After knocking off a depleted bad team in the Brooklyn Nets in the home opener, the Pistons will get another shorthanded bad team for their first road contest.
In fact, looking ahead at their first 12 games of the season, only five of those are against teams actually trying to win this season. Well, maybe six, but the Hornets shouldn’t count. They’re not very good at this whole trying to win thing.
Lauri Markkanen is out for the first couple of months of the season with an elbow injury and Kris Dunn is a question mark as he is on paternity leave.