The Detroit Pistons have underwhelmed in the first round of the 2018-19 NBA Playoffs against the eastern conference team who held the best regular season record in the league – the Milwaukee Bucks. Saturday night at home in LCA, the Pistons will be allotted another swing at the east coast giants who have a strong MVP candidate in tow, while their best player moonlights as a fan for yet another game of the series.
Without Blake Griffin, the lapse of court production has seemingly carved out certain defeat for Detroit. But, as the cliché goes, “The series doesn’t start until someone wins on the road.