PHOENIX – If Stan Van Gundy had to choose between a top-10 offense or a top-10 defense, he wouldn’t hesitate to make the call.
He’s got the top-10 defense so far, the Pistons sitting at No. 5 through eight games. But he knows a bottom-10 offense isn’t taking the Pistons where they expected this season to carry them. And that’s where they stand, 24th in the NBA after Wednesday’s 107-100 loss to Phoenix in which they shot 36 percent.
Before they left for their current four-game Western Conference road swing, the Pistons were fifth in defense and 17th in offense in fashioning a 4-2 record.