The Detroit Pistons have actually climaxed for a lot of successive losses in a single season. They connected the record with a loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday and suffered their 27th straight defeat to the exact same team, 118-112, on Tuesday. Just the Philadelphia 76ers, who dropped 28 video games in a row in between the 2014-15 and 2015-16 projects have actually withstood an even worse losing streak.
Detroit began the night strong at Little Caesars Arena and won the very first quarter 31-25. The Nets outscored the home group by 13 in the 2nd frame to remove that lead. Cade Cunningham’s vibrant scoring assisted the Pistons stay competitive in the 3rd quarter. He gathered 18 points in the duration to keep ball game close, however Brooklyn had enough in the tank to edge Detroit out.
Cunningham completed with 41 points, 9 rebounds, and 5 helps. Bojan Bogdanovic cracked in with 23 points of his own while Jalen Duren notched a double-double with 12 points and 15 rebounds. Eventually, nevertheless, it was insufficient to keep Detroit from making the kind of history that nobody in their locker space had actually wished for.
The Pistons have actually long know how close they were to climaxing, and head coach Monty Williams thinks that the magnitude of Tuesday’s video game was a diversion for them.
“I’m sure it was,” Williams informed press reporters. “When you take a look at records, you consider coaches. I’m sure gamers do not desire that connected to the name on the jersey. It’s been heavy for a while. That’s the nature of this sort of losing streak.”
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Things aren’t searching for Detroit today however Cunningham was singing about the group’s requirement to continue pursuing enhancement throughout his postgame media schedule on Tuesday.
“Don’t leap off the boat. We got ta remain together,” Cunningham stated when requested for his message to his colleagues. “Right now is the most convenient time to stand off and be on your own, however we require to continue to lean on each other and continue to press each other and hold each other responsible more than ever now.”
On Thursday, Detroit’s next possibility to end the streak will come versus the Boston Celtics at TD Garden. The Pistons will finish up 2023 with a home match versus the Toronto Raptors on Dec. 30. 2 more successive losses will see them take sole ownership of the longest losing streak in NBA history.