FAST BREAKDOWN
Three quick observations from Saturday night’s 119-107 loss to the Chicago Bulls at Little Caesars Arena
RUNNING OF THE BULLS – Allowing 40-point quarters is not conducive to winning basketball as it turns out. The Pistons hadn’t given up any such quarters until this week and now they’ve allowed three different opponents to do so in the past four games. Washington on Monday in the first quarter, Toronto on Wednesday in the second quarter and Chicago on Saturday in the third all scored at least 40 points. The Bulls hit 14 of 18 shots and 6 of 8 triples in the third quarter, outscoring the Pistons 40-30, to take a four-point lead – and it took two Markieff Morris triples in the last 10 seconds of the quarter to whittle a 10-point deficit to four.