“This team has been built in a similar mode to the Bad Boy Pistons and then the Pistons of my era,” Indiana coach Rick Carlisle, who coached Detroit the year before its 2003-04 championship, said before Monday’s game. “(They’re built) on physicality, toughness, depth; they’re a mirror image of the personality of the city. Now they’ve got a great coach with J.B. and a great staff there. So, they’re making a pretty clear statement that they’re for real.”
New York Times
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