A week that began with fireworks and an encouraging win finished with two duds on the Pistons’ three-game road trip. After dispatching the Milwaukee Bucks, the Pistons had a lopsided loss on Wednesday at Charlotte.
They finished the road trip with another blowout loss, with a familiar lull in the third quarter, falling to the Memphis Grizzlies, 118-88, on Thursday night at FedExForum.
Unlike their previous games with sluggish starts in the first quarter, the Pistons played the Grizzlies even through the first three-plus minutes, but gave up a 17-0 run, digging themselves into an all-too-familiar deficit.