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AND I QUOTE THE GREAT DICE:

Even though Orlando [doesn't] want to see us, how much can you really beat a team? Eventually they say, ‘Hey, enough is enough.’ I feel they’re more dangerous than anyone we could play. You can only beat a team so much before the tables turn.”

Pistons forward Antonio McDyess, refusing to regurgitate the one shred of positivity that shell-shocked Detroit fans have been clinging to for weeks, which is the widely held assumption that this nightmare season can be saved (at least somewhat) by a first-round matchup with the Magic.

Detroit has ousted Orlando from the playoffs for two seasons running. The Pistons are likewise 3-0 against Orlando this season, in spite of all the injuries and tumult that have followed the trade of Chauncey Billups for Allen Iverson just a week into the season. All of this assumes, of course, that the Pistons don’t slip all the way out of the playoffs after losing Rip Hamilton (groin), Rasheed Wallace (calf), Iverson (back) … and six of their last seven games.

The Magic’s Dwight Howard, meanwhile, made the claim earlier this week that he’s actually hoping to see the Pistons in the first round because “every year they seem to have our number.” He’s been openly discussing how Chauncey’s old team still represents a “mental hump” that Orlando has to “get over.”

Our question, then: Do you believe Dice or Dwight?

Do you think Dice has reason to fear an Orlando reprisal? Or that a Detroit-Orlando rematch would really be “good for us” as Dwight claims?

Us, neither.

VIA ESPN