ATLANTA – Blake Griffin made his last three shots of the game – including a banked triple at the buzzer to turn a bitter six-point loss into an equally bitter three-point loss – and still finished 7 of 21. So, sure, there are offensive kinks the Pistons must work out.
But let’s not lose the storyline. The Pistons gave up 118 points to a team that was 22 games under .500 at tipoff.
“Our defense stinks,” Stan Van Gundy said with flawless clarity. “We couldn’t stop the ball at all. We just got broken down, broken down, broken down.