When The Pistons Were AWESOME 😤 | 2004 Finals COMPLETE Highlights

When The Pistons Were AWESOME 😤 | 2004 Finals COMPLETE Highlights

Joe Crawford will send it Skyward and at 10 minutes past six in Los Angeles the NBA Finals get underway but chck was whistled by Bernie frier from the side prematurely going up for the tip this is chony Phillips working outside it’ll be a key man in the series and this is

Wallace hitting on his first shot rashed Wallace who was the bad boy in Portland he was a walking technical foul but he’s been a model of civility since going to Motown pyton got it then lost it but Bryant gets it back Bryant losing it Rasheed comes up with

It we hearing from Stuart Scott shortly on the other sideline Bryant missing the fallway and Hamilton with a rebound Phillips back to Hamilton and Prince gets free taan Prince coming home grew up in Compton went to domingus high school phips drains it see if there’s an X

Factor in this series I think it’s chony bips oh thank you the Lakers had 100 total games NBA Finals experience coming in the Pistons had six but if you think Detroit FS like the local wck team think again Larry Brown told me that he keeps reminding rip and Corless hey you guys

Have played in an NCAA title game that’s one and done it doesn’t get any bigger than that Lindy Hunter said you don’t know the guys on this team taan isn’t bothered Chanty isn’t phased and rip don’t care about nothing as long as he’s putting the ball in the basket I asked

Your pamilton about the difference in experience and he looked me straight in the eye and he said if we play our game I love our chances I love them out 108 with all aid for O’Neal as bips hits here and Detroit is up by four here’s Campbell a former Laker beautiful feed

To Hamilton that’s a staple of Larry Brown coming out of timeouts he loves the lobs and the back door after Phil Jackson’s career as a pro player he was not planning on coaching I asked him what he might have done if he hadn’t gone into coaching he said when I got

Out of the NBA there was a test for retired players to tell you what you were suited to do he said my three answers outdoor Expedition guide Minister and psychologist or house husband fortunately I found something else but next year some of those may be available again if he doesn’t come back here’s

Bips driving to the basket to retake the lead for Detroit Prince drives and can’t get it to drop now Fischer underneath and it’s a jump ball clean block see now they’ve had a block shot the Lakers have had five turnovers most likely and I’m just a betting a guessing

Man here Ellen Campbell’s going to win this tap over Derek Fischer that is exactly like a turnover for the Lakers and the last time before that they shot the ball with 1 second left on a shot clock so again if you’re Detroit you like the pace of this game Hamilton was

Guarded by rush now Campbell is free and just before the 24 went off he puts it in and Detroit is up by five Hunter pressured by fiser Shaquille comes away from the basket Williamson gets the rebound puts it back in and the Pistons have the lead again 27-25

Phillips and tville got the rebound and also I think got poked in the eye or hit in the face as that one drops and three-point Detroit lead here’s Bryant Kobe comes up short again and that was t on Francis length that bothered Kobe Bryant on that shot Campbell to

Prince is there a bigger preing on the home team winning both games in this format as opposed to the other format no you know I think the three games is it hurts more because I think in a finals it’s very difficult you have two good basketball teams it’s very difficult to

Beat either one one of these teams three times in a row so in essence the team with the three is giving away one of those games they’re going to lose one of those games it’s almost guaranteed Ben Wallace just tied the game O’Neal trying to get it underneath to George and

Couldn’t get it through Campbell ticking down to a minute Williamson that’s one of the few guys that Carl malan actually get out of the way for him stolen by Detroit here’s bips he goes all the way and then drops it off and the foul is committed here

Williamson going to the hoop and you look at how the Lakers scored you know 23 of their 41 points were either Second Chance points or off the Pistons turnover so they haven’t scored much at all in half court offense and that’s what rased Wallace can do for you so he

Starts the second half and drains a three Malone who still has not scored neither has Payton and Gary turns it over phips cute little move underneath and Detroit is up by four second game in the series is Tuesday night here then to Michigan for game three Kobe was long on that one Wallace gets the rebound out in front to Hamilton guarded by George and drops it in [Applause]

Softly Prince outside to a wide open phips who hits it for three you see there where bips caught it out and took his time and took the shot you know we we talk about how dominant the Lakers are and you bring that up without that shot you probably aren’t looking at the

Lakers here without the great block of taan Prince you’re probably not looking at the Pistons here two great blocks by taan Prince one on Reggie Miller and the other one on Al Harrington and game six van Wallace drops one that’s gravy the thing about Payton as Prince drops one in

Prince here’s Wallace again from outside Big Ben not noted for offense and of course with two on the timer now that one goes in with two on the timer it was Prince from the corner and that’s knocked away and stolen by bips and he’ll reset bips all the way to the rim see

Bips likes this matchup and you can see it would you agree with that at this point that the time off might have affected either of these teams well I think it definitely will affect the Lakers more in Detroit you know the extra day of playing for Detroit the

Later game and the way that series was fought I think Detroit’s in better Rhythm coming into this game than the Lakers are Elden Campbell as the 24 wound down makes it a six-point game a minute to play fiser contested by Hunter now Shaq has to come all the way out and

