Everything started out magnificently for Detroit on Thursday night at the SBC center in San Antonio. The reigning NBA champs held the Spurs at bay through the half but sometime during the third their vaulted defense began to crumble under a combined Spurs onslaught. Leading the way to bring out the tears in Detroit was Manu Ginobli who ran wild on the court building a commanding lead for the Spurs. Tony Parker was literally running circles around a suddenly confused looking Pistons team and by the time the last few minutes of the game ran down it was all a matter of beating the clock.
"I don't worry when the Spurs are down," said one Spurs fan. "I worry when they're ahead."
Why? Because the Spurs have a way of coming back when they really need it but they also tend to lose their leads sometime after the half. This time the Spurs, who didn't take a lead in the game until sometime in teh 3rd quarter, got it together just in time and went on to win game 1 of the NBA finals, leaving them 3 victories away from being the next NBA champions.
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