DETROIT – Maybe it was the third game in four nights taking a toll. Maybe it was a letdown after the high of smacking Golden State 48 hours earlier. Maybe it was just one of those nights every NBA team has a few times over the course of every 82-game season.
Probably it was a little of all of that and a few other things, like Reggie Bullock’s sprained ankle that KO’d him three minutes into the game and had the ripple effect of messing with the chemistry of a bench unit that had been superb over the five-game win streak.