Tony DiLeo won't look back. He hasn't even mentioned to his team how they had the perennial Eastern Conference power Pistons on the ropes in their first round series, leading two-games-to-one, then taking a 10-point lead to the lockeroom in Game 4, before it all unraveled.
Detroit took command of that game in the third quarter, eventually cruising to a 93-84 win that evened the series, then never looked back in successive 17 and 23 point wipeouts that sent Philadelphia home for the summer.
So, faced with the exact same scenario against an Orlando Magic team struggling to find its offensive groove, would DiLeo give them a quick refresher course to try to make sure history wouldn't repeat itself? ``I haven;t talked about last year at all,'' said DiLeo, an hour before tapoff. ``The guys here from that team probably learned from it.
``But this team is completely different from last year's team. From what I recall Chauncey (Billups) really took over the game, then Rasheed (Wallace) and Rip (Hamilton). It got contagious.''
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