Detroit — After letting a victory slip away in the final minute on Wednesday against the Los Angeles Clippers, the Pistons didn’t let another one get away. With a revamped starting lineup tilted toward the youth movement, along with several veterans who were resting or injured, the Pistons put a rotation on the floor that accentuated
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For the first time all season, the Pistons’ three first-round draft picks started the game together. And it was sure fun to watch. We’ve seen them all impress at times individually, but seeing it all happen at the same time felt different. Isaiah Stewart was a man among boys even at only 19 years old.
With just a month left on the 2020-21 schedule, there’s no better time than now to wrap up the Tank Commander series. In case you’re new here, this series monitors where the Pistons and their fellow tanking members of the National Basketball Association stand regarding positioning in the draft lottery. Based on FiveThirtyEight’s prediction formula,
All 30 of the NBA’s teams are carrying some sort of “dead money” on their respective books for the 2020/21 season. Dead money is the guaranteed salary paid or owed to a player who is no longer under contract with the team. In some cases, teams are carrying cap hits for players whom they released
The schedule doesn’t spoil us. The Detroit Pistons host tonight Oklahoma City Thunder, visit Washington Wizards tomorrow and host Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday. These teams have a combined winning percentage of 37.2%. It’s the type of schedule you want when fighting for a favorable playoffs seed, but not one you want when you … are
With 17 games left in the regular season, the Detroit Pistons are in an unfamiliar position. They’re one of the three worst teams in the NBA, a feat they haven’t accomplished since 1993 when they landed the third overall pick. That selection, of course, ended up being Grant Hill, who is perhaps the single most
As much as the television screen likes basketball, a few things remain lost in translation. Size, for one. Not that Killian Hayes stands out among the giants on an NBA court. Still, he’s 6 feet 5 with a long reach, especially for his position. Speed, for another. Though Hayes isn’t an outlier here, either. Change of speed, however, is one
Tim Reynolds | Associated Press The NBA said Thursday that the rate of players needing to miss games because of injuries is down from last season, and within the normal range for what the league has seen over the last five seasons. League data shows the player injury rate this season is down about 6%, even
The Bulls are 3-8 since adding five new players in two big trade-deadline moves. Darnell Mayberry of The Athletic assesses the players club’s new additions in an extensive piece. Though All-Star center Nikola Vučević has produced offensively, the team is struggling to cling to the No. 10 seed (and thus a play-in tournament opportunity) in the East. Vučević’s
Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press If everything had followed the blueprint, Killian Hayes would have gone through one of these experiences much earlier in the season. The Detroit Pistons‘ point guard had a large chunk of his rookie year stripped away from him due to a hip injury, but coach Dwane Casey rode
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We hear from Isaiah Stewart after he comes off the bench to post 12 points and 8 rebounds in 22 minutes Wednesday night. #DetroitBasketball
We hear from coach Dwane Casey after Reggie Jackson comes back to haunt the Pistons in a 100-98 loss to the Clippers. #ItsMillerTime
In a season full of impressive tanking by the Detroit Pistons, tonight’s loss takes the cake. Down 11 points with under five minutes left, the LA Clippers went on an 18-5 run to win the game 100-98, aided by a former resident of Little Caesars Arena. Pistons fans surely remember Reggie Jackson’s proclivity for late-game
Detroit — The Pistons had one of their better games this season in Sunday’s loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. They played one of the top teams in the Western Conference down to the final minutes of the fourth quarter, before the Clippers pulled away. The rematch on Wednesday was just as good. The result was
Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press No one could have anticipated that a Detroit Pistons defeat to the mighty Los Angeles Clippers would be categorized as a bad loss. This one wound up being a really bad loss. Facing a depleted Clippers lineup, the Pistons squandered an 11-point lead in the final 5 minutes and
The Los Angeles Clippers will be even more short handed than they were Sunday when these two teams faced off. Stars Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are sitting out tonight’s contest against the Detroit Pistons, and they join the already sidelined Serge Ibaka and Patrick Beverly. Conversely, the Pistons look to have Jearmi Grant and
The tightened schedule the NBA adopted to squeeze 72 games into five months is being criticized amid an increase in injuries, writes Baxter Holmes of ESPN. Holmes talked to several general managers and training staff officials who believe players are more at risk than ever. The torn ACL suffered this week by Nuggets guard Jamal
We took last week off from the Pistons to talk the upcoming NBA Draft, so in case you missed that episode, make sure to check it out here! Now, we’re back talking Detroit Basketball. In this episode, we focus on the French Connection — that is, Killian Hayes’ return and the consistently curious case that
The Detroit Pistons return to Little Caesars Arena having won two of their five games on the recent West Coast road trip. That’s a solid result in a typical year, though it’s less ideal for the Pistons’ lottery odds. With the Orlando Magic within reach of the coveted third-worst record, Detroit has extra motivation to