Detroit Bad Boys - Pistons vs. Warriors: Detroit put up tough fight, but Golden State too good lateA community of Detroit Pistons fans since 2005https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48119/detroitbadboys-fave.png2015-11-10T15:35:12-05:00http://www.detroitbadboys.com/rss/stream/94673592015-11-10T15:35:12-05:002015-11-10T15:35:12-05:00Stanley Johnson had a breakout game vs. Warriors
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<p>The first round pick ended with 20 points.</p> <p>More of these, please. Thanks.</p>
<p><span>Stanley Johnson</span> has the potential to be a special player.</p>
https://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/10/9706668/stanley-johnson-breakout-game-detroit-pistons-golden-state-warriorsBram Kincheloe2015-11-10T11:44:06-05:002015-11-10T11:44:06-05:00Drummond wants Pistons to learn from Warriors loss
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<p>The Pistons played a tough game against the Golden State Warriors and came up short. That was not good enough for Andre Drummond.</p> <p>One thing that has been more impressive than the numbers that <span>Andre Drummond</span> has put up this year, is the fact that he is growing into a leader right before our eyes. The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.detroitbadboys.com/">Pistons</a> are Andre's team now and he is stepping up and taking the lead. He made comments last year before the season about how he wanted to become a leader, but did not really step up into that role as well as people thought he would.</p>
<p>During the tough loss to the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/">Golden State Warriors</a> on Monday, Andre Drummond wasn't satisfied with the Pistons' performance. He threw a towel on the camera going into halftime.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Andre Drummond not happy at the half. Towel on the camera <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pistons?src=hash">#pistons</a> <a href="https://t.co/NHsA0J9hLY">https://t.co/NHsA0J9hLY</a></p>
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<p>While some people may view Drummond's frustration as pouting, it shows a fire that has not been present on this team in years. Players have been accepting losing and it became a part of their attitude. As the Pistons have gotten off to a surprising start to this season, a huge part has been an added toughness.</p>
<p>This team <a href="http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/6/8/8739973/pistons-news-andre-drummond-quincy-miller-draft-workouts" target="_blank">wants to win</a> and they think that they will no matter who they are playing. There was talk during the offseason about who would step up and become a leader on such a young team. Everybody wanted it to be Andre Drummond, but there were doubters on whether that would happen. This tweet by Andre Drummond after the game, believe it or not, shows his leadership and maturity.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Learning experience.... Point blank period....</p>
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<p>The tone of the tweet makes it clear: Andre Drummond is not satisfied with <a href="http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/10/9703110/golden-state-warriors-vs-detroit-pistons-box-score-respect" target="_blank">respectable hard-fought losses</a> or <a href="http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/postgame-quotes-november-9-2015" target="_blank">good performances without a W</a>. Andre Drummond wants the Pistons to win, and they'll do what they must to get there.</p>
https://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/10/9704458/andre-drummond-frustrated-towel-tweet-after-game-vs-warriorsJustin Lambregtse2015-11-10T09:04:58-05:002015-11-10T09:04:58-05:00The beautiful misery of a Warriors beatdown
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<p>The Pistons may be leaving with a loss, but the game showed that they are for real this year.</p> <p>Monday was a weird day.</p>
<p>Normally my Twitter feed is filled with the usual NBA highlights, random trending hashtags and dankest of dank memes. But yesterday was different. Instead, NBA Twitter was abuzz with crazy stats and magnificent write ups. Not about Durant, or Justise Winslow's FIFA record, or another Porzingis put back slam. This time, it was about one of our own.</p>
<p>Drummond's 29/27 lit up social media for a good 12 plus hours after the final horn sounded in Portland. The Deeeeetroit Basketball gods rolled in the finest barrels of <a href="https://www.detroitbadboys.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Pistons</a> Kool Aid. The bouncers were gone, and it was an open bar for us to feast. Better yet, we had a game against the defending champs to truly feast on.</p>
<p>Being a fan of a team in the Eastern Conference is not easy. You're constantly reading and hearing about how your team is inferior to the West. Reminded by certain teams in the West that they would be in the playoffs if they would just get rid of the conferences.We look at West Coast road trips like trips to the DMV, they look at trips out East like Spring Break.</p>
<p>Being a Pistons fan has been especially hard. For so many reasons that the other DBB writers and I could publish a book series that would resemble the NBA version of <i>Goosebumps</i>.</p>
