This Jazz reception was undoubtedly the most affordable match in several days for the Pistons, in order to break this terrible black series of defeats. For several reasons.
Already, the Detroit players had three days of rest when those of the Jazz had played the day before. In addition, Will Hardy had to do without Lauri Markkanen, Jordan Clarkson, Keyonte George and Talen Horton-Tucker! Finally, the Jazz had only won two away matches since the start of the season.
But nothing works. The Pistons are in tough times and can't get out of it. They were in the game, then broke in the last quarter, weighed down by simple errors like forgotten rebounds, missed open shots or lost balls.
“I want to be careful with my words, because this setback hurts more than most”begins Monty Williams to ESPN. “A team that had played the day before scored 50 points thanks to offensive rebounds and loose balls. It's incredibly difficult to understand how one can be dominated in these categories. »
The Pistons coach refers to the Jazz's 15 offensive rebounds, which gave 23 points on a second chance, and to the 20 lost balls from his players, which allowed them to score 27 points.
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One final figure explains this defeat: 1/10 to 3 pts in the last quarter… “We had an opportunity to win and we weren’t strong enough”regrets Cade Cunningham.
Once again. And this is the 25th time in a row. The record for mediocrity – 26 defeats in a row in the same season – is at 48 minutes, and it will perhaps be against the Nets. The Pistons have never been closer to matching the 2013/14 Sixers and 2010/11 Cavaliers in league history.
Nothingness is getting closer and the spectators at the Little Caesars Arena, dissatisfied, did not hesitate to sing “sell the team!” » at the end of the match.
“We're not as bad a team as the 2-26 record shows. We're not that bad.” However, Cunningham assures. “I think we can turn things around. We can play much better basketball. »
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Party | Pts |
| Cade Cunningham | 27 | 34.6 | 43.4 | 32.5 | 88.1 | 0.5 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 22.2 |
| Bojan Bogdanovic | 8 | 31.4 | 49.6 | 42.4 | 75.7 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 21.1 |
| Jalen Duren | 14 | 28.8 | 63.0 | 0.0 | 57.1 | 3.4 | 7.6 | 10.9 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 3.4 | 12.6 |
| Jaden Ivey | 23 | 24.1 | 45.0 | 27.8 | 78.1 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 11.6 |
| Isaiah Stewart II | 25 | 30.3 | 45.5 | 36.7 | 78.6 | 1.8 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 10.2 |
| Marvin Bagley III | 22 | 18.7 | 57.3 | 20.0 | 83.0 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 4.7 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 10.2 |
| Ausar Thompson | 27 | 27.0 | 46.3 | 15.1 | 69.2 | 2.7 | 5.4 | 8.1 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 10.0 |
| Alex Burks | 20 | 17.9 | 33.1 | 34.4 | 87.5 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 9.3 |
| Killian Hayes | 25 | 26.4 | 42.5 | 30.5 | 70.0 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 9.1 |
| Marcus Sasser | 26 | 17.0 | 48.8 | 42.7 | 89.5 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 7.9 |
| James Wiseman | 17 | 14.3 | 71.6 | 0.0 | 62.5 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 7.1 |
| Kevin Knox | 10 | 15.0 | 47.9 | 38.5 | 80.0 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 6.0 |
| Stanley Umude | 15 | 10.3 | 45.5 | 51.9 | 91.3 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 5.0 |
| Isaiah Livers | 13 | 20.5 | 28.4 | 24.5 | 72.7 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 4.8 |
| Jared Rhoden | 5 | 5.9 | 55.6 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 2.6 |
| Joe Harris | 11 | 12.0 | 32.3 | 29.2 | 50.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.5 |
| Malcolm Cazalon | 1 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
