wallace had a conflict with Pistons' new coach Sanders and decided to leave the team that made him famous and went to the Chicago Bulls. No one expected that this was a loss-making start. The Pistons uniform group underestimated the role of Big Ben on the team, and Big Ben also overestimated his combat ability to escape from the Pistons system.

Losing Big Ben, the Pistons' combat effectiveness was greatly reduced last season. Although they signed Nazel Mohammed to fill the gap left by Ben Wallace in the interior, after the start of the season, they lost five of the first eight games, setting a record for the worst start in nearly a decade.

Although Billups and others won eight games in the second half of November, around the New Year, when the Pistons were in trouble again to fight for the 30 teams in the playoffs, Mohammed was unable to meet the team's expectations.

The Pistons' uniform group moved quickly. They signed former ace forward Chris Webber on January 17 this year, who had just been cut by the Philadelphia 76ers. This deal was regarded as one of the best operations in the league last season. Webber's signing not only helped him regain his youth, but also improved the Pistons' performance.

Perhaps he was motivated again because of his hometown team. Weber, who was born at the University of Michigan, made up for the Pistons' urgently needed rebounding ability and contributed 6.7 per game. In this way, the Pistons ended strongly, achieving 28 wins and 11 losses in the last 39 games, and achieving the best record of 53 wins and 29 losses in the Eastern Conference.

In the playoffs, the Pistons continued to be popular, winning four consecutive games to sweep the Orlando Magic. The young Warcraft was beaten to tears. Facing Ben Wallace and the Chicago Bulls in the second round, the Pistons were ruthless. In order to revenge Big Ben's defection, Sanders directed the team to win three consecutive games to take a 3-0 lead, trying to sweep his opponents to humiliate Big Ben again.

However, their attempt to sweep the opponent in the second round in a row failed, and the Bulls easily won the fourth game 102-87. Then the Bulls relied on Ben Gordon's 28 points to burn the Pistons on the outside and won the fifth game 108-92. In the sixth game, the Pistons' defense responded, winning 95-85 in Chicago.

Judging from the record, the Pistons seem to be the most invincible team in the Eastern Conference, but when the Eastern Conference finals begin and when the truly cruel knockout starts, the Pistons can't stand it.

In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pistons started with a sharp start, winning two consecutive games with two identical scores of 79-76 at home. However, after Cleveland, LeBron James began to take over the game, losing Ben Wallace, and the Pistons lost the only person who could control the Little Emperor. Under the leadership of the Little Emperor, the Cavaliers won two consecutive games to tie the score 2-2. In the fifth game, the Pistons and the Cavaliers always played side by side, playing two overtimes in a row, and LeBron became the star of the game. He won the team's last 25 points and led the Cavaliers to defeat the Pistons 109-107. In the sixth game, James became stronger, and the Cavaliers won 98-82, ending the hope of the Pistons meeting with the San Antonio Spurs in the finals and then revenge.

The Pistons are still a hot and powerful team now, but no one thinks they are a championship team anymore, even if their performance is still eye-catching this season.

This season has special significance for the Pistons because it is their 60th anniversary celebration. The Pistons founded the team in 1941, but the NBA, which joined in 1948, is about to enter 2008. This season is the Pistons' team celebration.

So far, the Pistons have a brilliant record, only behind the most popular Celtics this season in the rankings of 15 Eastern Conference teams, with a record of 11 wins and 4 losses.

The outside world is not optimistic about the Warriors in this game. It’s not that the latter is not strong enough, but because of the event arrangement, the Warriors have been playing back-to-back with two top teams in the league. This intensity is too great. It is impossible to win two games in a row. Even the Celtics, the recognized strongest team in the league, cannot do it. They must give up one game and save one game.

Judging from the wonderful match between the Warriors and the Spurs, they tried their best in the last game, so the problem was simple. It was obvious that Old Nelson was preparing to give up the game with the Pistons and concentrate on dealing with the Spurs, but the Warriors lost a pity.

Originally, Chamberlain thought he was annoying enough in San Antonio, but when the Pistons walked into Auburn Mountain Palace, he realized how gentle the Spurs fans were to him in the last game. When Stephen Jackson entered the court, he heard uniform booing sounds from the audience, and various banners were flying all over the sky, either obscurely or directly greeting the whole body of the Martial Saint and the family women.