All the way out is a great Point look where the Lakers are starting their offense and this is what’s been happening all evening long and this is why they’re out of seat it’s not because it’s bad offense it’s because it’s a Detroit Pistons defense is stretching

Them out of the places they want to be and O’Neal got back underneath and couldn’t handle Rush’s pass medeno saves it about a an 8sec differential and Hamilton went down and is just now getting up in back for it as Colby has that one blocked and when Hamilton went

Down it means that as he stayed down there he’s able to score and he goes down hard again and is so frustrated he’s hurt he winds up kicking the ball but no infraction yeah he was trying to kick the ball to give him some time to

Get off the floor guys the last time out Larry Brown was going through the usual coaching ex’s nose things that you wouldn’t understand unless you had a dictionary but at the very end he got really emotional he said guys we got to win the next 5 minutes we got to win

That and put it on them after that we play as a group it doesn’t matter who gets the layup or get the shot win the next 5 minutes play as a group take this thing home guys here’s medo passing of a shot well he knows he can come in and

Steal one and when you’re the visioning team that’s what you want to do well he did it with the Philadelphia 76ers so Larry Brown has history and tried to get it up and had that contested as the shot clock great defense and I’m going tell you what you sense right now is the

Offense isn’t getting better for either team and it’s because of both teams are playing pretty good defense but the Detroit Piston defense is starting to crank it up a little bit here Bryant finds a wide openen Fisher who’s short again 2 seconds on the shot clock

When that shot was going up and that really works in into Detroit’s hands as we said Detroit trying to cut down on the Laker possessions from the corner that doesn’t drop from Prince but that is good to make it 6858 you can sense the Pistons getting more confident as this game goes on

Hunter for three 13 points and Jackson says that’s enough for right now well you can sense it you can feel the Detroit Pistons starting to turn the energy up here Williamson to Hamilton the free enough well I tell you Kobe Bryant took his eyes off Rip Hamilton for a half a

Second and when he turned back around rip was no longer there that’s all he needed the Detroit Pistons defense they’re not allowing them to move the ball they’re contesting every pass and now you see a charging foul so that’s why it’s so difficult to move on this

Basketball team you know some teams make offensive runs the Detroit Pistons make defensive runs and then a big three by Prince Bryant one-on-one with Prince shovels it underneath and O’Neal can’t handle it but it’s on the end line and now timeout is called still Detroit’s ball Larry takes a 20 Hamilton

Feeding Wallace free up over Malone 7970 2 and A2 to go here’s bips big one see bips can get that shot all night 22 for bips the Pistons have four guys in double figures the Lakers have been a two-man scoring machine tonight nobody else has more than five that’s George and the Lakers

Turn it over with under two out of play Wallace wow and when your defensive dude puts in a two here he to you know it’s you’re not here’s Rush again Fisher underneath even that was contested he missed that shot because he thought that Ben Wallace was going to jump this is a

Terrific win if somebody told you Neil would get 34 Bryant would get 25 Rasheed Wallace with a foul trouble and not play very much in the first half you’d be in Los Angeles you’d be facing the vaed Lakers and you’d win by about a dozen what were those odds well I like what

Larry Brown decided to do Kobe Bryant and Shaq you score we’re going to defend you but you can score we’re not going to help but we’re going to shut every everybody else down and that’s exactly what the Detroit Pistons did and now we’re no longer talking about bad offense we’re talking about great

Detroit Piston defense it’ll be interesting early to see the Pistons not the Lakers how the Pistons come out early you know the Lakers are going to be ready the key is will the Pistons be happy with one win or will they try to go for two well they’re happy right now they’re

Looking to become ecstatic here we go O’Neal and Ben Wallace and again for the second game in a row a premature jump this time again it is Shaquille O’Neal as was the case the other night so that’s happened in both games Bryan with a lot of traffic as he goes through the lane

And an offensive foul now you have Bryant on Billups and we talked about that a little bit in the pregame show but Wallace is free and Ben goes to the hoop for the jam and Detroit lead Kobe whips it in the corner to Payton three-pointer doesn’t go and look at

That rebound by Ben wall is a play like that and you understand why he is mostly about rebounding mostly about defense because he has Velcro on his hands and when it touches it you never see it pop out Malone to the hoop rejected by Rasheed Wallace and the Lakers with a

Bench that pretty much has put them into the finals thank you Derek Fischer thank you Kareem rush says Phil Jackson as Prince puts it in to make it a six to5 Laker lead George gets free from 16 Malone with the back tapack but nobody’s there except Rasheed Wallace and it goes

Into Ben Wallace and Detroit takes the lead so Larry Brown calls the timeout trailing by three and the next thing you know Detroit’s up by one fourth Laker turnover all the way goes Hamilton Detroit on top again Payton to Bryant now Gary posting and losing the

Ball now the Lakers have turned the ball over five times in less than 7 minutes yeah and that was that’s a concern turn again Phillips goes all the way and off the glass kisses it in so the lead going back and forth 1110 Detroit under four

To go in the perii not a good Trend right now if you’re a Lakers fan this game so far reminds me a lot of game one with the exception I think the Lakers are playing with better energy defensively but as I told you earlier the pistols are still getting the same

Shots and Bryant had nobody to hand it off to him now he can’t pick it up again that was like the park huh nobody’s there nobody’s home now Prince from outside to drain it for three taan Prince a four-point Detroit lead with Wallace on the bench Malone meanwhile

