FAST BREAKDOWN
Three quick observations from Sunday night’s 106-99 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center
A GOOD FIGHT – Dwane Casey said before the game – with the Pistons playing their fifth of a six-game road trip and their third game in four nights, on a back to back – that the one thing the Pistons couldn’t afford was to not play hard. It seemed to be asking a lot of a team missing four key players. And when the Pistons fell behind 15-2, it would have been easy to go through the motions and take their lumps in a game a Pistons team at full strength and not at a rest disadvantage wouldn’t have been expected to win.