Reaction to the Pistons’ turnaround isn’t hard to find as Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul think-pieces and other hard-hitting analysis can be found on every internet street corner. “What are they doing differently?” is a common theme, but, it’s not what they’re doing that’s giving the Pistons new life, it’s how they’re doing it.
If it seems like an oversimplification to attribute Detroit’s offensive explosion to good old-fashioned and gosh-darn execution, well, that’s the point. None of what they put on film is difficult to grasp as ball-reversals, pick-and-rolls and DHOs are far from high-level concepts.