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[quote="TGB!":b5824]Eh - they got bounced as most expected, but still managed to take the defending champs to 6 games, as well as a 25-11 finish for the season. This from the team that was crawling in the bottom of the Western Conf. - I'll take it.

Much easier overplay when folks expect you to underplay - than it is to underplay when folks think its a fargone conclusion that youll be the 2006 Champs.

Do you even live in Detroit?[/quote:b5824]

I live 20 minutes away and have been here thru the badboys (had the hammer time tshirt...lol) and the bill laimbeer john salley poster with laimbeer crushing a basketball(remember that bleu)

I also was here for the awesome years of Olden Polyniece, Mark Macon, Allan Houston, Lindsey Hunter, Bison Dele's, Mikki Moores. Stacey Augmons, Oliver im a fat ass millers, and the whitest of the white Pete Chilcutt, and all the totally shit years where grant hill was a superstar and we would get swept out of the 1st round of the playoffs by the atlanta hawks(seemed like every year)

does that qualify me to be a fan and to be excited in behind a team I watched grow step by step year after year into the team it is now?