With both Derrick Rose and Tim Frazier once again out for the Detroit Pistons, the starting lineup of Bruce Brown, Luke Kennard, Tony Snell, Markieff Morris and Andre Drummond returned for the second consecutive game. This initially didn’t feel like it’d cause any issues, but the Pistons were regularly playing from behind the entire game.
A majority of the game was dominated by scoring runs by each team, with Washington going on a 25-7 run to open the second quarter, finding themselves up by 17 points with just over five minutes remaining in the half.