AUBURN HILLS -- The Pistons woke up Thursday morning staring smack in the face of what would be one of the more epic upsets in modern sports history.
The two-time Eastern Conference champions, who had the best regular-season record in the NBA, are down 3-2 to the upstart Cavaliers and face premature playoff elimination tonight in Game 6 in Cleveland.
Their mind-set might surprise you -- then again, maybe it won't.
"We haven't lost this series," Chauncey Billups said. "We aren't going to lose this series."
Though things were quieter than normal at the practice facility -- mostly because Rasheed Wallace was in the back taking treatment on his sprained right ankle -- the Pistons remain defiant.