When the Detroit Pistons lost their spark, their star point guard Brandon Jennings, for the season, everyone thought it was going to be a rough time for them to adapt to life after Jennings.
So far, not so good. The Pistons are 0-3 without Jennings and last night, they lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 89-69, a team in the bottom 5 of the NBA standings, and bottom 10 in every major statistical team category.
Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy isn’t exactly pleased with his teams effort either.
From Vince Ellis of Detroit Free Press.
“We weren’t ready to play,” Van Gundy said. “I don’t think I’ve ever coached a game where one team’s effort was that much better than my team’s effort. It was a joke. They played so much harder. They ran harder, they cut harder, they drove harder, they defended harder, they were into us more, they went to the boards harder. Everything. It was embarrassing and humiliating and I told them in there, ‘I’m embarrassed as a coach that I did that poor a job and if they’re not embarrassed, they don’t belong in the NBA.'”
Why is he mad? Well the Pistons are trying to fight for a playoff spot and losses to the Sixers, by 20, doesn’t help their cause at all. Not only did they lose, they shot 30 % as a team on the night, 2-20 from 3-point land, and a team that is second in the NBA in rebounds was outrebounded by Philadelphia by 10 boards.
Yea, Detroit should definitely be embarrassed.
