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Beard: Slow start raises concern Pistons can't get over the hump

The Pistons have lost four straight and are reeling in the early part of an injury-riddled season. Rod Beard, The Detroit News

Detroit — In the 1997 hit movie, “As Good As It Gets,” Jack Nicholson’s character, Melvin Udall, has obsessive-compulsive disorder and is trying to go through techniques with his therapist to improve his condition.

He shows up unannounced to try to get an appointment, but his therapist refuses to see him.

Frustrated, Udall wanders into the waiting room and rhetorically asks the other patients: “What if this is as good as it gets?