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Away Home Score GT PGT
Los Angeles Lakers Detroit Pistons 133 - 107 Link Link
Washington Wizards Orlando Magic 120 - 139 Link Link
Phoenix Suns Toronto Raptors 105 - 112 Link Link
Utah Jazz Memphis Grizzlies 91 - 105 Link Link
Philadelphia 76ers New Orleans Pelicans 114 - 124 Link Link
Houston Rockets Denver Nuggets 124 - 134 Link Link
Los Angeles Clippers Sacramento Kings 131 - 117 Link Link
  • NBA_MOD@alien.topOPBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Lakers @ Pistons

    133 - 107

    Box Scores: NBA & Yahoo

    Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
    Los Angeles Lakers 38 27 36 32 133
    Detroit Pistons 24 24 28 31 107

    TEAM STATS

    Team PTS FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% OREB TREB AST PF STL TO BLK
    Los Angeles Lakers 133 45-88 51.1% 12-34 35.3% 31-38 81.6% 8 63 28 12 7 12 10
    Detroit Pistons 107 40-97 41.199999999999996% 15-36 41.699999999999996% 12-14 85.7% 10 46 28 31 8 14 3
    • MC-Jdf@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      15 straight L’s. I hate myself for not curbing my enthusiasm for this Pistons team when they started 2-1 lol, thought this really could be a year of stepping forward for them.

      • Kvsav57@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        They honestly look much worse than an expansion team. No idea how long it’ll take for them to pull out of this.

    • RayCashhhh@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Maybe I should make a full post if anyone is interested, but these are my thoughts not only from the game, but the season as a whole having watched the majority of them:

      • Everybody on this team is underqualified with their roles. Cade can be a pretty good player in this league, but he’s being asked to be something that he’s not, and you can tell it’s weighing on him heavily. I like Ausar, but the truth is he probably should be coming off the bench for someone who can stretch the floor and defend a little bit to start off with Cade and Ivey. Beef Stew should be a bench big and nothing more. He’s a good shooter, but teams don’t respect it, and his defense is overrated. I could go on, but in general, everyone is being asked to do too much.
      • I don’t think Detroit got it wrong (for the most part) in terms of their draft picks. Even Killian in a vacuum was a sound choice at the time. The issue is the roster construction outside of those picks. There are like 5-6 guards on the team, while you have Ausar, Bogdan, and Umude as your wings. Two of them can’t shoot, and the other is among the worst defenders in the league. Only Charlotte’s frontcourt depth is worse, and while Duren has a lot of potential, he’s just not there defensively at this stage.
      • This team is mentally defeated. Monty said after the game this team struggles with adversity, and while perhaps he shouldn’t have said it, he’s not wrong. This is easily the worst team many of them have ever been on and you can see it’s taken a toll.
      • Weaver just needs to be fired, and maybe Monty as well. There is no excuse for a team four years into their rebuild to be this bad. Someone said it on Twitter the other day, Weaver took a gamble that what he had on his squad was enough, and that is a bet that has gone horribly wrong.