Carl Malone is he was reaching for his right knee he’s hobbling underneath the basket and here’s Williamson putting it up and in you know at that point I’m looking at Malone it’s like your brain wants to shake it off no it’s like you don’t even want to give into the fact

That you might be hurt to the extent you can’t play in the steel here and here’s bips you know a easy bucket for the Pistons another turnover for the Lakers shot clock at six Hunter drives throws up a wild one that goes in yeah tough shot O’Neal has it knocked away Campbell

Got his hand on it the ball is out of bounds and Detroit will inbound Campbell got it yeah Campbell can make that shot and they’re running the pick and row in order for him to get that shot he’s showing a lot of trust though your team was struggling before he came

In and you go to a rookie in Luke Walen who has answered and Hamilton drops one Campbell underneath what a pass Beauty to Hamilton and what a cut up by seven and Hamilton lost it but it’s picked up only six on the shot clock right now Hamilton with three and then a little

Runner in the lane doesn’t go but they’ll get a fresh 24 and Hamilton will pop from the corner and get it for three big play a second shot that’s just like a turnover Prince now from the outside oh that would have been huge BR I tell

You and now Walton to Malone and Malone missed it gets a second chance and the the only good news about Malone going down hard and getting up as I called it gingerly as he was still down court and available in case the ball came down there that quickly which it did and

Wallace to Rasheed Wallace who didn’t play at all in the second quarter so again as was the case the other night two early fouls came out and then comes out and scores Payton quick hands of Big Ben to swipe it Away Wallace with a turnaround and so Rasheed who was on the bench most of the first half comes out two for two to begin the third period what a pass by Malone to a cutting Devin George inside you know basically they’ve made Malone now the passer uh they know he’s

Struggling moving so what they’re doing is giving them the ball and moving around him on the offensive end of the defensive end of course he does all of the the Dirty Work he had Tim Duncan he had Kevin Garnett and right now he has Rasheed Wallace who beats him again so Wallace

With a half dozen now in the period I think it’s a good move by Larry Brown I’m watching the in play right now with Rip Hamilton and Kobe Bryant and we all knew that these two guys grew up together you’re watching a play right now uh they’re going after each other

High School rivals in Pennsylvania what a move by to it in that is a absolutely great move and you can see Shaq late there he was quite emotional when he said it’s important to him to get a championship Malone but he said the most important Legacy I want to leave with my

Team is that they all know that I am a caring person that cared for every single guy on the bench from 1 to 12 you know you’re looking at this game and it looks like the Lakers are dominating the game it’s a six-point game right now

Sixo game Detroit not making it easy and open is Hamilton and now it is a three-point game that play was CA it’s amazing the little things in our game that play was called by Rasheed Wallace you know we talked about Shaq coming to double he did by him doubling the Lakers

Had to rotate and it left the open gu and then pyton who had everybody covered and he looked at Malone saying Carl you should have come back to me and that caused him to walk with it and Carl’s thinking I couldn’t come back I can’t move out here one minute remaining in

The third Phillips got it three chist will you all likelihood get the final shot of the quarter milking it down Kobe stays with bips but then bips gets free inside again Larry Brown showing why he is the consumate coach he goes through all of their planning all of their

Strategy for the timeout and then he says to the guys look they’re supposed to beat us we’re not supposed to beat them especially the way we played in the first half and only two points down and as they broke the Huddle Rasheed Wallace yelled at his teammates twice he said be

Hungry be hungry Al Hamilton to try to tie it and does so the Detroit Pistons down by 11 in the third of CAU him with Rasheed Wallace on the bench phips had 16 points in the third quarter eight of eight from the line now Walton comes out

To pressure Hamilton gets it to ur was sha 20 ft from the basket three-pointer here goes from Lindsay Hunter boy Derek Fischer took his eyes off of Lindsay Hunter for one second that one second cost him three points for Shack wants the ball gets it for on the clock and

Ben Wallace rejects it soundly here’s Walton dishes it to O’Neal and will that be an offensive foul oh baby wow that’s five really surprised that in that going low with rased Wallace with Luke Walton Gardner oh there he is there he is Rasheed Wallace to the hoop tied at 75 Rasheed Wallace

Phillips 770 wton feeds it back to Bryant six on the shot clock now three Kobe’s going to get it off and it’s tapped back out to Hamilton Hamilton driving got It and briyan briyan is furious he didn’t get a foul wow eight on the shot Malone goes down no foul it’s dropped off reverse layup and jam by Ben Wallace crowd on its feet Hamilton fiser couldn’t get the rebound and Wallace takes it out of his hand and

Puts it in Hamilton big deuce put Kobe Bryant back on Rip Hamilton johy clearing it out then Hamilton gets free shot clock at six what a rebound by Wallace and he puts it back in he is just magnificent on the glass 14 rebounds for Ben Wallace now

Shaq has to get it out to Malone looking for the three here’s Bryant a pressured three that doesn’t go O’Neal with a rebound gets the put back and gets fouled and now up comes a huge foul shot for O’Neal not elegant aine Drive goes in it’s a three-point game and everyone

