The Detroit Pistons have been a bad team for every month of this interminable, mostly miserable season. However, when the team decided to shut down veterans like Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks, the losing really went into overdrive.
The Pistons have precisely one win in its past 19 games. For those who want to reminisce about the good old days, that was the second of consecutive games against the Indiana Pacers and saw Detroit win by 20 in front of an energetic Little Caesars Arena crowd.
Neither Jaden Ivey nor Bennedict Mathurin suited up for that game, and the teams were led by 22 points from Cory Joseph and 20 points from Jordan Nwora, respectively, with both players coming off the bench for their respective teams.