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Dynasty in Flux
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On the eve of basketball’s final series, I sit in a dark, depressed room dealing with demons who’ve haunted me and others like me since the perennial fall of the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals last week. In the days following the defeat I travelled across Ontario not once but twice, searching for either a) an answer to the painstaking struggles this team, my team, had endured over the previous few days, or b) a means of letting them slip my mind all together.
Following the Game 5 loss in Boston, I put together what I felt, at the time, resembled a rational outlook on a gut wrenching defeat. The defeat on that Wednesday night, as you likely know, was the type that reverberated so profoundly in one’s mind that it was surprisingly easy to overlook the brain splitting pain that sporadically returned in excruciatingly sharp increments over the course of the evening. In other words, it was the type of loss that hurt so much that it didn’t even really hurt, the type that numbs the mind to a level of calm indifference.
For Pistons fans, our wits and senses were overwhelmed by the paralyzing loss, but only when reminded of the context in which the defeat was dealt. Like the tides of the ocean’s coast, the pain would rise with expressions of angst and frustration, before falling away subtly as we recalled similar situations in which Chauncey Billups and company had found themselves and eventually prevailed. The magnitude of the series-defining match was downplayed in an attempt to ignore the fact that Detroit basketball traditionally perishes in mid-to-late-May.
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Dynasty in Flux
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