The Detroit Pistons were able to turn a one-point halftime deficit into a 22-point third-quarter lead. They only needed one more ingredient to secure a much-needed victory — to play a team so bad that not even Detroit could blow the lead. Enter the Washington Wizards.
Washington let the light-shooting Pistons shoot its way into the 22-point lead behind Langston Galloway’s 22 points and Blake Griffin’s 23 points, nine rebounds, six assists and four 3-pointers.
But the Pistons being the Pistons, they had to at least TRY to choke the game away.