Yes I know the Pistons are tied in a series with the Cleveland Cavaliers. And yes I know that many sports analysts expected the Pistons to sweep the Cavs. Heck, I even expected the Pistons to win in five, but that didn’t happen. The Pistons as of now are tied in the series at 2-2. Most of us die-hard-fans are asking ourselves, why? More importantly, some of us fans are worried that the Pistons may lose to the King James and Co. Although most of you will be pretty distraught over what has happened I am going to answer each one of those questions and prove why the Pistons will win.

First, we ask ourselves why? How could this be? Our Motown Pistons can’t sweep these lowly Cleveland Cavaliers. How did they beat the Pistons two times at Cleveland? Well there are four main factors that played into this sudden let down.

-First and foremost, King James is averaging a staggering 21.5 pts.(yes well below his season average but hold on) 9.5 assist, and 9 rebounds per game in the last two games in Cleveland. Yes Lebron scored about ten points under his season average, but he has SHARED the ball, which other superstars like Kobe can’t figure out. Lebron got his teammates and that was one of the big reasons his Cavs pulled away two victories.

-Secondly, most people say that they are going to play for a person and win because that person is mourning. Somehow I got to believe that Larry Hughes and the Cavaliers are really close. They really meant it when they said they would get Hughes some victories for his mourning family. I think I speak for most people when we say that we are sorry for their family but this series is not over and the Pistons will not let it go. Sorry Cavs.

-Thirdly, they had a bench that played well and our Pistons bench didn’t. It’s that simple. Hunter was off, we didn’t see the shooting we saw back in Detroit and in Game 4 McDyess had a whopping 0 points!! Also Anderson “Frodo” played extremely well and brought lots of energy of the Cavs bench and outplayed Hunter and McDyess.

-Lastly, it was at Cleveland enough said.

Now why will the Pistons come back and win the series. Well, their several important factors that will come into play that the Cavaliers just won’t be able to match. First of all and the most obvious is that the Pistons have home court advantage and they will win every game played at home against the Cavs. Moving on to the second key is that the Pistons starting five will prevail. They will be too much of a match for the Cavaliers. Yes maybe Lebron will score 40, but at the Palace no one else will step up. Thirdly, the Bench will come back. Dice will play good back home and Hunter will play with more of an edge in front of his home court fans. Now when the Pistons win game 5 I am not sure what will happen in game 6, which is in Cleveland. The Pistons will need to overcome the past to losses there and their excited that their team is playing well with the best team in the NBA. The Cavs may force a game 7 but don’t expect an upset, but I will say this, I give Cleveland and King James props for what he has done this series.