Back in the day

A nice recap of the first Bulls/Pistons rivalry, from a Piston perspective, of course. My favorite quote:

Laimbeer: "Aside from winning the NBA championships, the biggest thing for me was finally clearing that obstacle with Boston. We didn't give Chicago a thought. But keeping the Bulls down was a good task. It was fun. Chicago thought they were a pretty good team, but they whined and cried so much that you had to shut them up. You couldn't pick up a newspaper without hearing them whining and crying, so you knew you were getting in their heads. But what bothered me most was how they went into the newspapers and called us all kinds of names, personal names, like portraying us as bad guys. But time has proven that our team never had any issues with the law or any issues with the league. They did.

"By the time they finally broke through and beat us, we were done. It was fun keeping them down, though, for as long as we did. It was clear that Michael Jordan was a great player and his time was coming. But we enjoyed keeping them down -- very much so."

As nice as the game was yesterday, I'm hoping it wasn't fool's gold. Chicago's not that bad and Detroit's not that good. I hope the Pistons don't get it in their head it's going to be that easy.

Perhaps more importantly, the Red Wings are up 3-2 in their series against a really tough team from San Jose. I'm proud of them.