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Celtics find winning combination on defense

By Peter May
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Watching the Pistons try to score these days is pretty painful. After a fish-in-a-barrel performance in their opening-game victory over the Celtics, they have been reduced to a CBA, or even CYO, offensive unit. In three straight losses, Detroit couldn't get to 80 points (or, as it's known in Dallas and Sacramento, halftime) nor shoot as high as 40 percent. The Celtics dismissed Game 1 as an aberration, promised things would be different the rest of the series and, so far, ...

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