The Pistons have shot 54.7 percent from the field, to Houston’s 31.3. “But what good does it do for me to stay up all night and analyze it and try to figure out how to make it different when we don’t have Kevin Durant, we don’t have Russell Westbrook (and) we don’t have LeBron James?”.
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On Wednesday night, the Islanders had a huge win against the Philadelphia Flyers at the Barclays Center.
“I felt actual good as we speak”, Ellington stated of his seasonal excessive (earlier excessive for the yr was six factors).
In a 4-13 start, the Nets’ attitude has led to positive chemistry.
Perhaps it was the truth that it was Ellington’s 28th birthday that had one thing to do together with his upbeat strategy. My confidence was up.
Wayne Ellington and Thaddeus Young sparked the revival, as the Nets won 87-83 at Barclays Center.
The Nets trailed 83-81 with 59 seconds left in the game when Jarrett Jack buried a midrange jumper from the left wing to tie the game. “They were sort of feeling sorry for themselves, so to just have the fortitude to stick with it because it could have been easy to just let go and let them get up by 15 points”.
“Collectively, we know that we can stay in ballgames. We’ve got to find a better flow for the offense”. “Then we made shots”. Detroit dropped to 8-9 with their fourth loss in five games.
While it’s certainly better than last season’s 5-23 start, the Pistons’ first quarter of the season has been something of a roller-coaster ride. “We know how each of us likes to play and how we have high expectations from ourselves and for our team, so we’re trying to be a good foundation and example for all the guys”. “Tonight, we were very inconsistent and we had maybe an eight or nine-minute stretch of playing well, and we come away with a win”.
Hollins stated that the National Basketball Association is only a unusual league.
“It’s interesting how the league is”, Hollins said.
After a two day layoff, Brooklyn went up against last year’s Eastern Conference Champions, the Cleveland Cavaliers. Final week we performed nicely in Oakland (towards Golden State) and did not win. Most of their losses have been in tight games that they have been unable to finish, so it is a positive sign to see them win against a quality opponent in this fashion. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had 21 points and seven rebounds.
Aron Baynes and Stanley Johnson have provided critical contributions off the Pistons’ bench.
The Pistons took control of the game midway through the second quarter and held a 41-35 halftime lead, thanks to eight different Detroit players making their way into the scorebook.
The 64 points mark the Pistons’ highest-scoring first half of the season.
NOTES: The Pistons have been as soon as once more with out G (torn left Achilles tendon) and G (proper foot fracture). The other is Pelicans PF. …
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Suns: The Suns snapped a four-game losing streak Sunday, beating the Toronto Raptors 107-102. The Pistons, meanwhile, are 1-6 at the betting window in their last seven road games and 1-4 ATS in their last five games after allowing 100 points or more in their previous contest.
