Pistons notes: Darrun Hilliard focused on getting better defensively

AUBURN HILLS -- Sensing a potential mismatch at the start of the second quarter, the Chicago Bulls made it a point of getting the basketball to Dwyane Wade.

Turns out, Darrun Hilliard had done his homework.

Wade turned the basketball over on the first possession, then took an off-balance shot during the next, illustrating his rough night shooting the ball in the Detroit Pistons' 102-91 win Tuesday at the Palace.

While Wade finished 5 of 13, with 19 points and seven assists, those two stops were crucial for Hilliard in his bid to maintain playing time in the Detroit rotation.

"That was my main focus coming into the game," Hilliard said of his defense. "I was watching film on D-Wade and (Isaiah)…