If at the start of last year’s NBA season you told me that Blake Griffin would play over 70 games, have a career year, Andre Drummond would lead the league in rebounds, and the Pistons signed a player on the buyout market, then I’d expect that the Pistons to win their first round matchup or at least make it respectable.
Obviously, that didn’t happen as the Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo dismantled the Pistons and embarrassed the entire state of Michigan. The Pistons backed into the playoffs after squandering the sixth and seventh seeds away and nearly losing the eighth seed.