The Detroit Pistons‘ win over the Orlando Magic on Saturday felt like a bookend, of sorts, for the franchise after an eventful few weeks. They’ve had nine players enter health and safety protocols since Dec. 22, and until this past Monday, were relying on eight G League players to fill in the gaps. Six members
The Detroit Pistons have rarely been in the national spotlight this season. They’re one of two teams that have yet to reach double-digit wins, so that’s probably for the best. Casual NBA fans want to watch stars. Local NBA fans want to watch winning basketball. The Pistons offer neither. It makes sense they’ve only played one
Detroit — After two lopsided losses in Charlotte and Memphis, the Pistons finally had a close game at the end. After leading for most of the game, the Pistons put it away in the final minutes in the fourth quarter, pushing to a 97-92 victory over the Orlando Magic on Saturday night at Little Caesars
We hear from coach Dwane Casey after his Pistons hang on for a 97-92 victory over the Magic on Saturday. #ItsMillerTime
We hear from Saddiq Bey after he puts up 16 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists Saturday. #DetroitBasketball
We hear from Trey Lyles after he scores 16 off the bench in Saturday’s victory over the Magic. #DetroitBasketball
With a little over a minute to play in the fourth quarter, Cade Cunningham lobbed the ball to Hamidou Diallo for a one-handed dunk and a would-be dagger. Somehow, the ball didn’t go through the net. They got it right the second time around, though. With 42 seconds left, Cunningham found Diallo cutting to the
It was never pretty, but the Detroit Pistons outlasted the Orlando Magic to snap a two-game skid and come away with a 97-92 victory Saturday night in Little Caesars Arena. You could certainly tell two of the worst teams were playing against each other as the best you could say for either squad is that
Coming off a disheartening back-to-back that saw the Detroit Pistons lose all momentum they gained from their impressive victory against the Bucks, the Pistons look to right the ship against a fellow Eastern Conference bottom-dweller in the Orlando Magic. Detroit took some heat from the national media this week, as Charles Barkley and TNT’s “Inside
Detroit — For the first time in a couple of weeks, the Pistons’ starting group looked somewhat normal again. Isaiah Stewart was back in the lineup at center, with Cade Cunningham and Killian Hayes in the backcourt. That allowed Trey Lyles, who had been substituting as a center, to return to the second unit, a
The Detroit Pistons have largely toiled in obscurity during one of their worst seasons in franchise history, but when you lose by 40 on a night when there are only four games on the schedule people are bound to take notice. And boy did the crew at Inside the NBA on TNT take notice of
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — During their upset of the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday, it didn’t appear the Detroit Pistons were feeling any aftereffects from having multiple players in the NBA’s health and safety protocols. Six of the eight players who missed time in the final week of December — Cade Cunningham, Killian Hayes, Trey Lyles, Josh
A week that began with fireworks and an encouraging win finished with two duds on the Pistons’ three-game road trip. After dispatching the Milwaukee Bucks, the Pistons had a lopsided loss on Wednesday at Charlotte. They finished the road trip with another blowout loss, with a familiar lull in the third quarter, falling to the
On episode 81 of the Motor City Hoops podcast I bring you my instant recap and reactions to the Pistons Thursday night game vs the Grizzlies. I will give my overall outlook on the game and a rundown of what we saw from the Pistons. I will also give my biggest takeaway, player of the
We hear from coach Dwane Casey after his Pistons suffer a 118-88 setback in Memphis on Thursday. #ItsMillerTime
We hear from Isaiah Stewart, who puts up six points and eight rebounds after making his return from COVID protocol in Thursday’s loss to the Grizzlies. #DetroitBasketball
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After putting together their best effort of the season in a win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday, the Detroit Pistons have played two of their worst games on the season, starting with Wednesday’s 140-111 loss to the Charlotte Hornets. Thursday didn’t go much better. The Memphis Grizzlies built a double-digit lead
Hamidou Diallo tied the game between the Detroit Pistons and Memphis Grizzlies three minutes into the contest. Then Memphis ripped off 17 straight points and the game was over nearly as soon as it started. The first-quarter run was fueled by a slew of lazy drives that resulted in turnover on pass attempts through a
Isaiah Stewart is back … probably. The Detroit Pistons big man has been cleared from the reconditioning program that followed his removal from health and safety protocols. This means it is likely that Stewart is available to play tonight against the Memphis Grizzlies, and it means that the Pistons once again have their starting center.
January 6th 2022 at 5:00pm CST by Dana Gauruder Rudy Gobert has entered the league’s health and safety protocols. He returned two rapid negative tests on Thursday but his PCR test overnight came back positive, according to Tony Jones of The Athletic (Twitter links). Of course, the Jazz center’s COVID-19 positive in March 2020 led to