Is paying attention to Kobe Bryant they start with Shaq he gives it to Walton Here Comes Kobe less than five from way outside got it oh man with 2.1 Piston’s lineup vertically break it Prince looking looking looking and then it’s taken away by Malone Who falls into the photographers this the game clock

Shows zero and we will go to overtime at this rate I would like to see a 11 game series at least Hamilton little runner in the lane goes to make it a fourpoint good move by Larry Brown and then Bryant loses the ball yeah he was trying to do too much

There but but I can understand after watching Le’s last Lakers will fly tomorrow it’s an off day fourth game would be Sunday night the third game on Thursday night as Bryan drives in actually has that one cleanly blocked and now Hamilton gets fouled by Devin George Auburn Hills is next johy

Phillips guarded by pton at the outset into Ben Wallace who’s guarded initially by O’Neal and he’ll shoot over Shack and Bank it in now I don’t think the bank was in question when he let that go as Shaquille O’Neal misses his first opportunity the night Ben Wallace over

To Rashid Malone gives it back to Bryant and his first effort of the night isn’t even close Ben Wallace gets another rebound and underneath the rashed Wallace and that gets the crowd really going well instead of posting rashed Wallace I think you’re going to see him in a lot

Of pick and rolls Bryant from O’Neal in Mission here’s Bryant losing the ball Prince was on him now bips through the lane and a foul on his way to the basket Larry Brown told me before the game basketball is basically about three things you got to play hard you have to

Try and play defense and you have to share the ball he said we played hard we did not all of us try and play defense and we didn’t share the ball he said Kobe’s shot is not what beat us the fact that we did not do all three of those

Things that’s what lost the game for us and he looked at me and he said I preached this to my team and he said there are guys in the locker room that believe that Al isn’t any sport you’re going to go after the guy who’s hurt two

More for Hamilton and Detroit has begun the game in almost a perfect fashion Phillips he a two big kns gets free got it long two and an eight-point piston lead Bryant flips it over to pyton quickening to the corner George now gives it to Malone and gives it back to

Deon George but he gets contested shoo around today Malone did next to nothing didn’t do very much at practice yesterday where the Lakers boarded Hamilton drives and goes all the way into the layup Phillips will drive then to Prince pyton comes over to doublin scores anyway left-handed 14 seven Pon

Started 8 nothing their lead is now down to one under four to play in the opening period O’Neal gives Wallace room this time the bank doesn’t go but the follow does by Hamilton ball windes up with O’Neal underneath the George and he has to volleyball it back out to Kobe seven on the

24 Payton with three on the 24 and then Wallace has the rebound dislodged but on a foul now Bryant four on the shot clock from way outside and Hamilton Skies to the rebound Hamilton long two got it skined a little bit on the floor but was able

To rebalance himself and puts it in and the lead is six again Rush misses the three Hunter has it 6 seconds to go hunter lays it off for Prince big one well that’s what the crowd was looking for and Rasheed Wallace who’s usually got headphones on not saying anything to

Anyone he was having a spirited argument with ESPN Stephen A Smith about boxing jumping up and down laughing and yelling how Mike Tyson is defeat this Champion if Detroit is emotionally deflated from game two then to a man they all deserve an Academy Award for the dramatic

Portrayal clock was reset at 14 on the inbounds Williamson underneath got it there is no way that Kobe Bryant is going to guard coris Williamson down on the post lore comes in he has the ball big man from Turkey replacing Ben Wallace and Williamson takes the pass and scores 29-6 Detroit Bryan still

Looking for the first field goal of the [Applause] game that lean tries for the separation initially then has to throw it to rush who can barely keep it alive five on the clock underneath fer tried to lob it into O’Neal hit the top of the backboard how the Pistons Pride themselves on holding

Teams under 20 points in a quarter in game one the Lakers were under 20 three out of four quarters they lost game two Lakers 20 or more in three out of four quarters and they won there’s 545 left in the second quarter of this game and the Lakers still have not cracked 20

Points they’re are 19 they had 16 after the first quarter three points in about I would figured out how but my math isn’t that good it’s fascinating on any level even without the numbers just to watch it and watch what’s going on as O’Neal this is the little jump hook in the lane

Detroit will try to expand the lead which is now a dozen points you know you watch the game the Pistons right now are getting every shot they want and it’s rare that the Lakers get any shot that they want that’s the difference of the game right now ninepoint piston lead

Bryant Prince on him doing a heck of a job on him and he throws it away you know last game Rip Hamilton guarded Kobe Bryant a lot and taon Prince got upset at Larry Brown about it and so Larry Brown has now put Prince back on them and it’s had an effect so

Far in this game the Pistons have had opportunities and they have gone well they they’re old for their last 10 and they finally get off that mini schneide as Hamilton drives to the hoop Phillips and we mentioned before the Pistons starters as Wallace makes the steal the Pistons starters mono almano

With the LA starters have dominated and again the reason for that is everybody on the Pistons team the starters minus Ben wallet can score right now only two of the scor are on the Laker staring lineup here’s Dean George from three-point LAN Phillips lcks it for Hamilton and he’s

Right there perfect Pass Perfect finish Malone Brian has to give it back to Malone underneath here’s Shaq and Shaq got free because he threw Wallace down so the offensive foul on Shaquille O’Neal Phillips gets a screen from Wallace and cashes [Applause] it B with the drive throws it up and it

