12/22/25 10:00PM Pistons @ Trail Blazers

[Tigeraholic1]

Moda Center - Portland, OR

[Deleterious]

5 game road trip.  Portland, Sacramento, Utah, LAC, and LAL.  Two games in the same town helps cut down some travel, but it sucks they are on the road over Christmas.  

First 4 games should be a breeze.  With a little luck, they will catch The Lakers resting LeBron or Luka.  Strong possibility they go 5-0 on this trip.

The Pistons schedule is set up really nice.  There are only two instances where they play two good teams in a row.  End of February they play San Antonio and the next game is OKC.  Then at the end of March they play @Minnesota and the next game is @OKC.  It's mostly good then bad, good then bad.  

Every team has one team where they play back to back road games against.  Our team this year is Washington, so that's a break.  Last two games of the year are Charlotte and Indiana.  So if they need an extra win to break a tie, those two games set up nicely for that.

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[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

 

IIRC JD took a hard fall last game when he was undercut on a rebound. 

[Deleterious]

Brunson won it.

 

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[Sports_Freak]

Ivey makes some amazing circus type shots. A Harlem Globetrotter...😅😅

[Deleterious]

Horrible foul by Cade.  He needs to be smarter than that when he has 5 fouls.  

[Deleterious]

Lucky to be playing a terrible team tonight. The pistons were really bad after Cade fouled out. They probably lose that against a decent team.

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5 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Lucky to be playing a terrible team tonight. The pistons were really bad after Cade fouled out. They probably lose that against a decent team.

Yeah, very fortunate. Portland missed so many FT and Det also had some luck on their side. Portland has some talent. Their energy and focus comes and goes too often. Big games for JD and JT

[gehringer_2]

league really needs the rule change about contact initiated by the offensive player.