After the glorious 2-14-off between the Washington Wizards and Detroit Pistons culminated in a blowout loss at home for the Pistons, Detroit’s remaining schedule once again comes in to the big picture as the Pistons upcoming schedule have the 6th highest remaining SOS (Strength of schedule) for the remainder of the 2023/24 season.
To illustrate this, here is the Pistons upcoming schedule, from today up to December 31st (Technically the 30th is their last game for 2023 but I digress):
2x Pacers
1x Lakers
2x 76ers
2x Nets
1x Jazz
1x Cavs
1x Knicks
1x Bucks
1x Hawks
1x Celtics
1x Raptors
Aside from the Jazz - who hold more than twice the amount of wins as Motor City’s team - there isn’t an obvious team to point to for the Pistons to grab an easy win amongst the upcoming 14 games given the rest of the teams are playoff teams or play-in teams aiming to make them. Things won’t get any easier in January as their first game in 2024 is against a competitive Rockets team.
In this doomsday scenario, where the Pistons lose all of the remaining games in the calendar year, they would definitively hold the worst consecutive losing streak for a single NBA season; the current record holder is technically the Process 76ers losing 28 games but this streak occurred over 2 seasons whereas the single longest consecutive losing streak across a single season for an NBA team is the post-LeBron Cavs and the 2014 76ers that kicked off The Process™.
The Detroit Pistons are currently on a 14 game losing streak, with a record of 2-15. They have won less games in the calendar year of 2023 (9) than the city’s NFL team, the Lions (10).
They play the Lakers tomorrow…I could see them winning against us tbh
There isn’t an easy game for us in the whole league
You could probably still beat us.
How the fuck are you THIS bad.
Unironically I’ll give them a chance against the Lakers cause every team’s eyes light up when facing them lol
They have a lot of interesting young talent, but they look clueless as to how to develop it.
I’m sure they’ll catch a team or 2 slipping before the end of the year, but man, they look awful.
At least Ivey is starting now and he looked good tonight (only Piston postive plus/minus). I expect they will win 3 games by end of the year.
Two generational busts on the same roster in Wiseman and Cade. Jinkies.
They’re going to beat the Celtics and the Lakers in random but convincing fashion and then take fat Ls everywhere else.
It’s crazy to read this because I was thinking the same thing😂
Paging /u/temporary-dust-865 lol
He’s in here! A pretty funny character
They tryna get Bronny?
Well to be fair, they’ve been close but can’t close out. Cade needs to be more efficient, though.
He also has to take the most contested looks bc there’s no spacing around him so naturally that will affect his efficiency. Kenny Beecham said Cade has to take the 2nd toughest shots in the league (shot quality)
NBA Twitter wanted me to think the pistons tank was over bc Jalen Duren averages like 14 rebounds in the first 5 games
Rockets fan here. I am sorry but they need to let go of Silas.
They could also go lossless
Put some respect on 11-12 Bobcats’ name with the ‘worst team’ list! Sure it is a Shortened season but technically they are the worst :D