The Detroit Pistons continue to struggle offensively and ran into a buzzsaw called Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks offense. The Pistons played some tough first-half defense, but Young and the Hawks got untracked in the second half and started to hit shots, run the floor, and finish alley-oops. In short, they made things look easy, eventually topping the overmatched Pistons 122-104.
Young finished with 32 points and nine assists. I don’t want to show you some of those assists because they are downright disrespectful of the Pistons defenders. Google them. You’ll see. A beneficiary of many of those assists was John Collins who ended the night with 22 points and seven rebounds.