DETROIT – You don’t usually hear a coach who’s spent any meaningful time in the NBA talk about “must wins” until the season’s final few weeks when playoff spots are at stake – let alone before the calendar flips to the new year – but Dwane Casey flirted with as much.
“I will commend our guys on this. It was one of those ‘must wins’ for morale, for steadying the ship, and guys came in and got it done,” he said after the Pistons snapped a two-game losing streak with a 106-95 win over Washington. “It wasn’t pretty and there were a lot of teaching moments in that fourth quarter.