The Pistons have won two of their seven games. They have gone 12-26 against teams with a winning record.
And they are at the top of the world that enter their first round confrontation with the Knicks.
After publishing a league sausage 14 victories last season, Detroit will soon make his first appearance in the playoffs in six years, looking for his first victory in the playoff game since 2008.
“It’s special to us,” said Pistons Cadningham’s star to journalists after Friday’s game. “We are super happy for the city and the fan base. [But] We are not satisfied at all. [We’re] Still hungry. We want to win this first round.
“The chip that last year put on our shoulders, I think everyone understands and wanted to enter and make a change.”
He thought Detroit was 3-1 against the Knicks this season, a Victoria of the Pistons occurred without playing Karl-Anthony Towns, while Thursday’s confrontation occurred without Og Anunoby, Josh Hart and Mitchell Robinson in Action.
Only the Pistons are not putting too much stock in those results.
“The regular season is the regular season,” said Malik Beasley. “Everything is different in the playoffs. We feel safe, but at the same time, they are a great team, so we need to play our basketball … sand and smell basketball. We do that, I like our confrontation against any team.”
The Knicks have seen what life is like Jalen Brunson.
Now, they are waiting to feel the impact of recovering their captain.
Despite Brunson’s return last week of a crooked ankle that left him aside for 15 games, the Knicks have fallen three of the four games since he reinserted his All-Nba guard in the alignment.
The candidate for the clutch’s year has alternated two 27 -point acute exhibitions with a couple of inefficient efforts of 15 points.
In its four games from an absence of a month, Brunson averages 21 points and 5.8 assists, while shooting 43.5 percent from the field.
“I feel great,” Brunson said after Friday’s defeat against the Cavaliers. “I feel better. Just continue trying for that, just making sure that I am 100 percent myself in Sunday and in the future.
“I feel that I am tight [the injury] In most. Obviously, it is human nature to think about things, but for the most part, I spent it. “
It is not clear if Brunson will adapt to the end of today’s regular season in Brooklyn, with a playoff sowing set in stone, but the desires of the star guard seem clear, with the Knicks in the middle of a three -game losing streak.
“I want to win on Sunday,” Brunson said. “It’s simple and simple.”