Originally published Friday, May 2, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The Philadelphia 76ers got the Detroit Pistons' attention. Then they got steamrolled. The Pistons powered into the second round of the playoffs...
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers got the Detroit Pistons' attention. Then they got steamrolled.
The Pistons powered into the second round of the playoffs by crushing Philadelphia 100-77 on Thursday, winning the series 4-2 and again demonstrating how good they are when they feel they need to be.
Detroit convincingly won the last two games of a series that wasn't expected to last this long. The Pistons will host the Orlando Magic, which eliminated Toronto in five games, on Saturday in the opener of the Eastern Conference semifinals. The teams split four meetings this season.
"Philadelphia probably woke us up," Detroit coach Flip Saunders said. "Over the last 10 quarters we've executed as well as we can."
Richard Hamilton hit his first five shots during Detroit's overpowering start and finished with 24 points, 13 in the decisive first quarter when he outscored the 76ers by himself. Chauncey Billups added 20 points and Tayshaun Prince had 12 for the Pistons, who reached the second round for the seventh consecutive season.
They were all on the bench for nearly the entire fourth quarter, when the lead ballooned over 30 points. Detroit held Philadelphia without a field goal for nearly the first six minutes of the game, ending any real hopes the Sixers had of forcing a Game 7 back in Michigan.
"It's difficult because it's our home court and we wanted to play well," said Philadelphia's Andre Miller, who had another quiet game with 11 points. "We were maybe a half away from going up 3-1. We kind of fell apart after that."
| DETROIT | fg | ft | |||||
| min | m-a | m-a | or-t | a | pf | pts | |
| Prince | 32:18 | 5-6 | 2-2 | 1-7 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| Maxiell | 30:28 | 3-3 | 3-4 | 0-4 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Wallace | 25:13 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Billups | 31:29 | 8-11 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
| Hamilton | 32:34 | 9-14 | 5-5 | 0-2 | 5 | 2 | 24 |
| McDyess | 14:44 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| Stuckey | 21:44 | 2-8 | 2-2 | 2-5 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Hunter | 0:03 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Afflalo | 15:11 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Ratliff | 14:10 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Johnson | 11:25 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 2-6 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Hayes | 10:41 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Totals | 39-67 | 13-16 | 7-39 | 28 | 26 | 100 | |
| PHILADELPHIA | fg | ft | |||||
| min | m-a | m-a | or-t | a | pf | pts | |
| Iguodala | 31:21 | 4-7 | 7-12 | 0-4 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| Young | 18:05 | 2-8 | 3-4 | 3-4 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Dalembert | 25:24 | 3-6 | 2-4 | 3-6 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Miller | 34:07 | 4-16 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| Green | 17:41 | 2-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Smith | 20:50 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Evans | 24:54 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 4-7 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Williams | 26:37 | 3-11 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Ollie | 14:08 | 1-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Carney | 20:07 | 2-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Amundson | 6:47 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Totals | 25-74 | 24-36 | 15-34 | 12 | 16 | 77 | |
| Detroit | 30 | 21 | 28 | 21 — 100 |
| Philadelphia | 12 | 21 | 18 | 26 — 77 |
Attendance: 14,130 (20,444). Time: 2:24. Officials: Jim Clark, Scott Foster, Bennett Salvatore.
Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company
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