On November 19, 2004, the Pacers vs. Pistons game broke out in the largest, most severe and worst group assault in NBA history, which became known as the "Auburn Hills Palace Incident".

Before this incident, in fact, there were some discordant factors, Big Ben won three best defensive players in four years, and he was the same last season, which made the Pacers general Ron Artest, who is also a defensive gate, extremely unhappy, and in the playoffs last season, the two teams were constantly friction on the floor of the Eastern Conference semifinals, and finally at the end of the year, it turned into a large-scale group fight.

I won't say much about the cause of the palace in Auburn Hills, if you are interested, you can refer to Baidu, in comparison, the Pistons were fined a lot because they did not participate in the subsequent brawls between the players and the fans, and the losses were small, and the final Big Ben was banned for 6 games.

Auburn Hills Palace time also affected the Pistons' record, at the end of 2004, the Pistons only got a mediocre record of 15 wins and 13 losses, but after 2005, the Pistons were all the way forward, and finally won the top spot in the central division with 54 wins and 28 losses, Hamilton is still the team's first firepower. averaged 18.7 points per game, and in the game on November 28, 2003, when the Pistons narrowly defeated the Cavaliers, Hamilton scored 44 points on 15-of-23 shooting, setting his own single-game scoring record at that time (later broken by 51 points in 2006), and scored 12 points in one breath in the last five minutes of the game, directly taking away the game in waves!

Billups is averaging 16.5 points and 5.8 assists per game, including the fifth-highest percentage in the league on 42.6 percent three-point shooting, and has also been named to the All-Defensive Team twice this season, along with his teammate Prince. Prince ushered in a metamorphosis this season, 82 games full attendance, an average of 14.7 points per game is already the team's third firepower, in addition to 5.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.5 blocks of comprehensive data, shooting rate as high as 48.7%, is the highest shooting percentage among the starting five Tigers, in the next eight or nine seasons, Prince has maintained this level, Prince and Billups entered the league's best defensive team 2 this season, opening the prelude to four consecutive selections to defend 2 teams.

Starting power forward Rasheed Wallace averaged 14.5 points, 8.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.5 blocks per game, and the performance was still good, but the Pistons were in good shape, but unfortunately, whether it was Billups, Hamilton or Prince and Tianzun, they were not selected as All-Stars this season, and Tianzun ranked fourth in the Eastern Forward list in the popularity vote, second to Carter, Grant Hill and O'Neal Jr., Prince was ranked eighth, and on the guard list, Billups ranked sixth, followed by James, Iverson, Wade, Francis and Kidd, and Hamilton followed Billups in seventh place.

Big Ben was once again named Defensive Player of the Year and was named to the All-Defensive Team. He averaged 9.7 points, 12.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.4 steals and 2.4 blocks per game, ranking second in the league in rebounds per game, second only to Kevin Garnett, and fourth in the league in blocks per game

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In addition to the main players, the Pistons also sent Eldon Campbell, the secret weapon that was ready to deal with O'Neal, to the Jazz, in exchange for Puerto Rico's demon guard Carlos Arroyo, Arroyo's style of play is gorgeous and free, and the tricks in the dribble are quite the shadow of white chocolate Williams, he is the ace player of the Puerto Rico national team, and his ability is naturally good, but such players have a problem, that is, they play with themselves as the center, to put it bluntly, they are more independent, their defensive ability is average, and their personality is not very gregarious, Alone, although the team's head coach Jerry Sloan had to use him due to the Jazz's injury on the guard line, Sloan, who is used to playing traditional basketball, does not like Arroyo, who has a "flashy" style of play, so the demon guard with good talent was traded and sent to Detroit and became an important substitute for the team's backcourt, in 40 games for the Pistons, He averaged 5.4 points, 3.2 assists and only 1.3 turnovers in 17.7 minutes per game, except for a 37.6% shooting low, but the overall performance was still very good.

Except for Delfino, who fell due to injury in his rookie season, the eighth man on the team is veteran Hunter Lynch, who averaged 15.1 minutes per game, 3.8 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists. You ask what Milicic, the star of last year's talent list, is doing? I'm sorry, but I'm still sitting on the bench with the Pistons every game, and I've only played 37 games this season, averaging only 6.9 minutes per game......

After the end of the regular season, the Pistons, who only started in the second half of the season, ranked second in the East with a record of 54 wins and 28 losses, the first was firmly occupied by the Miami Heat with Wade and O'Neal, and in the first round, their opponent was the Philadelphia 76ers with Iverson and Chris Webb, and the 76ers even though they had super scorer Allen Iverson, averaged 31.2 points and 10 assists per game, and Chris Webb, an interior offensive weapon, averaged 19 points per game, but the team's other positions were flawed, and the big center Dereembert's average of 11.6 points per game was already the team's third-highest score, and no one else was able to score a double-double, and the highly-anticipated spring man Iguodala averaged only 9.8 points per game, hoping for the sharpshooter Kyle Korver's play, but the latter also fell into Detroit's iron bucket formation, as a shooter, he shot 28.6% is averaging just 5.0 points per game on shooting from the field and 29.2 percent from three-point range.

