AUBURN HILLS – Markieff and Marcus Morris are not identical twins, but close your eyes – or open them, if you wish – and you can’t tell them apart when they’re speaking. Proteges of the thoroughly unique and beloved – in this town, at least – Rasheed Wallace, with whom they share Philadelphia roots and devotion, the Morris twins exude Hall of Fame-level confidence.
So maybe, conditioned by the bravado of Wallace and the more recent Marcus Morris era of Pistons basketball, you’re inclined to brush off Markieff’s Monday media day proclamation that the Pistons are “Easy, top five in the East.