Well, that was pretty exciting.
After being unable to get nearly anything offensively for a 12-minute stretch, including the bulk of the third quarter and a nice-size chunk of the fourth quarter, the Detroit Pistons scored EIGHTEEN points in overtime to down the Houston Rockets. Detroit has now won three of it’s last four games, and five of it’s last seven.
Reggie Jackson scored 22 points - 18 of them in the fourth quarter and OT - to help the Pistons bring it home, buoyed by Andre Drummond’s ho-hum 20-20-five block game and Blake Griffin’s 28 points, including this deletion of Clint Capela in overtime:
Other Detroit heroes tonight include Bruce Brown - who played tough-as-nails defense on James Harden (9-27 from the field and 12-14 from the line, which tells you everything you need to know) and hit two big free throws at the end of the fourth quarter on a hard foul courtesy of Harden - and Reggie Bullock, who hit an open corner three with the shot clock winding down to begin the OT deluge.