Goes it counts and he’s fouled toy B is playing terrific basketball in this series here’s phips three-pointer for chony bips again pick and roll pton goes under chy bips makes him play he shoots the ball too well to go under on him here’s Brian still can’t get it to drop three

Guys ran that Kobe on that last shot rashed the Hamilton followed by Prince Jackson has to take a timeout Kobe gets pressured Kobe puts one up and finally knocks one down Kobe Bryant makes his first field goal about 4 and 1/2 minutes into the third quarter but

Even on that there were three Pistons coming around putting the hands up you remember the bad Bo created the Jordan rules now I think they’re some kobe rules going on in the game this evening and Ben Wallace from rashed Wallace Bryant behind his back from the

Lane can’t get it to drop J Wallace has just two points and spent again the majority of the first half on the bench with 2000 it’s taken away by Prince 10th Laker turnover Prince again he’ll drive this time got it that’s one thing that taan Prince has

Has done a great job of in this series is attacking the baskets o’ lost the ball stolen away George tried to seal couldn’t Hamilton is free for three make it two he was just inside the ark Bryan doubled in the corner has it taken away johie phips has IT Crowd of

Rors Hamilton has it knocked Away by medeno the clock still rolling and some from way outside Prince was forced to put it up ball is loose Hamilton gets it makes it gets fouled that out is a huge Place fer has it blocked by Hunter and then out of bounds every time Lindy

Hunter has coming gam he’s made an impact for this basketball team and most of it has been with his defense and his [Applause] Energy look at the help that they’re having on Kobe Bry chy bips was standing at the top of the circle paying no attention to his guy just waiting look at Chelsea phips at the top he’s just waiting you see him there at the bottom of your screen he’s just waiting for

Kobe they’ve done this all night and it has really affect Kobe Bryant Hunter dishes outside will he get an assist on a three yes he will Hamilton lindsy Hunter made that entire play and Campbell with his steal and Campbell gets it from Hamilton but can medido stop him no he

Cannot only Lakers to go to the free throw line tonight have been Bryant and Mone Shaquille has not even been to the line once well I’m going to guarantee you one thing the next game is on Sunday You’re Going to Hear B Jackson say that 1,000 times

Hunter you can see right now Kobe Bryant and Gary pton and Luke Ren are pressuring all over the floor trying to take the Pistons out of their offense Brian playing with just amazing energy here’s Hamilton and nothing like a three to stop that energy FL clock era

Now 50 Seasons old Lakers never below 70 in a playoff game here’s O’Neal out of bounds for the Lakers P so good on the offensive boards they’ve out rebounded the Lakers 135 and there is the guy who has a lot of those adding two on the offensive end Ben Wallace

This using the clock on this possession then Wallace loses it Brian comes and he loses it again Hamilton to the hook Rip Hamilton exploding tonight for 29 Points off the side of the board the Pistons get the rebound though instead of running out the clock go puts it up

Only question left is can they hold the Lakers to under 70 which would be an all-time Laker playoff franchise low in the shot clock era and the Pittman have held a lot of teams under 70 this year and they’re going to hold the Lakers under 70 well Al we said the number for

The Pistons was between 85 and 90 they get 85 points they hold the Lakers to 68 Malone tried to get it into sha and then gets it back hits Bryant for the fadeaway in and out rebound to Rasheed Wallace the officials at dick Metta Jack

N and Eddie rush and for Laker fans that gives them pause as phips misses it Prince gets the offensive board and scores the first points of the game every time down they look to get the ball to Shaquille O’Neal they want to force Detroit at some point in this game

To go double coverage to free up The Other Guys Hamilton gets space after he was initially covered by Bryan perfectly puts it into time of the game Bryan comes back and they triple him and he loses the ball Ben Wallace comes away with it and I think Larry was as shocked

As anybody as Philip Pi the tie to day Larry coming into the game his biggest fear was that O’Neal would dominate games in the manner that he has played in the first few minutes of this one as Wallace gets by Malone and stores I think what the Lakers did there

They put Rick Fox on the post they’re going to try to make Rip Hamilton guard Kobe Bryant if not they’re going to keep poking up box Phillips got free Bryant short walas gets the rebound he might have just gotten another vote more here’s Bryan his sixth attempt misses again so five misses out

Of six shots and most have been contested though I thought his first two looks some pretty good looks inside to Rasheed [Applause] Wallace here’s Hamilton wearing that face mask to protect the broken nose and the jam by Rasheed Wallace underneath Detroit backup on top alone

Has to fight for it goes all the way in gets too far underneath and it’s taken away by Rasheed Wallace well he just had no Li that’s from his knee Bryant with O’Neal creating the screen way outside and then it’s Rasheed Wallace with the block and the

Takeaway quickly to Prince he’s going to drive all way put it in count it goes to the line he once again Kobe Bryant drives gets caught in traffic rasid Wallace makes a great play and it allows the Pistons to do the one thing they’ve done offensively throughout this series

Is attack the basket and go to the foul line he’s fing what is that gone for right here Bryant misses Ben Wallace Kobe gets an open look Bryant boy he’s not even close tonight van Wallace here comes the gun there’s only four on the Tim and fox

