Auburn Hills — Practice took on a different feel for the Pistons Sunday afternoon as Stan Van Gundy decided to loosen up the reins, allowing his team to go five-on-five and up and down the floor.
The thought process was the Pistons, who are mired in a slump in which they’ve lost six of their last seven games and find themselves on the outside looking in when it comes to the Eastern Conference playoff picture, need to play more freely and stop letting every little thing that goes wrong affect their effort.
“We’re at that point in the year where we’ve hit a bit of a wall,” Van Gundy said.