DETROIT — Look, we’ve all seen sufficient playoff video games to comprehend it’s not as straightforward as blinking your eyes or snapping your fingers or taking a well-placed fist to a jukebox like Arthur Fonzarelli, and magically Frankie Avalon begins singing “Venus” at Arnold’s Drive-In. You may’t simply flip a swap. Actually not on the street.
The Pistons are too good for that. They’re too powerful for that. Possibly some assume they’re taking part in with the home’s cash now that they’ve handed again the home-court benefit to the Knicks after Thursday’s 118-116 New York victory in Recreation 3. They don’t really feel that means.
Possibly some consider this can be a damned present. The Pistons don’t consider that. They assume it’s a damned struggle. They would be the extra determined staff Sunday afternoon, simply previous 1 o’clock, when Recreation 4 of this best-of-seven Japanese Convention first-round collection resumes.
And if you happen to occur to note that the Knicks went from being 1.5-point favorites Thursday to two-point underdogs Sunday regardless of the identical lineups, in the identical enviornment, earlier than the identical rabid followers, that’s all you’ll want to know.