Good teams find ways to win.
Bad teams find ways to lose.
The Detroit Pistons are getting pretty good at the finding ways to lose thing.
For three quarters, they looked like a team ready to pull another one of their weird upsets in Dallas against the Mavericks. The shots were falling, the defense, overall, wasn’t too bad. It was actually a fun game.
Then the fourth quarter happened.
Detroit got sloppy and the Mavericks locked in. Luka Doncic, the do-everything superstar, had his way with Detroit after scoring 53 points and Spencer Dinwiddie helped put his former team away with an array of pull ups and driving layups.