The Detroit Pistons (14-14) head home to the Palace to face the Indiana Pacers (13-14) in a battle of teams defying expectations for all the wrong reasons this season. The Pacers were projected by some to be a top-three or top-four Eastern Conference team after a series of trades to bring in Jeff Teague and Thad Young, but things haven’t gone as planned.
The new Pacers have struggled with production as in both per-36 minutes and per 100 possessions they’ve seen their worst production levels in years. Part of that is due to the fact that the Pacers simply aren’t as good as they were expected to be, and part of that is due to the fact that neither player has had a teammate at the level of Paul George before.