It was hard to imagine a world in which the Detroit Pistons’ start to the season got any worse.
Then Isaiah Stewart injured his toe against the Raptors on Monday.
With the team’s best defender and rebounder on the shelf for the next month, it’s not going to be easy for the Pistons to right their already-tilting ship. Making matters worse, though, is what’s on tap over the next two weeks — the dreaded west-coast swing.
Bad teams have bad records. Bad teams almost always have terrible road records. But the Pistons, a bad team, have been horrible on these kinds of west-coast trips.