<p>So that is what made Monday so unusual. To see people outside of the handful of regulars celebrating one of <i>our</i> guys. It was like having our local neighborhood dive bar invaded for a surprise St. Patty's day.</p>
<p>With all of the articles, the tweets, the posts, the attention - I was more nervous than usual facing the defending champs, in Golden State no less. How would a young team, that just made an improbable comeback respond after a day of being celebrated?</p>
<p>The term "measuring stick" was tossed around prior to the game, because I guess some still may question the legitimacy of this team. A more appropriate analogy would be boxing, because the Pistons took blow after blow after blow after blow. Punches that landed clean as the champ barely broke a sweat. Playing to the crowd on the way back to the corner. The Pistons absorbed every single punch and kept coming.</p>
<p>If the 4th quarter in Portland was ecstasy, then the 3rd quarter in Oakland was beautiful misery, when the <a href="https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Warriors</a> lead stretched to as big as 17. The Warriors went small, smelling blood. And the Pistons wouldn't go down, closing the quarter only down four to the champs. It was messy, beautiful, tough Detroit basketball that only the twisted masochists of Detroit Bad Boys could appreciate.</p>
<p>There's no use in me rattling off stats from <a href="http://www.nba.com/games/20151109/DETGSW/gameinfo.html?ls=iref:nba:scoreboard" target="_blank">the box score</a>, because if you didn't watch this game then you didn't get the full story. This game was the <i>To Pimp A Butterfly </i>of the 2015-16 Pistons basketball. You had to absorb all of it, really take in every note, every moment, every possession to get the truest representation of the game.</p>
<p>Sure it might have looked like an easy <a href="http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/10/9703176/pistons-vs-warriors-final-score-detroit-pistons-golden-state-andre-drummond-stephen-curry" target="_blank">Warriors win</a>, but I assure you they never felt comfortable. Their crowd never even got into it until the 4th quarter when they realized it was a game. The Warriors are an all-time great team and defending champions, and they did what defending champions do in close games. Close you out. A gimpy <span>Reggie Jackson</span> couldn't stay on the floor, Drummond was simply awesome and not otherworldly.</p>
<p>But perhaps no one had a better game than <span>Kentavious Caldwell-Pope</span>, who made a defensive statement holding Steph Curry to a season-low 22 points (I know that sounds ridiculous but come on, my glass is half full over here). I've never been happier to see Curry jolt in surprise after he caught the ball and realized KCP was already in his face. The MVP shot a dreadful (in his world) 7-18 and was visibly frustrated a majority of the evening.</p>
<p>The Pistons didn't leave Oakland with a win, but they left with respect. They left knowing they took the best shots from the Champs and answered in that 3rd quarter. You can be sure Golden State, if not the rest of the league, took notice.</p>
<p>Honestly, I've never felt better after a loss.</p>
<p>So like I said, Monday was a weird day.</p>
https://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/10/9703110/golden-state-warriors-vs-detroit-pistons-box-score-respectJamie_Delancey2015-11-10T00:59:02-05:002015-11-10T00:59:02-05:00Detroit can't keep up with champs, 109-95
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<p>Warriors stay undefeated, are too much for Pistons, are really good.</p> <p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/">Golden State Warriors</a> used transition opportunities to run away from the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.detroitbadboys.com/">Detroit Pistons</a> for a final score of 109-95. But despite the blowout score, there was so much to like about the way the Pistons competed in this game.</p>
<p><span>Stephen Curry</span> survived with his team's undefeated record still intact, but you can be sure that he's glad that he doesn't have to square off against <span>Kentavious Caldwell-Pope</span> on a regular basis. A night after making life miserable for Damien Lillard in the fourth quarter, KCP pestered Curry into the first human performance of his season. His effort on defense was relentless, and kept the Pistons in the game.</p>
<p>The Warriors set the tone right out of the gate, running up a quick eight-point lead. But it was actually the bench that mitigated the damage to keep the Pistons in the game in the first half. But that wouldn't be the case in the second half.</p>
<p>The Pistons spent the whole game as Sisyphus, but nearly got the rock to the summit in the third as <span>Reggie Jackson</span> closed the quarter with a buzzer beater to pull the Warriors lead to just four points. But Steve Blake spent the fourth quarter looking like a <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/breaking-madden" target="_blank">Breaking Madden</a> character, putting the Pistons on the receiving end of a fourth quarter beatdown.</p>
<p>Blake gave up five quick points to <span>Leandro Barbosa</span>, then turned the ball over trying to call timeout. By the time the dust cleared, the starters were looking at a 14-point deficit to overcome with just seven minutes to go. And Reggie Jackson had injured something on that third quarter buzzer beater.</p>
