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The Detroit Pistons are doing great job with their rookies this year. Isaiah Stewart, taken with the 16th pick, is already a fan favorite and now looks like a foundational piece. Saddiq Bey, taken with 19th pick, already has an Eastern Conference Player of the Week honor, and he’s already schooling his former offseason workout

The Detroit Pistons outhustled, outmuscled and outplayed the Sacramento Kings for the majority of the 48 minutes Thursday night in a strong 113-101 victory. After the opening quarter that saw Detroit up four, it was largely all Pistons from then on. Detroit took control with a 35-21 spanking of the Kings in the second quarter.

Game Vitals: When: Thursday, April 8, 2021, 10 p.m. ESTWhere: Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, CaliforniaWatch: Bally Sports Detroit+, NBA League PassOdds: Pistons +7 Projected Lineups: Detroit Pistons (15-36):Saben Lee, Wayne Ellington, Josh Jackson, Saddiq Bey, Mason Plumlee Sacramento Kings (22-29):De’Aaron Fox, Tyrese Haliburton, Buddy Hield, Harrison Barnes, Richaun Holmes Pregame Reading: Fearless Leader Sean Corp

It seems like it’s been forever since Detroit played a close, competitive game. The Pistons have either been on the giving or receiving end of lopsided margins the past couple of weeks. Fans are already finding it harder and harder to stick through with this season as it enters the latter stages, so a competitive

Lazarus Jackson (@lazchance) goes solo to talk about the Killian Hayes – Hamidou Diallo backcourt, Jalen Suggs and Cade Cunningham as fits on the Pistons, and Detroit’s options in the second round of the 2021 NBA Draft. That, in turn, became a discussion about force multiplication, doing the math on getting to 25 points a

The Detroit Pistons signed forward Tyler cook to a multi-year contract, the team announced, after the athletic big man shined during recent auditions on a pair of 10-day deals. The deal is a guarantee for the rest of this season with a team-option for next season, according to Rod Beard of the Detroit News. The

Now that the NCAA tournament has come and gone, we figured it’d be a great time to preview the upcoming NBA draft! Since Matt and I aren’t draft gurus ourselves, we’d decided to ask for some backup, so we brought on Adam Spinella. Spinella is the Assistant Men’s Basketball coach at Dickinson College, and currently

The Detroit Pistons couldn’t match the Denver Nuggets offensive onslaught of 37 points in the second quarter, and never recovered, falling 134-119. Jamal Murray was a late scratch for the Nuggets, but it hardly mattered. The Nuggets depth is one of their calling cards, not to mention their star power with MVP candidate Nikola Jokic.

The Detroit Pistons face one of the league’s best teams on the road in high altitude on the second night of a back-to-back. This one could get ugly. To make matters even worse, the Pistons will be without rookie point guard Killian Hayes, who is sitting out as a precaution as the team works him

When Blake Griffin was shut down by the Detroit Pistons, the offense from the starting lineup took a hit. While Griffin was far from the offensive force he was years ago, he was still very good at orchestrating a big chunk of the team’s strong-side offense. Other starters could play off of this to their

Losing nearly 3,000 minutes out of your rotation would be difficult for any team, and the Denver Nuggets certainly needed an adjustment period after Jerami Grant and Mason Plumlee bolted a Western Conference Finals team for a rebuilding situation (and starting roles) in Detroit. It seems like they’ve figured it all out, though, after the

If the Detroit Pistons were attempting to aid the tank by resting Mason Plumlee and Wayne Ellington against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the plan failed miserably. Isaiah Stewart took Plumlee’s place in the starting lineup and was active on both ends of the floor. The rookie center blocked four shots in the first quarter and

The Detroit Pistons are desperate to wash the stink off after a season-worst showing against the New York Knicks in a 125-81 loss on Saturday. The Knicks were lighting the Pistons up from 3 and Detroit showed very little resistance on either end of the floor. It wasn’t exactly an auspicious return for rookie Killian

It’s been a few weeks now since the under-the-radar deadline-adjacent trade that saw the Detroit Pistons send Svi Mykhailiuk and a second-round pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Hamidou Diallo. In truth, it seems the fans of both franchises are pretty happy with how things have turned out as the players are providing an

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week’s episode we talk about your 14-35 Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I talk with former host of Locked on Pistons and current PlayMichigan.com writer Matt Schoch about Killian Hayes’ return, Saddiq Bey hitting the rookie wall, and a term I just

In a long NBA season, there’s some nights where things just aren’t work. Those moments are more common for this year’s Detroit Pistons than most teams, but that sense has never came earlier than it did tonight. A little more than three minutes into the game, the New York Knicks were up 14-0 and Dwane

Game Vitals: When: Saturday, April 3, 2021, 8:00 p.m. ESTWhere: Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MIWatch: Bally Sports Detroit, NBA League PassOdds: Det +1.5 Projected lineups: Detroit Pistons (14-34): Saben Lee, Josh Jackson, Saddiq Bey, Jerami Grant, Mason Plumlee New York Knicks (24-25):Elfrid Payton, Reggie Bullock, R.J. Barrett, Julius Randle, Nerlens Noel Pregame Reading: At the

When the Detroit Pistons announced Blake Griffin was sitting until he and the team could agree to a resolution for his departure, it shook up the nature of the team’s rotations and how to move forward. Dwane Casey has struggled to find a consistent, successful starting lineup since that time. The most common iteration has

New York has Detroit’s number this year. During the season, the Knicks have won two games the teams played so far. But they’ll be on a SEGABABA, and the good guys will have additional enforcement in already strong backcourt as Killian Hayes will make his long awaited comeback from injury. So… Game Vitals When: Saturday,

The report comes via The Athletic’s own James Edwards III: Per sources, the plan is for #Pistons rookie Killian Hayes to return for tomorrow’s game against the Knicks. The No. 7 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft has been out since January with a hip injury. — James Edwards III (@JLEdwardsIII) April 2, 2021