In the 1986-1987 season, the Pistons relied on the Bad Boy Army, won 52 games throughout the season, ranked third in the East, and the first round opponent was the Washington Bullets with Moses Malone, at that time, the Bullets team in addition to the ace star Moses Malone, there was also a guard, Jeff Malone, this brother averaged 22 points per game in the regular season, but the bad boy Army who faced the Pistons in the playoffs urinated directly, averaging only 15 points per game, shooting only 37%, Jeff Malone was among the three major Malones in the league at the time, (the other two were Moses Malone and Carl Malone), with an average output of nearly 25 points per game at his peak, and this time in the face of the Pistons' iron-blooded defense, Jeff was directly scared, and his signature catch-and-shoot after running without the ball was directly blocked by Joe Dumas's never-ending running, which is also one of the few black spots in Jeff Malone.

The Pistons, 3-0 in three games, advanced to the second round, and this time, they met their old rivals, the Atlanta Hawks led by Dominic Wilkins who knocked them out of the playoffs last year.

This round of the series ended with the Pistons beating the Hawks 4:1, but the result of the game does not say how miserable the first round of the series was, five games, none of the games had a difference of more than 10 points, Wilkins played abnormally, averaging 22.2 points per game while shooting only 38.2%, Isaiah Thomas also had the upper hand in the matchup with Doug Rivers, Thomas averaged 27.0 points and 7.8 assists per game, while Rivers only had 8.6 points and 11.6 assists, and Hawks guard Randy Whitman played well, averaging 19.2 points per game and shooting 55.1% from the field, but it was difficult for him to go it alone, and the Pistons scored in double figures for all six of their teams, and finally defeated the Hawks and advanced to the Eastern Conference finals.

On the floor of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pistons met their opponents, and he was the Boston-Celtics with Bird, with Parish, with McHale.

The NBA in the 80s was the era of "black and white", the Celtics led by Bird and the Lakers led by Johnson took turns to ascend the NBA throne, and the season before this season, the Celtics won the NBA championship.

Their strength is obviously higher than that of other teams, and it is even more difficult for other teams to get a share of these two teams, but this time, it happened that the Celtics met the Detroit people who were tough and not afraid of death, hardship, and difficulty.

In the first two games, the Bostons won at home, Parish and Bird took turns, in the first game, Parish scored 31 points, and Bird scored 18 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists triple-double, in the second game, although Thomas gave 36 points and 10 assists, but in the end he lost to Bird with 31 points, 9 rebounds and 12 assists, and Parish also got 20 points and 9 rebounds.

In the last two games, the Pistons found cover for themselves on their home court, and in the third game, the Pistons won 122-104, under the Pistons' almost crazy defense, no one on the Celtics team scored more than 20 points, and Dantley and Thomas combined for 48 points to lead the team to victory, and in the fourth game, the Pistons reached an even more incredible height, they slaughtered the Celtics 145-119, despite how many players the Celtics scored double-doubles, But obviously, a lot of people are garbage time to brush up the data, Dantley in this game showed his true colors, 15 shots of 11 of them, 32 points, Ranbier is even worse, he is in Parrish's head, 10 of 13 shots to score 20 points and 13 rebounds, the bench in the bench Vinier Johnson deserves to be the court "microwave" 20 shots 12 of 20 from the field to 25 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, Thomas is 22 points and 8 rebounds, The game was a great one, and no one in the team played more than 35 minutes!

After the game, Rick Mahon, who scored 17 points on 8-of-11 shooting in the game, said,

"The Celtics aren't so flawless either, and in Detroit, on our turf, whoever comes has to pout their butts."

In this game, there was a small-scale group fight between the two teams, Bird was directly knocked down by Ranbier's clothesline after a layup, Bird was the master of confession, got up from the ground and fought hard with Ranbir, Rick Mahon smelled blood, and immediately raised his fist to participate in the battle, fortunately the referee intervened in time, and there was no large-scale group fight, Bird was angry, picked up the basketball from the ground, and smashed it on Ranbill's head, Ranbier touched his head, and said to the referee with a smile,

"He hit me with the ball, should I give him a technical foul......

Bird was in a state of mind in this game, only scoring 16 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, and 3 turnovers, Ranbir is such a player, he never resists the opponent head-on, but in the dark, with despicable small actions from time to time to disturb the opponent, make the opponent lose his mind, so as to help the team win.

