The San Antonio Spurs have been a team in transition.
They’re young, kind of interesting, and retooling on the fly. It’s not the old guard you’re used to, but it’s a group that’s working—they’re a playoff team and somehow leading the Southwest Division. Facing the Detroit Pistons without injured Demar DeRozan and disgruntled LaMarcus Aldridge, it looked like an even match-up on paper.
It was not.
Jakob Poeltl dominated on both ends and the Pistons couldn’t stop a nosebleed until the Spurs took their foot off the pedal in the fourth as they fell 109-99 on Monday night.