<p>On the bright side though, <span>Stanley Johnson</span> made his first legitimate impact in a Pistons uniform. Johnson was effective on both ends of the court, taking advantage of a garbage time three to score 20 points for the first time in his career. He also offered seven rebounds in his 32 minutes.</p>
<p>The Pistons' franchise players Reggie Jackson and <span>Andre Drummond</span> both struggled through tough nights. Drummond fought hard on the glass and defensively, but was well-defended by the Warriors in the post and forced into a number of difficult shots. Jackson also found little room to operate and had ball security issues in the first half. Their numbers were decent with 14 points and 15 rebounds for Drummond and 20 points and five assists for Jackson, but it took their very best efforts to get there.</p>
<p><span>Marcus Morris</span> is also becoming an increasingly indispensable part of the Pistons squad, playing 43 minutes on the night. He served as the go-to offensive weapon for the bench and finished with 15 points.</p>
<p>Detroit falls to 5-2 on the season, with their next game on this tough road trip coming Wednesday against the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.sactownroyalty.com/">Sacramento Kings</a> at 10 p.m. EST.</p>
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https://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/10/9703176/pistons-vs-warriors-final-score-detroit-pistons-golden-state-andre-drummond-stephen-currySteve Hinson2015-11-09T21:36:00-05:002015-11-09T21:36:00-05:00Pistons vs. Warriors GameThread
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<p>Can the Pistons take down the champs? They'll need to do it on the back-end of a back-to-back.</p> <table class="sbnu-legacy-content-table" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" align="center" border="1"><tbody> <tr><th colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="silver">2015 NBA Regular Season</th></tr> <tr> <td width="240"><center><img src="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/assets/3482853/detroit-pistons-logo-225.jpg"></center></td> <th width="20" align="center">@</th> <td width="240"> <p> </p> <figure class="e-image"> <figure class="e-image">
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</figure><p> </p> <center></center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="240"> <center></center> <center>5-1 (3-0 road)</center> <center></center> </td> <th width="20" align="center"></th> <td width="240"><center>7-0 (4-0 home)</center></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="silver"><strong>November 9, 2015, 10:30 p.m. EST</strong></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><strong>ORACLE Arena - San Francisco, CA</strong></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><strong>FSD, 105.1 FM</strong></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><a href="http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=4292&awinaffid=173843&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketsnow.com%2FTicketsNow%2Fdetroit-pistons-tickets%2F" target="_blank" data-ref-index="6" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener">Pistons Tickets</a></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3" align="center"> <a data-ref-index="7" href="https://www.detroitbadboys.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Pistons</a> +12.5</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="silver"><strong>Probable Starters</strong></th></tr> <tr> <td width="240" align="right"><span>Reggie Jackson</span></td> <th width="20" align="center">PG</th> <td width="240"> <span>Stephen Curry</span><span></span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="240" align="right"><span>Kentavious Caldwell-Pope</span></td> <th width="20" align="center">SG</th> <td width="240"><span>Klay Thompson</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="240" align="right"><span>Marcus Morris</span></td> <th width="20" align="center">SF</th> <td width="240"><span>Harrison Barnes</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="240" align="right"><span>Ersan Ilyasova</span></td> <th width="20" align="center">PF</th> <td width="240"><span>Draymond Green</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="240" align="right"><span>Andre Drummond</span></td> <th width="20" align="center">C</th> <td width="240"><span>Festus Ezeli</span></td> </tr> </tbody></table>
<p><br>Pre-game reading</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/8/9695018/pistons-vs-blazers-final-score-recap-reggie-jackson-highlights">Re-live the Pistons' 4th quarter comeback from Sunday night</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/9/9698432/detroit-pistons-andre-drummond-player-of-the-week-award-again">Andre Drummond wins Player of the Week <em>AGAIN</em></a></li>
<li> <a href="http://www.goldenstateofmind.com/">The other site</a><br> </li>
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https://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/9/9702430/pistons-vs-warriors-gamethread-game-time-tv-schedule-odds-and-morePackey2015-11-09T14:00:03-05:002015-11-09T14:00:03-05:00Pistons vs. Warriors preview
