PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia 76ers didn’t learn much over the last 11 days when it comes to defending Blake Griffin, but his potency this time around was overcome by a lethal combination of factors outside of his control.
Griffin scored 50 points in an overtime win over the 76ers last week and came back to hit them with 38 in the rematch. But all that did was get the Pistons close after a horrific start to a game that would have had to have half as many fouls called to get the pace up to the level of “choppy.