DETROIT — What happened?
The excitement surrounding the James Harden acquisition vanished Thursday into a Detroit night.
That’s what happens when your perennial All-NBA addition struggles to make shots in an unexplainable 102-94 loss to the lowly Pistons at Little Caesars Arena. It’s what happens when your MVP candidate Joel Embiid commits seven turnovers, probably due to fatigue. It’s what happens when Pistons standout rookie Cade Cunningham slices up Matisse Thybulle, Danny Green and every other Sixer who guarded him. And it’s definitely what happens when fans wonder if things were better before acquiring Harden and Paul Millsap from the Brooklyn Nets for Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond, and two first-round picks.
