No it’s not April Fool’s day, you’re reading this correctly. After 18 straight losses to the Chicago Bulls, the Pistons finally took a game from them at the Palace of Auburn Hills Sunday night 99-85.
Key Points:
- I don’t care if the game didn’t matter much and the Bulls were stacked with injuries. This team and it’s fans needed to get that monkey off their back.
- Brandon Knight has been red-hot for Detroit. Knight let the Pistons with 20 points, 12 of them coming in the third quarter.
- Credit the Bench for really helping out in this one. The starters fell behind early, but a much-needed boost from the Pistons bench helped Detroit to a victory.
- Andre with 10 boards and three points in 20 minutes on the floor.
- No Deng for the Bulls
- How about the play of Jonas Jerbko lately. This is the Jonas I remember from his rookie season. He doesn’t back down and he plays 100% it his team is up 30 or down 30. Jonas finished the game with 17 points, 9 boards and a steal in 27 very productive minutes on the floor.
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- Never liked Carlos Boozer and still don’t, but it was nice to see Jonas Jerebko hold his own against him. Boozer led the Bulls with 21.
- Rodney Stuckey with another start and another productive game. Rodney scored 14 for Detroit, with five assists in 35 minutes on the floor.
- Jose Calderon is still being bothered with his right triceps injury and sat out another game. It will be interesting if Detroit gets him to stay this offseason.
- Tolerate him or hate him, Charlie V is just like that. He finished with a dozen points in 14:51 minutes on the floor.
- Highlights via NBA.com
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- Khris Middleton doing his part to play a bigger role on this team next season. He finished with 10.
- Bynum was back after the hand injury. Soak it in, you may not see him in a Pistons uniform after this season. In fact I’m pretty sure no one is safe except Andre Drummond. I’d like to think they’d keep Greg, but if a blockbuster is put on the table he’s pretty good bait.
- Next up, the Cavs in Cleveland on Wednesday.
Didn’t see the game, but highlights look good. Bottom line, this team underacheived this season. with this talent they should have made the playoffs at the minimum.
ahah hate him or tolerate him, you are pretty sure nobody loves Charlie V, well maybe his mom was watching the game
ok i know itr might be off topic but this video really pisses me off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1–j4fi4U
i dont like brandon and i dont think i will but on thing i wontdeny is his work and fight for jersey wich is obvious and i ll never say another thing against him so maker of this video ty very much moron for makin me see some stuff and if someone tought brandon not to go around the court at times like fly with no head pistons might have some more benefits from him
bk7 just keep on fightin, i personally cos of this video as a pistons fan am willng to support u for one more year in pistons jersey so cmon back me (and all of us pistons fans hopefully) up and become our first choice sg cose i dont think u ll be useful as pg
JJ is plus 52 over the last 4 games. i know a lot of headlines over frank in his role, but i would like him to stay give him a proper chance to prove himself.