The Detroit Pistons are learning how to fight, but they aren’t necessarily the last team standing. The Pistons fell to the Houston Rockets 101-99 in an extremely physical game that came down to the final possession.
Down by 3 with the ball and 8 seconds remaining, the Pistons inbounded the ball to Cade Cunningham but Fred VanVleet fouled intentionally to prevent a game-tying shot. Cade made the first and intentionally missed the second, which ricocheted into the corner and found Jaden Ivey. Ivey sidestepped into a difficult corner 3 which came up short, but was rebounded by Tobias Harris who went up for the game-tying shot but was fouled.