While they went to beat the Pacers in Indiana, the Pistons fell at home to the Sixers the next day. But JB Bickerstaff surely sensed this setback coming upstream…
“Our guys were exhausted” he noticedrecalling the conditions of the return flight, delayed due to a snowstorm in Indianapolis. “We stayed on the runway until 2:30 or 3:00 in the morning, and we returned home at 4:30 with the snowstorm. It was a complicated day for the guys. »
Cade Cunningham absent at the last minute, the Pistons “had no energy and that’s understandable” notes the coach, while the Sixers had not played since Wednesday.
Moreover, the technician would like the NBA to look into back-to-backs when they involve an NBA Cup match on the first night. Because with the history of the “point average”, clubs generally play harder, and longer, during mid-season tournament matches, and the matches that follow can therefore be difficult.
On the league side, we wanted to avoid putting NBA Cup matches on the second night of the back-to-backs, so that everyone was fresh, but we did not limit these matches for the first evening back-to-backs.
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Party | Pts |
| Cade Cunningham | 18 | 36.2 | 44.3 | 37.5 | 80.8 | 1.1 | 6.1 | 7.2 | 9.0 | 4.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 23.5 |
| Jaden Ivey | 21 | 30.9 | 45.2 | 38.3 | 72.9 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 18.4 |
| Malik Beasley | 22 | 28.8 | 43.7 | 39.9 | 71.0 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 15.9 |
| Tobias Harris | 21 | 32.5 | 44.0 | 31.1 | 80.0 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 13.4 |
| Tim Hardaway Jr. | 19 | 27.5 | 39.7 | 35.6 | 88.2 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 9.8 |
| Jalen Duren | 20 | 24.0 | 69.6 | 0.0 | 57.6 | 3.1 | 6.5 | 9.6 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 8.8 |
| Simone Fontecchio | 20 | 18.7 | 39.3 | 34.2 | 78.6 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 6.6 |
| Marcus Sasser | 14 | 13.3 | 54.5 | 42.3 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 6.4 |
| Isaiah Stewart II | 22 | 21.8 | 55.1 | 21.1 | 87.1 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 6.4 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 6.3 |
| Ron Holland | 22 | 15.9 | 41.9 | 15.2 | 80.8 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 5.7 |
| Ausar Thompson | 4 | 15.5 | 34.8 | 33.3 | 42.9 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 5.5 |
| Wendell Moore, Jr. | 10 | 15.8 | 55.9 | 33.3 | 91.7 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 5.2 |
| Alondes Williams | 1 | 3.7 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| Paul Reed, Jr. | 10 | 10.4 | 56.3 | 37.5 | 81.8 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 4.8 |
| Cole Swider | 2 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Danis Jenkins | 2 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
