Not So Worthy of Your Attention: Celtics vs Pistons

It just ain’t what it used to be: “I think you knew what you were going to get from the Pistons night in and night out (last year),” Paul Pierce told reporters in Boston. “They had played together five, six, seven years. They didn’t make a lot of mistakes. They were a well-oiled machine and they weren’t a team that beat themselves … Right now, with the transition they’re going through with Allen Iverson, trying to figure out their identity, you never know which team is going to show up,” Pierce said. “You have a team that plays well in spurts and then has a little inconsistency.”