The Detroit Pistons suffered a house defeat by the hands of the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday evening, as they have been blown out by a rating of 133-107. Their main scorer on the evening was Cade Cunningham, who put up 15 factors and had 5 assists, and completed with a plus/minus of -33 in 23 minutes of play. Detroit got here in as heavy underdogs regardless of being the house workforce attributable to their early season struggles and elongated shedding streak, which is now as much as a whopping 15 video games.
Pistons Have Now Misplaced 15 Video games In A Row
Following tonight’s blowout, the Detroit Pistons will prolong their shedding streak to fifteen video games
They’re now 2-16 on the season pic.twitter.com/AVTsMdeA3m
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) November 30, 2023
The record of points is lengthy. The workforce has the eighth youngest roster within the league, with the whole thing of their standard beginning lineup aged 22 or youthful, making them wildly inexperienced. They make errors, committing probably the most fouls within the league and the second-most turnovers. Their offense ranks twenty seventh and their protection twenty second, and the Pistons are one of many worst groups within the NBA in the case of taking pictures proportion.
And whereas the San Antonio Spurs are at present on an abnormally lengthy shedding streak of 12 video games as of Wednesday, they’re nonetheless properly behind the Pistons in the case of early-season futility. They’ve now misplaced 15 in a row, breaking a tie for the second longest in franchise historical past. The longest {that a} Detroit workforce has ever gone with out successful was 21 video games, however that streak spanned between two seasons in 1980. The present streak is now the longest single-season shedding skid in franchise historical past for the Pistons.
Schedule Is Even Harder In December
The Pistons have misplaced 15 straight video games. pic.twitter.com/XKHkC5vDuQ
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) November 30, 2023
They’ve a methods to go earlier than they get into the rarefied air of shedding 20+ in a row. Solely 13 groups in NBA historical past have gotten to the 20 mark, the latest being when the 2020-22 Houston Rockets misplaced precisely that many. The all-time mark is 28 straight losses, which was set by the “Belief The Course of” Philadelphia 76ers in 2015.
May the Pistons threaten that quantity? It could take an entire lot extra shedding, however given the upcoming schedule, it wouldn’t be an excessive amount of of a shock to see them get previous 20. Of their subsequent 13 video games, 9 of them might be performed towards groups which might be at present in playoff place, together with a 3 sport stretch wherein they’ll face the Bucks as soon as and 76ers twice.
Throughout the 15 sport shedding steak, the Pistons have been outscored by a median of 13 factors per. They’ve misplaced 51 of their final 60 video games relationship again to final season.
