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Pistons at Lakers final score: Pistons close road trip with tight win in LA, 102-97

The Pistons and Lakers entered tonight’s game each with three game losing streaks. The two teams had lost their last two games by a combined 109 points.

It was a tight game for the most part, but it was less an exercise in good, competitive basketball and more of a “which team can fail less” performance.

Neither team played much in the way of defense in the first half, heading to the locker room with a 59-57 Pistons lead. But neither team could find the bottom of the hoop in the third quarter, but more of due to some inept offense rather than sterling defense.