Doesn’t know how much is left now he does so Fox came into the game but wasn’t aware how much time and Hunter’s going to make him pay Lindy Hunter all the way to the basket and Detroit trying to finish the first half with a rush that’s a great

Example when you come off the bench you have to know time and score and that’s an uncharacteristic Mistake by Rick Box and O’Neal loses the ball ball and it’s stolen away and there’s no foul and this is James and he gets fouled and they’re going to count it because they’re going

To call it Go tending Malone gives it back to Bryan Kobe in traffic Kobe has it partially blocked Malone gets it trying to get it to O’Neal Pistons retain possession James again dishes back to Big Ben he’ll get a mini gong he little to the free throw line

Malone see rashed Wallace is basically not guarding Carl Malone and if Carl Malone is not going to take that shot then he’s not going to be able to play in this game and the pists of course with a great defense the Lakers almost with a 24se second violation having to

Force a shot at the end Prince will drive softly puts it In three on the timer Phillips at the horn got it that was a perfect Larry Brown exec Ed play Carl Malone is going to have to look at the basket because right now rased Wallace is not even guarding him and the follow is there after the prince Miss rashed Wallace

Puts it back in Malone well he’s going to pass that shot up again now Bryan Bryant gets it back off balance look at the traffic two on nothing break automatic for bips three players three players ran at Kobe Bryant when he put the ball on the floor the Detroit PS have decided

They’re going to employ the Kobe rules Bryan turn around missing here rased Wallace off the glass see now you can see what Kobe’s trying to do is go quick before help can come but that’s not the Rhythm that he wants to shoot the ball at into O’Neal Hamilton is on him and he

Gives it to medeno and he’s short gets his own rebound and gets fouled on what the Pistons think is a jump ball by Wallace and then Wallace and Med vieno start to jostle you know and I hate to say this out but if I’m the Lakers I don’t

Separate you know what I mean oh yeah I know what you mean I really do it’s like making a trade you want you want to make a trade yeah you want Med venko sure we’ll take him out you take Wallace out absolutely you know when

You’re a little kid and you kind of push the guy into the other guy I would have pushed him into Wallace instead of separating because that’s a great trade for you if you’re the Lakers Phillips looking inside for rased Wallace medeno guarding it puts it in I love that

Hamilton right back to wall they do it again rashed and Med venko and that time he puts it in it counts off the glass and he’s fouls you know there’s old saying sometimes you should let sleeping dogs lock rased Wallace has been quiet since the first quarter Bea DL comes in

Gets him excited now he scored the last two buckets and he has a chance here to get a three-point play Payton and Bryant underneath travel Hamilton beats Payton again this period starts with Walton fiser and Foxon Kobe and sha for La it’s Elden Campbell who helps to reject it and here comes

Hamilton with Ben Wallace on the other side making a 12-footer but once again they are making Kobe Bryant give it up Walton guards Hamilton now Ben Wallace six on the 24 Hamilton gets it up and makes it long two for Hamilton Walton the pton six on the 24 Walton to the corner

Bryant another tough shot another tough shot that’s where someone else is going to have the oh baby in the house erupts on the L to Rasheed Wallace and the Lakers have to take another timeout Al the Lakers Swagger that this team possessed coming into the finals is not evident on the LA bench

Right now there seems to be apprehension coupled with concentration and I’ll tell you the looking Phil Jackson’s eyes is one you do not see very often none of the Lakers was willing to call tonight a must-win situation Phil Jackson said before the game we’re going to be okay

We just need to extend the series but Al if they don’t do it tonight they absolutely have to do it Tuesday and Wallace gets the Miss and puts it back in and that equals the biggest lead of the game Hamilton Wallace Rashid Wallace Phillips will put it up from outside

Three-pointer Phillips from Beyond The Arc six-point game again Shany Phillips under five to go and Gary pyton makes contact and gets whistled that’s what pressure defense will do to you Rip Hamilton has been pestering him the whole quarter and there you see a little Chuck in the

Thro Hamilton stops in the lane get the B has it going you know what’s funny Kobe Bryant has G it R all day got a nice job then tosy Phillips gets going so they put Kobe on tosy Phillips now rip Hamilton’s got it going Ryan Phillips gets the rebound we’re down to three minutes to go in the fourth game Hamilton five on the timer here’s Rasheed against Med venko again whoa wow you know what’s interesting everyone talks about hacka shat you know maybe they should have whacked a B warless I

Was thinking number three he’s the guy instead it’s Rasheed and Max should be the dagger he’s throwing him that’s for sure the E Conference Final at the very end of the Eastern confence finals all the questions is ugly offense bad offense bad offense I think you’re looking at

The Lakers with 78 points with a minute left and you’re finding out great defense toing this to three pton looking around kobby all the way has it stripped in the lane O’Neal will end it with a meaningless lay in to cap for him a 20 rebound and 36-point night but the

Pistons has have set up a situation where they can win it and win it at home on Tuesday Wallace at 6-9 gives away about 3 and2 inches and that time a legal jump ball and the Lakers get it that means they will start the fourth quarter with a possession and if

