02-12-2007, 09:15 AM
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Chris Webber's effect on our team
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In the past few weeks, the Pistons have been a different team. A better one.
And that goes beyond the flexibility and wow factor Chris Webber's addition has brought to the offense.
For the first time this season, this team is playing like it's excited. The players look as if they are having fun.
That's an important change from the season's opening 10 weeks, when the Pistons rarely looked inspired or energized, two factors inherent in most championship-caliber teams. Although there were moments of greatness -- a fine win over Dallas on the road, a great team performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, a calculating win over the Cavaliers in Cleveland -- rarely did the players look like they were enjoying themselves.
After much success and so many years of sharing the floor together, the Pistons carried themselves with a case of been there, done that. For many fans, even the Pistons' best moments seemed stale.
It was worth wondering whether it was the team's desire to pace itself or whether such a blasé squad could really compete for a title.
That all changed with Webber's arrival.
Now, as Lakers coach Phil Jackson noted last week, the Pistons look enlivened, refreshed and rejuvenated.
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