DETROIT – There are always a handful of games as March turns to April that haunt teams on the wrong side of the thin line between playoff qualifiers and franchises headed for the lottery.
If that’s where the Pistons find themselves in a few months, Saturday’s 110-105 loss to Utah is certain to be among them.
After dominating the Jazz to lead 31-13 after a quarter and after protecting the basketball commendably in the first half, the Pistons spit it up 14 times in the second half. Four of them came in a two-minute span midway through the fourth quarter to spark a 10-0 Utah run that saw the Pistons’ deficit explode from one to 11.