The Pistons are Ike, the Bulls are Tina

That's two games, and two merciless poundings ... and at no point in the 96 minutes of basketball have the Bulls ever looked like they were going to compete.

And the bad thing about it for Chicago is that there's no one thing that the Pistons are doing to them to shut them down ... it seems like everyone in a Pistons uniform is getting the shots they want, while no one in a Bulls uniform is doing the same.

Chicago tried in the second half tonight to speed the game up and play at a higher tempo. They came with a 1-2-2 zone press on defense, and offensively, tried to get up shots before the Pistons could set up on defense. They did have a little bit of success with this, and with their zone defense (the Pistons played a lot of zone, too, this was like watching a college game) in the second half, but it's hard to read a ton into that since the game was decided by then.

It's just such a contrast from what the Bulls did in their series against the Heat. They were the team getting any shot they wanted, it was the Heat who looked a step slow and without confidence. Now it's the Bulls who look slow to loose balls, even slower to rebounds, and with no confidence that anything they do offensively will work. The Pistons always force them to their third and fourth options, and Bulls are still taking tough shots.

The only question that matters is if Chicago's home crowd can give them enough of a boost to compete, and I think it can. It's a young team that doesn't have a lot of playoff experience, and home court comfort probably matters a great deal to them.

Still, you get the feeling that when they do get home, get their confidence up, and get some aggressiveness back ... it still might not be enough.