Detroit — Slowly but surely, the Pistons are getting closer to being back whole.
Sort of.
Two of their major pieces, Blake Griffin and Derrick Rose, played in the second games of a back-to-back for the first time this season, against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night. That wasn’t the case in the first meeting against the Bucks, on Nov. 23, also against the Bucks, on a back-to-back.
It’s a small thing, but it’s showing that the Pistons are easing up on the restrictions for their star players, after being overly conservative early in the season, with both Rose and Griffin dealing with injuries.