Hey Everyone – What’s up? This is A.C.

What a feeling – playing basketball this late in the spring!

You knew New Jersey was going to make a run, but I didn’t think it was going to be that strong of a run. Then our bench, which had been sputtering for a while - really since Sasha was put in the starting line-up - came alive. Coach Brown went with his shooting unit, and it helped spread the floor with Donyell, Daniel and Damon - the Nets couldn’t sag in the middle - and it paid off..

Daniel really matured and Donyell gave himself a great birthday present. And Damon did a good job with Jason Kidd, fighting through the picks, and he kept Kidd’s penetration down in the paint. He only took one shot, but the Nets still had to run across the floor to cover him. It really showed me who the Cavaliers are. We need shooters around LeBron so we can see what he really is – a 20-10-10 guy. He’s a facilitator and to be a facilitator, you have to have someone to pass to. We need those guys to be offensive-minded but defensive-oriented, able to hit the shots and get back on D...

We made the Nets change their character. We outrebounded so they had to stay home, stay around the basket. We made them play out of character and in that fourth quarter of Game 6, it caught up with them...

Can you imagine? Four games away from the finals…

We basically play the same style as Detroit, so it’s going to be a battle of wills now. We know what they do, they know what we do. You might see a different type of defense, a zone press or a trapping zone; you may tweak your plays a little differently, let someone different initiate the offense…But mostly, you can’t do what Dallas did, and that’s change what you’ve done all season...

I think the Pistons are close to their peak, if not a little beyond it. With Chris Webber in the middle, they are older. But he wants a ring and wanting a ring is a way to motivate themselves...I would attack Billups and Rasheed, attack those guys, put them in pick-and-rolls where they’ll have to guard our guys, make them play defense...

The Pistons are confident, but they have doubt. We are the underdogs so we can go in and have fun and thus we should be a dangerous team. If our shooters are shooting, we should have no problem with opening the floor for LeBron. We are the one team who has a reason to beat them. We should’ve beat them in four straight games last year. They know that we have the incentive...No one has respected us all year, so now is the time to prove them all wrong…But in the end, you have to do it. You have to win the games...