The other major factors in this game were rebounding, turnovers, and free throws. The Pistons got beat up on the glass by a far inferior rebounding team. They can’t let that happen. They should have been able to salvage that because the Grizzlies played an uncharacteristically sloppy game and threw away the ball many times even without defensive pressure. But the calls really hurt Detroit. Apart from a really iffy foul that sent Steve Blake to the line at the end of the third quarter, most of the 50/50 calls and even some pretty obviously wrong ones went the other way–even though you wouldn’t know it based on Memphis shooting just 13 free throws.
Pistons fall to Grizzlies on ridiculous Barnes heave
