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Catch all the action with George Blaha and Rick Mahorn on UPN 50, your Pistons Playoff Station on Tuesday, May 6th, as the Pistons host the Philadephia Sixers at The Palace at 8:00 p.m for Game One.

George Blaha: As promised, we’ve got the Bad Boys, Bill Laimbeer and Rick Mahorn, to dissect what turned out to be a seven-game series with the Orlando Magic and a resounding Pistons win. I don’t know who was more impressed with this game, Laimbeer or Mahorn, but you both had to think it was something special.

Bill Laimbeer: I did. I thought we hammered them.

Rick Mahorn: I thought it was a great series and a great game, and you know when you win Game Five, which is important, you’re pressured to win a game. That pressure turns into more energy, more focus, and the Pistons came out with a lot of focus and a lot of confidence the whole series.

BL: I think it’s fun to go out there, and you have a team like Orlando thinking they’re going to win; you have a player like McGrady talking a bunch of smack and just stick it right in their ear. It’s the best!

RM: T-Mac played well, until he started getting worn down. When you’ve got guys who can’t really play -- similar to what Chicago had before they got Pippen – if you don’t have an extra Batman or Robin with you, you’re not going to win this series.

BL: But still, they’re a first-round loss, and everybody is going to be writing about T-Mac in Game Seven and how he bricked up a storm.

GB: The last Game Seven around here is when Scottie Pippen got a migraine in 1990.

BL: I remember that one!

RM: I should have remembered that too, you bums, but I wasn’t here.

GB: You moved on to Philadelphia.

BL: Well we won without you, anyways.

RM: Oh. Okay.

GB: Tracy McGrady 7-for-24 in Game Seven. But if you look back on this series, he scores 43 in Game One on this floor and they get a win. They had a good plan, they seemed confident, and you could tell right then it was going to be a series.

BL: Tracy played well. They got Game One. Any time you come into a series like this, you can steal that first game. It puts tremendous pressure and a confidence shaker on the Pistons, and Orlando almost pulled it off.

RM: They did. They almost pulled it off. They did what they had to do the first time – they won Game One, they made sure they had home-court advantage, but like Bill says, it’s not a sprint, it is a marathon - if it were a five-game series, we wouldn’t even be talking. But it’s a seven-game series, you have to play a tough team seven times. The Pistons came out being tough.

BL: I don’t buy part of that. I think if it were a five-game series, the Pistons would have won Game Four. They would have come out with the intensity they showed in Game Five and Game Six, and they would have won that game if they had to win.

GB: Well you never know, but I will say this about the series: the Pistons had to answer the bell, they had to regroup and show why they were the top seed in the East. If you look at Games Five, Six and Seven, they look like the best team in the East.

RM: They are the best team. They looked like the team that was possessed, that they wanted to win and they made sure they didn’t want to go fishing, they wanted to stay home, they wanted to play at home. If you do that you’ll win all your home games. I learned this from you, sir (BL) – take care of home, win as many games on the road and that’s how you win championships. That’s a great recipe.

BL: Chauncey Billups showed that the second half of the season was not a fluke. I mean, 40 points in the playoffs and then back it up with 37. Say what you want about McGrady, but Chauncey Billups took it to Orlando and along with Ben Wallace, they really have two star players out there right now with a lot of supporting cast.

RM: When you’ve got Tayshaun Prince, who’s a little rising star, the Prince of The Palace is starting to…

BL: Prince of The Palace? Where’d that one come from?

RM: A little word play. It raises his confidence level up to say, “Hey! I want to be a part of this fun, too.

GB: The fun begins in Round Two on Tuesday, 8:00 tip against the 76ers. They take their basketball seriously in Philly, and Rick Mahorn knows that.

RM: Yes, they do. Larry Brown will have them prepared. He wants to do the same thing the Magic did, and try to win that Game One which is the key game of the series.

BL: You’ve got Ben Wallace there. The key to Philadelphia is Allen Iverson. Every time Allen starts driving in the middle of the lane, Ben’s there swatting it all. A big part of Iverson’s game is penetration and lay-ups, but he won’t get that against the Pistons.

GB: They have a nice, physical team and the kind of squad that can really test you. It’s going to be great in the Eastern Conference Semi Finals. I’ll see you here on Tuesday.