The Pistons and Celtics resume their best of seven Eastern Conference Finals tonight back at Boston’s TD Banknorth Garden with the series tied at 2 game a piece. The game tips at 8:30 EST and will be a nationally televised ESPN game.

Eighty-three percent. That’s how often the winner of game five goes on to win a series after being tied at two games a piece.

With the way the first four games of the series have gone who knows how the Pistons will come out? I would like to see the Pistons treat it like an elimination game, that’s how Paul Pierce and the Celtics are approaching it. You can expect that Boston’s big 3 are going to look to redeem themselves after all the heat they took for being canceled out by Detroit’s defense, especially Kevin Garnett.

Quite simply the Pistons need to play Detroit Basketball for 48 minutes. They need to defend like a mother. They need motion in the offense. They need solid contributions from bench guys like Maxiell, Stuckey, Hunter, & Ratliff. Flip needs to make substitutions that make sense. Pull out all the stops. Hell, get Gisele Bundchen court-side front and center. And if they do need any more motivation than magnitude of the game this might help.

Dice played with so much heart and purpose on Monday. Hopefully it’s contagious. Sheed is due for a big game, why not tonight? Chauncey doesn’t need to be spectacular, just steady. Same goes for Tayshaun, he needs to stay at home at Pierce and pick his spots on the other end. As for Rip just keep taking it to my new favorite Piston.

GO PISTONS!