DETROIT – You can bet Dwane Casey noticed the score out of Cleveland from Saturday night when the Houston Rockets got zapped by the 3-14 Cleveland Cavaliers. The Pistons and Rockets went to overtime on Friday night, both emptying the gas tank in a game fraught with playoff atmosphere, and Houston paid the price the next time out.
“All we can do to professional players is indicate how dangerous the team is,” Casey said before the Pistons hosted the 4-14 Phoenix Suns on Sunday afternoon – the early tipoffs that haven’t been kind to them this season. One of Phoenix’s wins came on that same Friday night when they knocked off Milwaukee, which had been 14-4.