The postseason is over for the Pistons, but the drive through the playoffs continues for the final eight teams in the conference semifinals.
The first round went mostly to form, aside from the shorthanded Los Angeles Clippers’ exit at the hands of the Portland Trail Blazers — which really wasn’t that big an upset, given that it was a No. 5 seed beating a No. 4.
The most striking takeaway from the first round was that the individual games were mostly lopsided. Of the 44 first-round games in both conferences, the average margin of victory was 14.