When the curtain finally closes on this NBA season, the Detroit Pistons really might finish with the worst record in league history. Place your bets concerning any Detroit schadenfreude accordingly.
There is no other reasonable conclusion after watching Detroit lose to the Utah Jazz at home on Thursday night. The Jazz — who aren’t a good team to begin with — were without three starters, including leading scorer Lauri Markannen, second-leading scorer Jordan Clarkson, and starting point guard Keyonte George.
And yet they beat the Pistons by eight anyway.
After another humiliating loss, former No. 1 overall pick Cade Cunningham had a strange assessment of his 2-26 team. According to Yahoo Sports’ Vincent Goodwill, Cunningham professed that there was “no way” they were this bad. Oof, buddy.
That statement sounds like someone’s in denial:
Cade Cunningham: “we’re not 2-26 bad. No way.”
— Vincent Goodwill (@VinceGoodwill) December 22, 2023
I know Cunningham is an athlete frustrated by his team’s circumstances. He probably feels that the Pistons might just be having a horrific stroke of poor luck. But man, they’ve won twice all season, and Christmas is right around the corner. More importantly, they’re on a 25-game losing streak!
I hate to break it to Cunningham, but his Pistons are indeed that bad.
Look out, 1972-1972 Philadelphia 76ers. Your record for 73 losses in a season now feels more in reach than ever.
This was how Twitter reacted to Cunningham's assessment of the awful Pistons
He’s right in that no NBA team not assembled out of G-Leaguers should be 2-26 bad, but he’s wrong in that he forgot the law of “sometimes it do be like that” https://t.co/q3wzGy1XUj
— AK Lingus (@aklingus) December 22, 2023
These dudes don’t even know they’re on a 25 game losing streak what is Monty doing 😭 https://t.co/wX0SEqjiFm pic.twitter.com/SAmZVrFo89
— yup. (@Geelarks) December 22, 2023
My “we’re not 2-26 bad. No way" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. https://t.co/ymSnnZADoL
— Yaya Dubin (@JADubin5) December 22, 2023
https://t.co/dXo7TwD0wJ pic.twitter.com/8wmMabUqOC
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) December 22, 2023
have the scoring margin of a 5-23 team ….. which would actually catapult them past two other teams right now. https://t.co/GEMfUW5OVl
— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) December 22, 2023
https://t.co/amVgUnnz0J pic.twitter.com/xvDJHwsLi9
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 22, 2023
The Pistons just lost to a 10-18 team missing three of its top six scorers, including its leading scorer.
They've now lost 25 games in a row.
So yes. They're that bad. https://t.co/UVHL8Kscoo
— Chris Walder (@WalderSports) December 22, 2023
Bless his heart. They are. https://t.co/itF36V47CH
— Duncan Smith (@DuncanSmithNBA) December 22, 2023
I just watched them play basketball for 48 minutes.
I thoroughly disagree https://t.co/euwOmdBflF
— Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) December 22, 2023
I hate to be the bearer of bad news https://t.co/dBva1SX1HH
— Patrick Andres, Turing test champion (@PAndres2001) December 22, 2023
Well… https://t.co/Ntc8tn7tAo
— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) December 22, 2023
Cade, I've got some news you might want to sit down for https://t.co/HNlwLOlfig
— Jacob Rude (@JacobRude) December 22, 2023
