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Detroit has habit of letting teams back

By Joe Lago
ESPN.com

Friday, May 28, 2004

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- There's one more guarantee you can make about the Detroit Pistons and you don't need to put a microphone in Rasheed Wallace's face to document it. The surest thing about these 2003-04 Pistons: When given a chance to put an early stranglehold on a playoff series, they will let it slip away. "That's the crazy thing about it," Rip Hamilton said. "It's the same thing like in the New Jersey series. When we had the opportunity to put a team down & we didn't play the way we're ...

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