Ecstatic Basketball

Ray Allen finally found his shooting touch, hitting 5 of 6 from deep and all 6 of his free throws. Garnett and Pierce were similarly brilliant, but it was the play of Perkins that won this possibly decisive game 5. He was awesomely efficient on both ends of the floor. His defensive game was truly one to admire. He has the size to match up against the big men from Detroit, but he has the quickness, activity, and smarts to competently switch on pick and rolls and exact great help defense. The Pistons need to start treating Perkins as a scoring threat and continue to let Rondo prove himself capable of hitting deep jumpers. You would think the Pistons would’ve won given their 102 scoring, 38 free throw attempts, 11 of 21 shooting from deep, and a bit of bench production, but Perkins hammered them with offensive rebounds.

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