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Hey guys, I was reading about the 2004 season and noticed the Nets where 2nd seed. The Pistons had a much better record but where third, can anyone explain why this happened?

Thanks,

ReturnofMVP3

Winning the division I believe was the reason. Nonetheless, Detroit had home court and won the series.

ReturnofMVP3 wrote:Hey guys, I was reading about the 2004 season and noticed the Nets where 2nd seed. The Pistons had a much better record but where third, can anyone explain why this happened?

Thanks,

ReturnofMVP3

that was before they changed the rule and the top seeds went to division winners.

that series was rough, we had them down 3-2 with game 6 in jersey coming off a win where we scored like 130 points on them (most they gave up all year), which was even more crazy given we scored just 58 points in game 1.

Kidd didnt show up those last couple games. posted a 0 pts 7 assists 5 rebs line in game 7. easily his low point(on the court) as a net. that game was so hard to watch because they basically jumped out big and we never even got back in the game.

Those teams would have been so much better with a scorer. I always wonder what could have been if SAR didnt fail that physical

Still bitter about that series. IMO, the main reason why we lost wasn't because Detroit outplayed us. It's because Kidd was playing on one knee and just played like garbage as a result. If we had even a 50% Jason Kidd, we win that series in 6 games.

Don't know how it would have gone down against Indiana, and we would have definitely lost to LA in the Finals if we got there, but I think we matched up great with Detroit that year, and if Kidd wasn't hurt, we would have won.

therealbig3 wrote:Still bitter about that series. IMO, the main reason why we lost wasn't because Detroit outplayed us. It's because Kidd was playing on one knee and just played like garbage as a result. If we had even a 50% Jason Kidd, we win that series in 6 games.

Don't know how it would have gone down against Indiana, and we would have definitely lost to LA in the Finals if we got there, but I think we matched up great with Detroit that year, and if Kidd wasn't hurt, we would have won.

agreed... that was a stomach punch series. if we got anything from kidd those last couple games we take them down. That team just couldnt run without him... we ended up relying on jefferson and kittle for a ton of offense, which was asking too much of those guys

Thanks guys that is interesting to know .