We should have known before the tip that the Pistons were going to take the L.
The Dallas Mavericks and the Detroit Pistons matched up in Mexico City Thursday night after a few days off, and it took mere minutes before fans were chanting M-V-P as Luka Doncic shot the ball.
Sometimes in neutral site games the offense can take a while to get going, and this game was no different — especially for the Mavericks, who looked like a college team shooting in a dome at the Final Four for the first time.