Special to The Detroit News
Detroit — The Detroit Pistons were 1-7 entering Friday night’s game with the Brooklyn Nets, and not off to the kind of start anticipated with No. 1 overall NBA Draft pick Cade Cunningham and a pair of Big Ten stars being taken in the second round behind him.
Now, expectations weren’t ratcheted up to immediate playoff contention or anything close to that. But respectability was anticipated, and that has yet to come in the early going.
“It’s funny,” Pistons coach Dwane Casey said.