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The Pistons are blaring hip-hop music in their locker room on an iPod, attached to a Bose speaker.

The white boards in the team locker rooms are off-limits, but without giving away any strategy, the word “SIMPLICITY” is written in large red letters on Detroit’s white board.

  • Flip Saunders would rather his team hadn’t had such a long layoff.

    “A team coming off seven games, they’re going to be competitively honed in,” said Saunders. “Because only two days ago they were playing a seventh game. We’ve been off for a while. It’s going to take us a little bit of time to get the competitive juices flowing. But we’ll get there.”

    Another thing that may help the Celtics?

    “To Boston’s credit, they played Cleveland, who is a very physical defensive team,” said Saunders. “I think that’s how we play. So they’re probably prepared to play that.”

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