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Can the Pistons repeat?

By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider

Wednesday, July 7, 2004

How's this for a championship blueprint? Build a team with no superstars, no max contracts, no major egos. Bring in the misfits -- NBA castoffs working on their third or fourth chances in the NBA. Ask them to play defense and run through walls, to emphasize heart over scoring averages, teamwork over stats and hard work over flash. Build the anti-Lakers, then watch them demolish the competition. Pistons president Joe Dumars' vision for last season's Pistons was uncompromising. The results w ...

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