INDIANAPOLIS – The Pistons will start this season the way they ended the 2018-19 regular season – without Blake Griffin in the lineup.
The difference is they’re better prepared to withstand the absence of their best player – and that’s no accident.
“That’s one of the reasons why went out and got Markieff (Morris), just in case (Griffin) wasn’t available,” Dwane Casey said Wednesday after shootaround at Bakers Life Fieldhouse, where the Pistons play the Pacers in tonight’s opener. “You had to have somebody that could have that type of size, physicality, screening, also spacing the floor, which Markieff can do.