Bury with care: even in an unpredictable postseason, it's dangerous to start throwing dirt on the Pistons before they're good and gone.(NBA) From: The Sporting News | Date: June 2, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Lindsey Hunter, a reserve guard for the Pistons, gave a bit of a smirk and turned the tables by lobbing a question at a reporter. "Did you bury us?" he wanted to know. "I know a lot of you bury us before we're dead. That's not a good idea, ever." Well, Lindsey, after your team's Game 5 loss at home--the first time the Pistons dropped three straight this year--some of us may have had your coffin prepped. But buried? Nope. As fellow Piston Richard Hamilton said, "Don't do that till you hear the final horn go off."

When that final horn did go off, ending Detroit's remarkably ...