Mitch Albom: Do Detroit Pistons have finishing touch in Game 7?
The Detroit Pistons have the defense to finish off the Orlando Magic in Game 7. But will they show the effort early enough to get it done?
But does it carry over? That’s the big question. A hangover, you feel the next morning.
An Oscar win, you revel in the next day. But an NBA comeback for the ages — after a near-collapse that would have sent you home to a depressed offseason? What’s the follow-through on that?
We are in uncharted waters here, folks, on Sunday, May 3, at Little Caesars Arena, where the Detroit Pistons will take on Orlando in Game 7 of this first-round NBA playoff series, one which already feels like a season unto itself, a Russian novel of fits and starts, herks and jerks, heroes and villains. What we witnessed in Game 6 will be talked about for a long time. But not so long if the Pistons don’t bring it home in Sunday afternoon’s finale.
The simple truth is, what Detroit did in Orlando: rising from the dead, turning a 24-point deficit into a 14-point win, holding the opponent to less than 11% shooting — in a half! — cannot go unfinished. The Pistons must win this series to have that validated as one of the greatest comebacks in NBA history.
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