The Chicago Bulls’ recent loss to the Detroit Pistons certainly should not have been headline-worthy news. After all, Detroit came into the matchup on a seven-game winning streak. However, this was nowhere near the same Pistons team responsible for that success. It was a roster so impacted by injuries that it barely even resembled an NBA rotation.
Detroit played without Cade Cunningham, Jalen Duren, Tobias Harris, Jaden Ivey, Isaiah Stewart, Ausar Thompson, and Marcus Sasser. Seven significant rotation players sidelined due to injury. Despite that, their second and third units had no trouble running laps around Chicago from start to finish.