Kelly Olynyk scored 25 points and the short-handed Utah Jazz beat Detroit 119-111 on Thursday night for the Pistons’ 25th straight loss– one except the NBA single-season record. The 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers share the record at 26. The 76ers hold the general mark at 28, a skid that began in the 2014-15 season and rollovered into 2015-16. “I wish to take care with my words, since this one harms more than the majority of them,” first-year coach Monty Williams stated. “A group that played last night got (50) points off turnovers and rebounds. It is incredibly difficult to comprehend how we can get outworked in those classifications.” The Pistons was up to 2-26, with the crowd shouting “Sell the group! Offer the group!” at the end in a loud declaration to owner Tom Gores and his Platinum Equity company. Detroit will be back in action Saturday night in Brooklyn. “We’re not 2-26 bad– no chance are we that bad,” stated Cade Cunningham, who led Detroit with 28 points and 10 helps. “I believe we can turn this around. We can play a better brand name of basketball.” Utah played without 4 of its leading 7 scorers– Lauri Markkanen, Jordan Clarkson, Keyonte George and Talen Horton-Tucker– on the 2nd night of a back-to-back after losing at Cleveland on Wednesday. “That’s a truly, truly great group win for us,” Jazz coach Will Hardy stated. “That’s a difficult video game to play– 2nd night of a back-to-back on the roadway with a lot of guys out.” Collin Sexton included 19 points for allure Utah, and Ochai Agbaji had 18. Jaden Ivey included 24 points for Detroit, and Marvin Bagley III had 22, however nobody else had more than 8. Utah led 90-88 entering into the 4th quarter and benefited from Detroit’s bad shooting to increase make it 100-93 with 7:40 to play. The Pistons missed their very first 6 three-point efforts of the 4th, however Bojan Bogdanovic struck one to make it 104-100 with 4:40 left. Olynyk’s three-pointer versus his previous group put allure up 7 and Sexton’s tip-in made it 115-106 with 1:37 to play. “Rebounding is something we’ve highlighted all season, and it is certainly part of our identity on the offending side of the ball,” Hardy stated after his group ended up with 15 offending rebounds. Sexton included 2 totally free tosses to make it an 11-point video game. The Pistons were 1 for 10 on 3s in the 4th qyarter. “We had a possibility to win it down the stretch, and we simply weren’t strong enough,” Cunningham stated. “This is history nobody wishes to belong of.”
‘Sell the group’ chants emerge as Detroit Pistons crash to 25th straight defeat
