A little over a year ago, we are monitoring the pistons of Strait while they were trying to avoid the longest sequence Nba history. This sequence finally extended to 28 unfathomable games, the longest season sequence that the league has ever seen and equal to the longest overall, while the 76ers of Philadelphia equaled it over two years. This sequence was so low that the pistons dismissed the coach Monty Williams only a year after a contract of $ 78.5 million over six years.
What a difference one year can do.
The pistons entered the search for a stage sequence on Wednesday, but this time it was to win, and not lose. And with their emphatic victory 117-97 on the defending champion Boston Celtics, the Pistons won their eighth consecutive victory. This makes it the longest sequence of victories for pistons in 17 years, corresponding to a sequence that took place in January and February 2008.
Cade Cunningham de Pistons starting to look like All-Nba Lock while Detroit’s soaring is won the seventh consecutive line
Brad Botkin
Not a single piston player in this sequence is still active in the NBA, and no piston player in the current team was active at the time. It came so long ago that the heart of their 2004 Chauncey Billups championship team, Richard Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince and Rasheed Wallace were still in place. This team of pistons arrived to the final of the Eastern Conference.
This one still has a way to go before reaching these heights, but at this stage, they can no longer be treated as a simple group of promising young people. Detroit is now 24-11 in his last 35 games, a better record than the New York N ° 3 Knicks during this period.
Cade Cunningham is on the right track to an All-NBA selection, and JB Bickerstaff, fired by Cleveland riders last spring, has a real chance of winning the coach of the year.
The question now becomes how long the sequence can last. And if Detroit can simply survive a visit to the nuggets on Friday, there is a lot of room to grow.
Their next two games afterwards have come against Nets and jazz, which should be quite winning. This jazz game is launching a West Coast road trip against solid but not overwhelming adversaries: the clippers, the Warriors and the Trail Blazers. They follow this trip with two games against Wizards, so don’t expect Detroit to cool so early.
The longest sequence of victories in the history of the franchise is 13 games, and the rupture would greatly contribute to erasing the debacle of 28 challenges from last season.