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<p>The Warriors look close to unbeatable early in the NBA season, but the Pistons might have the right ingredients to hand them their first loss. </p> <p>It's too bad we can't revel in Sunday night's comeback a little longer, but the <a href="https://www.detroitbadboys.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Detroit Pistons</a> get right back at it on Monday night against the reigning NBA champions, the <a href="https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Golden State Warriors</a>.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">The Situation</h4>
<p>On any given night, anything can happen in the NBA. Late Sunday night, the Pistons <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/postgame-quotes-november-8-2015">proved just that</a> in spectacular, electrifying, and I'm-out-of-adjectives fashion.</p>
<p>Less than 24 hours later, the Pistons will get the chance to prove it again.</p>
<p>On the heels of their historic NBA championship season, the Golden State Warriors continue to look, well, historic. And I mean that completely literally. For some context, remember those 1995-1996 <a href="https://www.blogabull.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Bulls</a> that won seventy-two games? Their point differential (how many points the Bulls scored minus how many points their opponents scored per game) was 12.3. That means on average, the Bulls outscored their opponents by 12.3 points per game. Incredible, right?</p>
<p>The 2014-2015 Golden State Warriors' point differential was 10.1. Not too shabby and enough to win sixty-seven games and eventually the NBA championship.</p>
<p>This season, though, the Golden State Warriors are making real life basketball look like NBA 2k. Absurdly, their point differential is a staggering 19.</p>
<p>That is not a typo. In their seven games and seven victories, the Warriors are outscoring their opponents by <i>nineteen points per game</i>. There are not enough superlatives to describe just how incredible this is.</p>
<p>Equally is absurd is reigning MVP Stephen Curry's performance. Again, not enough superlatives and again, these are not typos: 34 points per game, 6 assists per game, 5 boards per game on 55%/48%/92% shooting. For those counting, that's a <i>73.3 true shooting percentage</i>. This does not happen in real life, except, it's happening.</p>
<p>That every other player in the Warriors' rotation is basically producing what they did last season helps, too.</p>
<p>No question about it, beating the Warriors on their home floor is a daunting task.</p>
<p>The Warriors appear to be historically good, the game is in Golden State, and the Pistons spent every ounce of energy and emotion in a season-defining comeback against Portland less than 24 hours ago.</p>
<p>But, I'm not counting our guys out of it just yet.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">Keys to the Game</h4>
<p><b><i>Drummond's dominance</i>: </b>Even when healthy, the Warriors have no answer for <span>Andre Drummond</span> (does anyone?). <span>Andrew Bogut</span> is expected to play after missing several games with a concussion, and Bogut is a very solid player.</p>
<p>But Andre Drummond is averaging <i>20.3 points and 20.3 rebounds per game</i>. And just shy of two steals and two blocks for good measure. If Steph Curry has one video game controller, then Andre Drummond is sitting opposite him on the couch with the other.</p>
<p>Yes, his post game isn't completely there yet. Yes, his free throw shooting is an issue. But sometimes, the end is more important than the means, and the end result is Andre Drummond dominating the paint the way Steph Curry is dominating the perimeter.</p>
<p>For the Pistons to win, Dre's dominance must continue.</p>
<p><b><i>Attack Steph Curry</i>: </b>If Curry has a flaw, it's one-on-one defense. Fortunately, the Pistons' Reggie Jackson has the kind of game built to exploit it. At his best, Reggie attacks the rim unrelentingly. Against Curry, Reggie has a strength advantage and the skill set to take advantage it.</p>
<p>Reggie's best defense against Curry may well be making Curry himself play defense for all twenty-four seconds of the shot clock.</p>
<p>Attack early. Attack often. Don't settle.</p>
<p>That remarkable fourth quarter against Portland obviously can't be replicated every night, but that relentless attacking style should be, and Reggie has to be about it against the Warriors.</p>
<p><b><i>Defend and finish the possession</i>:</b> The biggest surprise of this young season is the Pistons' defense. Per 100 possessions, the Pistons give up a stingy 94.6 points per game, good for sixth best in the NBA. Key to that unexpected brilliance has been defensive rebounding; the Pistons snag about 81% of all available defensive rebounds.</p>
<p>Or, put simply, the Pistons defend well, and they finish the defensive possession by securing defensive rebounds.</p>
<p>Here yet again, the Pistons will have their work cut out for them. In addition to having the most potent offense in the NBA, the Warriors are the sixth best offensive rebounding team in the league (by offensive rebounding percentage). Which, put simply, means that although they don't miss a lot, they excel on extending possessions when they do.</p>
<p>The Pistons have to finish every defensive possession to win.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">Question of the Game</h4>
<p>Are you still riding high from the win against Portland? I am. And it's glorious.</p>
https://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/11/9/9696068/pistons-vs-warriors-game-preview-odds-stephen-curry-andre-drummondBen Gulker