Exciting Basketball.
Draining Threes.
Defensive Intensity.
Winning Games.
This is the Detroit Pistons. This is Detroit Basketball. Or at least it was, at the beginning of this season. And it seems to be again in the seven games since the blockbuster trade with the Los Angeles Clippers for superstar Blake Griffin.
The quality of basketball, and the excitement among Pistons fandom at the beginning of the season was sparked by, in my opinion, the defense of Avery Bradley.
The Pistons, however, hit a rough patch of games in the beginning of December and then lost their starting point guard, Reggie Jackson, to injury on December 26th.