DETROIT – Bah humbug. The Pistons stuffed a lump of coal in their Christmas stockings. Santa moved them to the naughty list.
Any Christmas clichés we might be missing?
Because we could trot out the basketball clichés if that makes you feel any better about the 98-95 loss to the Atlanta Hawks, who carried an 8-23 record into Sunday’s matinee and ended it by tagging the Pistons with a losing record that surely will sit like a stone in their stomachs over the holiday break.
“We were just bad through three quarters and put ourselves in a hole and then didn’t get it done at the end,” Blake Griffin said, summing it up pretty concisely.