The highlight of the first half came a minute and half into the first quarter when Isaiah Stewart got his 2nd block on Hassan Whiteside. After that, the Pistons proceeded to not score for the first 3 minutes of the quarter and would be down 13-2 early. Things never got better from there for 18 minutes as the Pistons displayed a poor effort against the best offensive team in the NBA.
Their combination of poor shooting and poor defense would have doomed them against any team in the NBA, but against one of the best, it would be an uphill battle.