Detroit — With a short bench and four of their top five scorers out, the Pistons got a nice pick-me-up from a pair of unlikely sources.
Hamidou Diallo had a breakout game, setting a new career high, and Sekou Doumbouya notched a season-high and kept the Pistons within breathing distance.
It wasn’t enough.
The Pistons were within one with just under five minutes remaining, but they made some miscues and couldn’t get stops and fell to the Charlotte Hornets, 102-99, on Tuesday night at Little Caesars Arena.
On the second night of a back-to-back, they needed all the help they could get, with seven players sitting because of rest or injury.