The reason for all this is clear, of course, because of the Auburn Palace Fight in the past few years that shocked the world basketball world. Jackson was the protagonist of it. It was also because of that battle that became famous at home and abroad. He won the extraordinary nickname of Martial Saint in the Chinese basketball world.

Chamberlain thought time would dilute all hatred, but after watching Pistons fans today, he realized that hatred and friendship can last forever. Similarly, Jackson's disgust for this team is no less than the fans' disgust for him. Before entering the court, he grabbed Chamberlain and said gritted his teeth: "Z, for the sake of brothers, we must do our best in today's game, we must deal with the damn Detroit hooligans, and we must kill them!"

The fans had already screamed outside, and the sound penetrated the player passage to surround the Warriors players. Chamberlain frowned and asked loudly: "What did you say? I can't hear it clearly!"

Jackson yelled with his fist, "I said that we must do our best in today's game, we must deal with the damn Detroit hooligans, and we must kill them!"

"What are you talking about? I can't hear it clearly, louder!" Chamberlain yelled.

Jackson stared at the eyes like a mad cow and shouted, "I said when will you return the 10,000 dollars I lent to you?"

Chamberlain immediately became furious: "Shit, when did I borrow money from you?"

Barnes, Harrington and others burst into laughter, and Jackson came up to pinch Chamberlain's neck, and the team's originally tense and depressing atmosphere became much more relaxed.

Perhaps because of Jackson, the Pistons players didn't even watch it after entering the court. According to the normal process, the home team stars should come to greet the away team stars. Although they are opponents on the court, many people are still friends off the court.

But now it seems that Warriors and Pistons players are not only opponents on the court, but also enemies off the court. In addition to the Pistons, the Warriors and Jazz are the same.

The main lineup sent by the Pistons are: center Antonio McDyce, power forward Rashid Wallace, small forward Prince, organizational defender Billups, and shooting guard Hamilton.

The Warriors' lineup has changed a lot compared to before: center Chamberlain, power forward Harrington, small forward Barnes, organizational defender Azubuke, and shooting guard Jackson.

Seeing that Old Nelson sent this lineup, Chamberlain grinned. What the hell is the old man doing? Isn’t this obviously going to fight with the Pistons? Look at these five people on the court, except for him, the four most thorny Warriors were on the court, so it would be strange if they couldn’t fight with the Pistons.

Old Nelson was like this, and arranged some tactics to ask Chamberlainto to enter the inside linebacker to pass the ball to Chamberlain, and then he sorted out his suit and sat down to watch the ball.

Now old Nelson can also learn from Zen Master Phil Jackson, saying that it is simple to have a superstar commander of the game.

Chamberlain and McDace jumped the ball, used their excellent bounce speed and jump to grab the lead, and gave the racket to Azubuk.

Facing Billups' defense, Azubuk did not use any tricks and dribbled the ball to the frontcourt in a normal manner and passed it to Jackson.

After Jackson took the ball, he did not attack, but looked at Hamilton with a fierce look. The masked man was unmoved and replied to the Martial Saint expressionlessly, focusing on going up to defend.

Jackson's choice for this is always to turn around and stick out his butt and hit him on his back.

Hamilton hurriedly lowered his center of gravity, but a black shadow came. Chamberlain rushed out of the penalty area and raised the high position to block the Maskman. Seeing that he had deceived his opponent, Jackson turned around and took a step, and simply slapped the ball and rushed to the inside.

Prince let Barnes go to defend Jackson. When the latter saw him coming up, his shoulders shook vigorously. The ball in his left hand jumped on the floor and fell to his right hand, and he still tried his best to fight to the inside. McDace's face was gloomy and he hurriedly fucked from the side. Jackson did not hesitate and passed the ball to Chamberlain who entered the penalty area from the middle.

Prince and McDest were anxious and let go of Jackson and intercepted Chamberlain. After getting the ball, the latter flew into a layup. After attracting Prince and McDest, they threw the ball behind them without even looking.

Jackson received the open position and rushed to the basket with two big steps, taking off and dunking!
Chapter completed!