The Detroit Pistons matchup with the Houston Rockets was some pretty ugly basketball. A national TV audience was subjected to two young teams struggling to score for long stretches, lacking in cohesive flow and still figuring a lot of things out. The Pistons won, and that certainly counts for something, but let’s leave that aside for a second. This game was billed as the showdown between No. 1 pick Cade Cunningham and No. 2 pick Jalen Green facing off for the first time.
While the sum of the parts left a lot to be desired, the actual showdown between the two draft picks lived up to the hype with 23 points for Green and 20 for Cunningham on decent efficiency for both.