On the other hand, the Pistons are more blossoming, Hamilton scored 21.4 points and 6.0 assists, shooting 51.2% from the field, Billups 18.8 points and 6.8 assists, Prince averaged 17.4 points, 7.2 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, Tianzun averaged 17.0 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, Big Ben averaged 12.8 points, 12.2 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game, McDyce also averaged 8.6 points per game, and after five games, the Pistons easily eliminated the 76ers 4:1 to enter this round.

In the second round, the so-called not enemies do not get together, and the Pistons met their old rival, the Indiana Pacers, who fought with them in the regular season.

Due to the Auburn Hills Palace incident, the Pacers' star forward Ron Artest was banned for the entire season, and the team's strength was greatly reduced, and O'Neal, Jackson's suspension also seriously affected the team's record, resulting in the Pacers having no home-court advantage in the playoffs, and the Pacers at this time had no advantage against the Pistons, and after six games, the Pistons eliminated the Pacers 4:2, and O'Neal Jr. was completely blocked by Big Ben, scoring an average of 16.3 points per game but only 37.6% shooting, Another big player, Stephen Jackson, is worse than Xiao O, averaging 12.8 points per game and shooting only 32.6%, and the three-point shooting rate is even more miserable 18.8% can be said to be completely blocked by Prince, Reggie Miller averaged 14 points per game and the three-point shooting rate was only 28.1%, after the end of the season, the disheartened Miller announced his retirement, and the Pistons Billups and Hamilton both contributed 18.7 points per game to lead the Pistons to the Eastern Conference Finals.

In the Eastern Conference finals, the Pistons encountered a hard stubble, that is, the Miami Heat, who ranked first in the East in the regular season.

This year's incomparable scenery of the Heat team, after the Lakers O'Neal and Kobe Bryant broke up, it caused a shock across the league, and the ultimate beneficiary was the Heat, they sent Odom, Brian Grant and a first-round right, a second-round right to the Lakers, and got this super center, at that time O'Neal still had the last peak of his career, and he was still able to average 22.9 points, 10.4 rebounds, 2.3 blocks per game, and the shooting rate was as high as 60.0%!

In addition to O'Neal, sophomore rookie Dwyane Wade's performance is even more explosive, with his average points per game soaring from 16.2 points in his rookie season to 24.1 points, in addition to being able to deliver 6.8 assists, grab 5.2 rebounds, 1.6 steals and 1.1 blocks of comprehensive data, Wade is not good at projection, but no one in the league can break through, the style of play is tough, and the destructive power is strong, which has proved that in the sky above Miami, a superstar is rising!

In addition to O'Neal and Wade, the Heat starting lineup also has Eddie Jones, the former All-Star steal king, this is Jones' twelfth season, Jones grabbed the last tail of his peak, and he can still score 12.7 points per game! Damon Jones, O'Neal's biggest beneficiary of his trip to Miami is him, this is Jones' seventh season, but he has changed a full nine teams, and has been a substitute for the team before, scoring inefficiency has always been his label, shooting percentage is only 40% all year round, but after O'Neal came to Miami, he pulled a huge shooting space for Jones, Jones played the most efficient season of his career, averaging 11.6 points and 4.3 assists per game, shooting 45.6%, With a three-point shooting rate of 43.2%, this statistic ranked fourth in the three-point shooting percentage of the year, behind only Joe Johnson, Catino Mobley and Mike Miller in the league, from an inefficient shooter to the team's most reliable outside shooting machine!

O'Neal's partner is sophomore rookie Udonis Haslem, Haslem participated in the 2002 NBA draft, but because he was too fat, he was defeated, and later went to France to play, and successfully lost weight, was invited to enter the Heat training camp, performed well, was signed by the Heat, and had been playing as a substitute for the team's power forward Brian Grant, O'Neal traveled east to Miami, Grant was sent to the Lakers, Haslem was corrected to become the team's starting power forward, Haslem's offensive and defensive ability is relatively average, He is a very useful role player, averaging 10.9 points and 9.1 rebounds per game this season while shooting 54% from the field.

At that time, there was also Chinese superstar Wang Zhizhi in the Heat lineup, this was Dazhi's second season in the Heat, and his last season in the NBA, averaging 2.2 points in 4.6 minutes per game.

This Heat class is not a team to mess with, and this time, can the Pistons beat them?