The NBA regular season continued, with the East facing a strong and weak confrontation, with the Green Army sitting at home against the Pistons.
Before the game began, the two teams were at two extremes, and the Green Army had already achieved the league's longest nine-game winning streak after its last big win over the 76ers, and the team also sat in sixth place in the East.
On the other hand, the Pistons suffered the longest 8 consecutive losses in the current league, ranking first in the league, and the overall strength and status of the two teams were very different.
As soon as the game began, the fiery Green Army established an early lead under the leadership of the dual-core Brown and Tatum.
Although the Pistons' overall combat effectiveness is not good, there is no lack of resilience within the team, and it blossoms at the beginning of the game, and at the end of the first quarter, it is only 2 points behind the Green Army.
In the second quarter, the two teams were still inseparable, the score was always tight, and both teams maintained a fiery feel on the outside, and at the end of the half, the Green Army only led by 4 points.
Yi Bian fought again, the Pistons' young players became more and more courageous, coupled with the Green Army's Tatum's continuous mistakes, the Pistons successfully completed the rebound.
After that, the two teams alternated leads, the green army double star showed strong personal strength, the Pistons through the front court rebounding scramble, tightly grasped the score, and at the end of the third quarter, reversed the point difference, to take a one-point lead.
Entering the final quarter of the scramble, the Green Army once played an offensive climax, establishing a nearly double-digit lead, but the Pistons did not give in, quickly gave the same level of attack wave, re-established the advantage, although the key moment White completed the key steal, but Tatum did not hit the dead, and finally the Green Army lost 111-112 points.
Throughout the game, the Pistons, as the league's penultimate pistons, showed the competitiveness and vitality of the young players inside the team after the trade deadline.
Among them, Canningan performed well, handing over 20 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists in the whole game, and Grant, who had been deeply involved in trade rumors, continued to be hot after getting rid of injuries, and handed over 24 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals.
In addition, Stewart had 12 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists, Sadiq Bay 20 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals, Olynyk had 15 points, 6 rebounds and 2 steals, and new signing Bagley had 6 points and 6 rebounds.
On the other hand, on the green side, the core Tatum was in a sluggish state, and at the same time, he chose to make a series of mistakes at key moments and missed key kills.
Throughout the game, Tatum played 39 minutes, shooting 7-of-15, delivering 22 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal, but also made as many as 7 turnovers.
In contrast, Brown remained hot, playing 38 minutes, shooting 12-of-21, with 31 points, 2 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal.
But Tatum's state is not online, coupled with the team's internal line is completely exploded by the other side, the Green Army double star can only accept 53 points, 11 assists and 6 rebounds, and was ended by the league's penultimate Pistons 9 consecutive wins.
As a result, the Green Army's record has reached 34 wins and 26 losses, continuing to rank sixth in the East, but the gap with the team behind them is narrowing.
Among them, after ending an 11-game losing streak, the Nets won 2 consecutive games, under the leadership of new signings Sescuiri and Drummond, the Nets reversed the defeat of the Knicks in the same city, won a valuable two-game winning streak, directly narrowed the gap between the team and the Green Army to 2 wins, retained the possibility of directly entering the playoffs, and became the big winner of the Green Army's upset loss.