The battle between the two sides reached ** in the fifth game, Boston sat at home, and in the last 3 seconds of the game, the Pistons led the Celtics by 1 point at 107:106, and also had the ball, everyone thought that the Pistons would win the game, but the NBA is so wonderful that it is incredible, the consistent and steady Thomas throw-in free throws were stumbled and stealed by Bird, and then, Bird passed the ball to Dennis Johnson in the front court in the moment before his body was about to go out of bounds, who slapped the horse to the basket, Lambir and Mahon standing under the basket, both of them wanted to pull Johnson down directly and let him make free throws, but Johnson had expected this - this is the usual style of the bad boy army, Johnson took a step forward to the basket, and then switched to a left-handed layup in the air! The entire Boston Garden arena was in a boil, accompanied by the extreme chagrin and loneliness of the Pistons players......

In the sixth game, the Pistons also won the Celtics on their home court, Venice Johnson and Rick Mahon became key figures, Johnson played 27 minutes and scored 24 points on 9-of-15 shooting, Mahon scored 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting and grabbed 18 rebounds, and in the crucial seventh game, Joe Dumas was very powerful, scoring 35 points in the whole game, and single-handedly redeemed Bird's 37 points, but unfortunately in the game, Dantley and Vinier Johnson saved a throw-in and hit their heads together, Dantley was diagnosed with a concussion on the spot and sent to the hospital, while Johnson was out of shape after his reappearance, and the Pistons were no longer able to maneuver with the Celtics, so they lost the game and the series.

In seven games in the playoffs, Dantley is still the core of the team's offensive end, averaging 23.6 points per game and shooting 57.7%, which is a pretty good stat for a forward who is good at shooting, Thomas averaged 23.6 points and 9.1 assists per game, and Vinier Johnson averaged 17.4 points per game as the sixth man.

In the 1987-1988 season, the Pistons' bad boy army added another hitter, he is the 213 cm high school forward James Edwards, this person has a big waist and a round waist, started with defense, his nickname "Buddha", can play against beating, his career runs through 19 years, he was even worse than Lambir at one time, as long as he sits on the inside, that little man dares to break through, Edwards comes up and can't help but say that he will be knocked down in minutes, and then let you go to the free throw with gold stars.

In the 1987-1988 season, the Pistons continued to improve, and this season Dantley was hit by injuries, playing only 69 games this season, averaging 20 points per game. Thomas averaged 19.5 points and 8.4 assists per game, Joe Dumas played 82 games and averaged 14.2 points per game, Ranbill averaged 13.5 points and 10.1 rebounds per game, Rodman averaged 11.6 points and 8.7 rebounds per game, Rodman was still a normal person when he first entered the league, playing and grabbing rebounds by Ranbill's side, but he was familiar with Ranbill's evil, and finally escaped into Ranbill's "fighting basketball" and became Ranbill's chief disciple.

This season's Pistons won 54 wins to create team history, and entered the playoffs as the second in the East, in the first round, the Pistons' opponent is still last year's old acquaintance, the Washington Bullets, at this time, the Bullets team has one more superstar under the leadership of Double Malone, that is, Bernard King, who has just been transferred from the Knicks, in the first two games, Isaiah Thomas and Jeff Malone, the two of them scored 30+ points in both games, and the Pistons won the first two games, and the last two, Thomas's offense is slightly weaker, but Jeff Malone is still full of energy, he led the Bullets to win the last two games, the key fifth game, Jeff Malone, who had been mighty for almost a whole round of the series, suddenly peed again, scoring a pitiful 4 points on 12-of-12 shooting, Joe Dumas played well and scored 20 points on 7-of-11 shooting, Thomas scored 16 points, 11 assists, 6 rebounds and 5 steals, and finally the Pistons defeated the Bullets and advanced to the second round.

The Pistons' opponent in the second round is the league's favorite Chicago Bulls, and at this time, the leader of the Bulls is Michael Jordan, the god of basketball.

Jordan once scored 59 points against the Pistons in a national broadcast game, Daley was very annoyed by this, he had long predicted that the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Cavaliers were not the opponent of the Bulls, so he developed an unprecedented tactic to deal with one person, that is, the legendary "Jordan's Rule." ”

The essence of Jordan's rule is to force Jordan to break through to the left, because his shooting rate of breaking through to the left will be lower than that of breaking through on the right, and the second is that Jordan is never allowed to play blocking and dismantling with his teammates, when Jordan's teammates have the intention of blocking and dismantling Jordan, Ranbir, Rodman or Edwards immediately rushed up to block the advance of his teammates, and even did not hesitate to knock him down, third, when Jordan fell into the position with his back to play alone, he did not hesitate to wrap up the three and strengthen the physical confrontation, of which Rodman was a key part, Rodman is tall and strong enough to handle Jordan, and his feet are not slow, and when Jordan wants to pass the ball, he tries to block Jordan's passing lane.

