FAST BREAKDOWN
Three quick observations from Saturday night’s 100-87 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center
1-OFFENSIVE DROUGHT – If felt like a game the Pistons should have been in position to win. Through three quarters … the Portland backcourt of Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum, averaging almost 49 points between then, scored just 40 and hit 14 of 35 shots. The Blazers shot just 26 percentfrom the 3-point line. Nobody off of Portland’s bench scored more than nine points. Yet somehow the Pistons trailed by 17 after three quarters and by double digits practically without interruption from the mid-first quarter on, mostly because they never found anything approaching an offensive rhythm.