The Pistons ended Wednesday’s third quarter and opened the fourth with a lineup that in any other season might have been the lineup you would have expected next season’s Motor City Cruise to field.
That’s the G League team that will play on a new arena under construction on the Wayne State campus, if you weren’t aware of them. But there was no such anonymity for the Pistons youth in which to toil on this night when one of the NBA’s presumptive title contenders offered nowhere to hide.
Yes, the Pistons are committed to developing the many young players they flooded their roster with in an off-season that saw 11 new faces added.