This is Jordan's fourth year in the NBA, averaging 35 points per game in the regular season, shooting 53.5% from the field, which is the league's new superstar, the Bulls are not fully equipped that year, and the only one who can help Jordan on the court is Jordan's gold medal fighter Charles Oakley, Averaged 12.4 points and 13.0 rebounds per game, Scott Pippen, the second in the world, was a rookie at the time, all 79 games in the regular season were benches, in addition to Jordan in the team, the second breakup was just Sam Vincent, who came to work as a short-term worker, averaging 13.0 points per game, in the first round, the Bulls eliminated the Cavaliers 3:2, Jordan averaged 45.2 points per game in full firepower, and met the Pistons in the second round, which was the first year that Jordan was bloodbled by the Pistons for three consecutive years.

In the first game, Jordan scored 29 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 turnovers on 11-of-22 shooting, Dantley, Thomas Mahon, Winnie II Johnson's offensive efficiency is not high, Mahon even shot 0 of 8, but Rao is like this, the Pistons still defeated the Bulls 93-82, this game, it can also be seen how different the configuration of the two teams is.

Before the game started, the Pistons' bad boy army secretly made up their minds to give Jordan a good look, they thought so, and they did so, at the beginning of the game, Jordan broke through the inside line with the ball, and Rick Mahon who defended him put his arms around Jordan's neck is a hug and fell, directly throwing Jordan out of three meters away, Jordan lay on the ground for a long time and didn't get up, and the Bulls at that time also had an NBA "golden hitter", named Charles Oakley, who had a big waist and a round waist, The number of fights in a lifetime is more than the number of plays, Oakley immediately ran over and pushed Mahon, of course, Mahon was not to be outdone, the two major hitters in the NBA saw that the volcano was about to hit the earth, the referee appeared in time to prevent a large-scale group fight, after this game, the media no longer called this group of players of the Pistons a bad boy, but directly described as a "thug"!

In this regard, Thomas, who has never lost the wind in verbal battles, stood up and spoke, saying that Jordan is a cautious person, we play ball, not only to knock you down on the court, but also to conquer you mentally! Are you scared? Don't come here to play if you're afraid!

In one sentence, Thomas and Jordan formed a bond that they never untied for the rest of their lives.

Obviously, Thomas doesn't like Jordan, but the problem also comes, Jordan has never offended Thomas before, why Thomas hates Jordan so much, maybe all this can only be explained by Thomas's character.

Thomas is a native of Chicago, Chicago was poor and backward at the time, but it was very united, before Jordan, every time Thomas went to his hometown to play, he was greeted with cheers and applause, but since Jordan was born, all this has changed, Chicagoans give all their love and enthusiasm to Jordan, for Thomas, there will even be boos, which makes it difficult for Thomas, who is very self-egoistic, to accept, although Thomas is a very selfless defender who plays, But in fact, he hopes that he will be the center and focus of every game, he likes to control, control the trend of the court, this character, and Dantley's departure has an elusive relationship.

In the second game, Jordan scored 36 points and 11 blue and white shots on 14-of-22 shooting, Vincent exploded and scored 31 points, Oakley also scored 10 points and 12 rebounds double-double, on the other hand, the Pistons were still playing groggy, Thomas scored 25 points and 13 assists on 7-of-20 shooting, Ranbir scored 15 points and 14 rebounds on 6-of-14 shooting, Dumas, the three killers on the outside, Dantley and Vinier Johnson only scored 18 points on 8-of-25 shooting, James Edwards finished with 16 points and six rebounds on 7-of-9 shooting and was the most consistent player on the Pistons, who lost 95-105 to the Bulls in the series.

In the last three games, the Pistons' outside three guns took turns, the third game Vinier Johnson played 25 minutes and scored 23 points, the fourth game Dantley scored 24 points on 7-of-10 shooting, and in the last game Dantley and Thomas combined to score 47 points, and the Pistons sent Jordan home to fish 4:1.

In the whole series, the Bulls' tough defense made the Pistons' offense quite difficult, Thomas averaged 20.4 points per game and handed out 10.4 assists, but the shooting rate was only 40%, Dantley averaged only 18.6 points per game, but the Bulls, who only relied on Jordan on the offensive end, were still not the opponents of the Pistons in terms of firepower and staffing. scored 27.4 points, shooting less than 50%, snuffing out Jordan, and the Bulls were simply powerless to parry.

In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pistons once again met their bitter master last year, the Boston Celtics.