After a poor first quarter in Game 1, the San Antonio Spurs came out in Game 2 and outscored the Pistons by a score of 30-19. When they increased the lead to 16 at the break, there was little doubt that the Spurs would head to Detroit up 2-0.

Manu Ginobili scored 27 points and had seven assists, while Tim Duncan was as effective as ever with 18 points and 11 rebounds.

"Of course you appreciate it, it's beautiful, but it's something none of us should be thinking," Ginobili said of the MVP chants.

"Right now, with the way they're playing and executing, and the contributions they're getting from a lot of people, they've just dominated two ballgames," Detroit coach Larry Brown said. "Hopefully, with our crowd, we'll come out throwing the first punch and being aggressive, and we'll see."

"Nothing's easy. I think they had a poor night shooting tonight. We played some pretty good D, but they also missed some shots. It was very physical, bodies were knocking," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "Obviously Manu made a lot of 3s, Bruce made 3s, and that helps us offensively and made things look easy."