At some point during the second half, when it looked like the Cavs might actually steal Game 1 in Detroit, someone — probably a fan, maybe a coach, definitely not a teammate — yelled out “Come on, Chauncey! Heat it up!” Or maybe it was “Eat him up!” Either way, C-Billups proceeded to live up to the nickname, knocking down some big shots in the fourth to shake off an overall bad game (13 pts, 5 asts, 7 turnovers) and lift Detroit to the win … The thing with most championship-caliber teams is that even when they’re behind on the scoreboard and not playing particularly well, you know they’re gonna make that big run, and they always make it. Sometimes it isn’t enough to get the W, but it always comes nonetheless. The Pistons fit that category. So do the Spurs. You could even say the same for the Suns. The Jazz? Not so much … On one of Billups’ late threes, Anderson Varaejo walked right up to Chauncey, looked at him holding the ball, then inexplicably walked away and left him open for the shot. This happened right in front of the Cavs bench, and of course caused Mike Brown to flip out. But why was Brown screaming at Sasha Pavlovic? Is AV too fragile to handle some yelling and Sasha was just the closest guy? That was the weirdest moment of the night … The Pistons did exactly what they’re supposed to do against LeBron (10 pts, 10 rebs, 9 asts, 4 stls): keep him out of the lane and make him settle for jump shots — basically, the Vince Carter Defense. LeBron looked rattled most of the night and didn’t make any trips to the line. When Cleveland was down to their final two possessions, it looked like he didn’t even want to shoot. On the first one, LeBron passively waved the ball around on the block until Zydrunas Ilgauskas got open (Z missed the jumper). On the last possession, ‘Bron had a step on Tayshaun Prince and could have went up for a layup, but he kicked it out to Donyell Marshall and seemed to have no intentions on going for a bucket. Donyell missed the wide-open trey. The one shot ‘Bron did take in crunch time hit the side of the backboard. Long story short, it’s not a good look when Marv Albert is calling out your franchise superstar for always biting his nails in crunch time … After the game, Magic Johnson was basically like, “Stop with the ‘LeBron is young’ thing.” You know what Magic is thinking: I put up 42, 15 and 7 as a ROOKIE in the Finals on the road while PLAYING CENTER! Don’t give me that “He’s young” crap! … In case you’re wondering, Donyell still can dunk. But if you ask us again this same time next year, we can’t guarantee that’ll still be the case … Rip Hamilton (24 pts) is gonna do TV analysis someday and it’s gonna be weird looking at him without a headband and facemask. Something else to think about: if Rip gets into the Hall of Fame, will his bust have the headband and mask? Will it have cornrows or his current haircut? … Neither team cracked 80 points. Buckle up for a burn-burner … Either Marv Albert is a master at subtle sarcasm, or he’s gotten overly generous with the compliments lately. Last night he called one of Varaejo’s jump hooks “beautiful.” A few minutes later on the replay you could see AV released it like he was bowling … After Billups turned it over trying a one-hand pass off the dribble that Prince didn’t see coming, the announcers said only three people have made the pass regularly and been successful: Magic, John Stockton and Steve Nash. Could’ve put Jason Kidd in there, too … Big Z was the best player on the Cavs last night. He was playing volleyball near the rim, tipping in everything, and he stuck some jumpers in the fourth. He finished with 22 points and 13 boards … Last week we told you about John Mellencamp claiming to have smoked with Larry Bird and Kevin McHale back in the day. McHale defended himself in a Minnesota newspaper: “First of all, other than smoking a cigar or a cigarette or something, I’ve never smoked marijuana with Larry Bird or John Mellencamp,” McHale said. “Someone called and said, ‘I heard you’re smoking marijuana with Mellencamp.’ That’s as ludicrous as I’ve ever heard anything. Mellencamp smokes cigarettes. Bird will have the occasional cigarette. I don’t even remember. We might have had a cigar sitting around.” I don’t even remember? Hmmmm … The entire Dime Crew will be out in NJ for the Draft Lottery tonight. Obviously we’ll hit with everything that goes down afterwards … We’re out like excuses …