Let the eulogies begin?

I don't think it's quite hit me yet that the Pistons' season (and recent run of excellence) could end tonight. I guess I feel like Detroit will put it together for one last all-out effort.

Though I don't think it'll be enough to sustain them through the rest of the series, despite this team's record when faced with elimination, because they just looked tapped out on the court.

So I might not be ready to face reality yet, but plenty of others have composed their post-mortems:

• Radio Free Detroit says this pending loss has an all-too-familiar feeling to it, and compares it to the fall of the Bad Boys' championship reign.
• MGoBlog has turned on Flip Saunders.
• Kevin Antcliff has already broken down the Pistons' offseason agenda.
• Big Al says the future for the Pistons has arrived much faster than expected, likely due to all the basketball they've played over the past four years.
• Even if the Pistons win tonight's Game 5, Greg Eno thinks there are too many questions surrounding the team now.
• Luke Walton's Forehead is ready to say bye-bye to Big Ben, but is grateful for the great basketball we've been able to watch in recent years.
• Gregg Henson echoes a thought I've been having: Blame Darko.
  
• Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel thinks Flip should be fired, if/when the Pistons are eliminated. (Via The Wayne Fontes Experience.)
• Detroit Bad Boys isn't playing the post-mortem game. Not yet, anyway.
  

I'm looking for at least one more display of Pistons Pride. I can't imagine Detroit going out like chumps on their home court. But the fate of this series may have already been decided. I'm not sure the Pistons are capable of scoring 90 points anymore, but for one night, I think they'll manage to get just enough points.

Pistons 91, Heat 86.