Auburn Hills — Stan Van Gundy can do the math. He can read the calendar. And before you bother to check your own watch, he’ll tell you what time it is for his team, rattling off the schedule that awaits the Pistons as they come out of the All-Star break Friday at home against the Boston Celtics.
“We come back and play six games in nine days, nine in 15 days, and 11 of our first 15 are on the road,” Van Gundy said, not that he’s counting on any sympathy, mind you.
He also has three new players in his nine- or 10-man rotation, one starter who’s still weeks away from returning from a severe ankle injury suffered in late December, and by his own rough estimate, “a million ideas” about how to handle all this late-season roster upheaval.