Pistons drop twenty fifth straight to maneuver inside lack of tying NBA single-season document
DETROIT — Kelly Olynyk scored 25 factors and the short-handed Utah Jazz beat Detroit 119-111 on Thursday night time for the Pistons’ twenty fifth straight loss – one wanting the NBA single season document.
The 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers share the document at 26. The 76ers maintain the general mark at 28, a skid that began within the 2014-15 season and carried over into 2015-16.
“I want to be careful with my words, because this one hurts more than most of them,” first-year coach Monty Williams stated. “A team that played last night got (50) points off turnovers and rebounds. It is unbelievably hard to understand how we can get outworked in those categories.”
The Pistons fell to 2-26, with the group chanting “Sell the team! Sell the team!” on the finish in a loud assertion to proprietor Tom Gores and his Platinum Equity agency. Detroit will probably be again in motion Saturday night time in Brooklyn.
“We’re not 2-26 bad – no way are we that bad,” stated Cade Cunningham, who led Detroit with 28 factors and 10 assists. “I think we can turn this around. We can play a much better brand of basketball.”
Utah performed with out 4 of its high seven scorers – Lauri Markkanen, Jordan Clarkson, Keyonte George and Talen Horton-Tucker – on the second night time of a back-to-back after dropping at Cleveland on Wednesday.
“That’s a really, really good team win for us,” Jazz coach Will Hardy stated. “That’s a hard game to play – second night of a back-to-back on the road with a bunch of guys out.”
Collin Sexton added 19 factors for the Jazz Utah, and Ochai Agbaji had 18. Jaden Ivey added 24 factors for Detroit, and Marvin Bagley III had 22, however nobody else had greater than eight.
Utah led 90-88 going into the fourth quarter and took benefit of Detroit‘s poor shooting to increase make it 100-93 with 7:40 to play.
The Pistons missed their first six 3-point attempts of the fourth, but Bojan Bogdanovic hit one to make it 104-100 with 4:40 left. Olynyk’s 3-pointer in opposition to his former staff put the Jazz up seven and Sexton’s tip-in made it 115-106 with 1:37 to play.
“Rebounding is something we’ve emphasized all season, and it is definitely part of our identity on the offensive side of the ball,” Hardy stated after his staff completed with 15 offensive rebounds.
Sexton added two free throws to make it an 11-point sport.
The Pistons had been 1 for 10 on 3s within the fourth qyarter.
“We had a chance to win it down the stretch, and we just weren’t solid enough,” Cunningham stated. “This is history no one wants to be a part of.”
UP NEXT
Jazz: At Toronto on Saturday night time.
Pistons: At Brooklyn on Saturday night time.