You’re a Laker fan every sign is important mean that every possession is important is why Shaq didn’t try to steal the ball and Slava meeno who got the ball from O’Neal dropped it on the Baseline after sha was doubled and then almost tripled as Malone takes a seat on the bench well

The one thing we know about Slava minko he’s going to give himself a chance I mean he is not an unwilling shooter over medo and Wallace drops one in that’s where they miss car Malone car Malone’s ability to push Wallace off the block Bryant takes Prince out and with

Hamilton in his face can’t get that to go and a whistle underneath and Bernie frier is going to call a loose ball foul here on O’Neal and so that’s two already on Shaquille O’Neal 4 minutes and 2 seconds into the game and in this situation Jackson of course minus Malone has to

Leave him in and then Wallace Drive for the hoop and Ben gets the Gung from the guys upstairs as he drops one in to make a 10 s Bryant goes underneath loses the ball no foul fall and it winds up in neno’s hands for the basket Jack comes

Out of the game here and from the corner it is taan Prince for a long two cook missing see that’s the one thing Cooks can do now you’re wondering why fi Jackson takes check out well he has two fouls that’s number one I think the

Other reason is they have a five to down three-point lead and he’s going to look at the scoreboard and watch it and as long as the Lakers have a lead or even get down just a little bit he can afford to sit Shack that was Rasheed Wallace

And that’s Bryant ball comes out to dein George Bryant again and Bryant gets pushed by chy bips you mentioned the other night the Lakers had 35 personal fouls in the last game the Pistons 20 that was the largest difference between the number of fouls for two teams in any

Game in the 58e history of the NBA Finals we’ll beat a lot of them at the end but still it’s been the story of the Shi yeah it really has been and and the reason it’s such a big story Al is because the Lakers led the lead in free

Throw C cook made a terrible pass but it came back to Bryant and then the call is against the Lakers Bryant guarded by Prince shoots over him doesn’t drop Big Ben high for the rebound now off fist can assume the lead here Phillips puts

It on his hip goes all the way got the bounce Kobe Bryant for the Lakers has started out cold again Kobe one for five hitting only 38% from the field in this series Prince all away drops it in see they know that Shaq can’t help and if he

Does help they’re going to throw their bodies right into him pton guarding Hamilton puts it in over Gary to make it 1918 lead seaw Payton loses stolen by Wallace he’s out in front all alone 2118 on the steal by Big Ben head Theo can’t get it to drrive rebound to

Phips Pistons running the floor scor it Hamilton [Applause] 2318 with three on the timer Brian can’t drop it and that’ll be the end of the first quarter and that is really significant because what players and teams do they focus so much on trying to draw the foul on shots that it actually

Takes them out of their Rhythm and their offense and Kobe has the ball stolen Mel last fou was on Elven Campbell now Bryant nearly has it taken away and does in fact by the hands of Hunter leading to a Hamilton break and dunk see Kobe Bryan just did exactly

What Bill Jackson didn’t want him to do p he love to force the ball up the floor one of the reasons is it makes sha work that much harder yeah it’s like Cho in the tree now they they say it may not give him a make a big deal for the first

Three quarters but by the four quarter they don’t think Shaq can keep running Hamilton gets free back door and that’s a rare sh that you will see R Hamilton driving towards Shaq and Shaq getting out of the way but that’s because of the two foul bad pass and it

Results in nearly a piston basket but at least they go to the free throw line underneath bips revers putch it in so chony bips got it in got it back and chony bips now has eight points Bryant too hard Prince behind the back great move to get

By Bryant does it again and can’t get it to drop it’ll go to the line two behind the back dribbles now Bryant puts one up Kobe stays cold Bryant is three of 10 from the floor Pistons meanwhile are hitting 57% from the field and since they’ve

Been going to the free throw line more often that’s a tough combo to beat and Ben Wallace is too tough to beat right there and the lead is nine Wallace wow [Applause] Ur me okur from the corner a three-pointer for okur big aners big shot is short rebound keeps getting

Tick w up in the hands of Prince he’ll drive all the way brings the house down Bryant puts one up well I think the P love when he settles they love when he settles for a fade away jump shot even though it is one of his staple shots

With tan Prince’s Lim they will take that shot all game Pistons eating up the Laker defense a SC Drive softly puts it in and they leave by 12 with Jack on the B Malone and shivy stored as I was standing outside the Laker locker room during halftime something very unusual

Happened a Laker official came out of the locker room and shushed people in the hallway things were obviously getting tense inside that locker room Kurt Ramis told me players were attentive we overplaying guys on D we’re allowing them to penetrate back to you guys and this Begins the second half

Does with a Rasheed Wallace three-pointer PR short but again they keep it alive and Ben Wallace gets the assist on the Hamilton layup when the Pistons have a double digit lead they are there just tough as anybody to beat because of their great defense and then

Bryant loses it on his way to the basket and looks back at Joey Crawford Hamilton can’t get there but Campbell does Rip Hamilton calls that play with the dribble penetration Prince Drive softly thrs it in I’m watching that for the Lakers players didn’t know who they had O’Neal missing both free throw

Attempts he’s three out of 10 the Lakers are 11 of 19 F Wallace over Brian Russell that’s what happens when you go small on Ben Kobe loses the ball there’s no foul in the lane here’s Phillips on the drive got it goes to to the line the Detroit pisin are

Smelling the goting ball and they’re going for it right now Ryan give and take with sha gold didn’t W did that on purpose now he knew it was going in he wants to show the intimidation factor of the Detroit Piston this reminds me of Patrick Yuan against Villanova just knock it out to

Scare him he didn’t [Applause] care Phillips here’s Campell free got it with O’Neal coming all the way out on him Campbell went down he thought he was fouled everything is falling right now and a double technical now Hamilton and Payton carrying on with each other well

That’s the next step you know when when you’re getting dominated the next step is to to try to do other things verbally get into it see if you can throw them off this way another three that’s the third play three now Bryant will drive hang in the lane nothing goes and Ben

Wallis with the rebound Bryan missing Campbell Phillips how Rook Hamilton just came back in the game you saw him he caught that blow to the face but that face start he’s wearing it’s worth $2,500 the reason he’s wearing it he’s broken his nose twice this year already

The doctor said if he has another one he’d have to miss the rest of the season what happens when he gets hit all of the Brun of the blow goes against the forehead and the chin so he is okay wow Coast to Coast with no one stopping the

Ball before this series we said if the Lakers didn’t play defense they would not win this series the Lakers have not play play defense and it’s so loud and they’re so inexperienced as’s a unit out on the floor they couldn’t even get a shot away at the end of three lindsy

Hunter starts the fourth quarter with a steal that one Laker BS now four B Wallace he’ll tip it back in himself over Brian Cook this has been a dominating performance this entire series and you’re right Al you can make the point that the Lakers are very lucky to be

Playing tonight you get the feeling the way this is going that these teams could play 10 more games and the Lakers might not win one I mean it’s been that dominant won to [Applause] rush Hamilton on [Applause] fiser it’s almost like the party has started with

10:32 still left in the game yeah the party has started there is no doubt about it every long rebound a piston releases and gets a fast break and it’s been oneon-one fast break basketball for the Pistons and I said fast break basketball for the pist the party has started

French Detroit a much younger team and as the Lakers will end their season unraveling in this series Detroit ends it on a high note and and they just add exclamation point after exclamation point don’t forget about the rookie that didn’t fight this year M what you’re talking about you know Larry Brown said

Something really interesting about him you know he’s so young he’s only 18 years old does he know how important the world championship is he said he might know more about the World Cup than the world championship Wallace on a Turnaround rush I’ll tell you a guy getting a big kick out of this right now Dean Smith I’ll tell you how all Bo yes Red’s lighten up a cigar you think about these CHS there won’t be one guy who comes to mind you’ll think about a collection of

Guys it won’t be Michael Jordan’s bulls or Jack and K’s Lakers or Duncan and Robinson Spurs this is different Kobe Bryant there’s johy bips Ur Larry Brown doing everything he can now to get everybody to come off the come off the floor as they reach triple figures get the individual

Acclaim and why not the pisses are going to wind down the playoffs with some good defensive play their trademark their Hallmark they’re going to win the middle three game something that no team has done at home since they went back to a 232 format an 85 there was actually a time

In the mid-50s believe it or not when a home team won all three games in the middle it was the Pistons they were in Fort Wayne but of all crazy things they played those games in Indianapolis and beat the Syracuse Nationals and the last team to win an Eastern Champion he from

The East without Phil Jackson being involved with is he Joy pistons in 1990 Rick Fox ending the game hunched over his former teammate lindsy Hunter and congratulating him as the clock TS down and the Detroit distance wow who won the ladies and gentlemen who won the

NBA Championship in 89 and 90 and they The Crazies just have to stop blowing up stuff in indoor buildings before we have a disaster thank you commissioner but the Detroit Pistons have just shocked the Los Angeles Lakers 187 to win the NBA title the number two seed in the Eastern

Conference and for the Lakers it truly will be the end of a particular era they’ve had the three championships they brought in the other guys we talked about how much they’ll revamp for Joe Dumars who was selected by Bill Davidson to run the team he can exalt Bill Jackson will

Contemplate his future and they’ll talk about that very shortly I’m sure in the next couple of days as the confetti rains down at the Palace of Auburn Hills chony bips a likely candidate for the MVP award and the Detroit Pistons is gritty gutty defensive oriented team plays phenomenally on both ends of the

Floor and beat the Lakers in five the Kobe Bryant the biggest of question marks of course for him yes and so he the complete contrast in evidence here as the game is over tan Prince you guys did something that nobody outside your locker room thought you would it wasn’t

Just that you beat them but how what did you all know that nobody else did uh we just took it to him man we knew we could play with everybody in this league and I think we showed it today but uh obviously they came out gave it

Everything they have and we just we just kept fighting we kept fighting and uh it was just an allaround effort by everybody today everybody in your lock room was concerned about one thing coming into this game not to get so uptight that you Tred to do too much

Individually how did you blow him out like this hey there a situation where it was it was like a a last game for them we said the same thing for us this the last game look look at it us being down 3-1 how we took it we haven’t seen you

Smile the entire series man give me one you know what I’m feeling so happy right now it’s all inside but man I can’t even feel it I can’t even explain it right now one of your teammates said once that you don’t have a pulse I see your pulse say in your heart congratulations

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