Atlanta Hawks vs. Detroit Pistons – 10/27/15 National Basketball Association Pick, Odds, and Prediction

An Eastern Conference matchup of two squads coming off losses in their last preseason games will take place today, Friday, when the Atlanta Hawks visit the Detroit Pistons at The Palace of Auburn Hills. “It’s nothing long term”, coach Stan Van Gundy said. SVG is going to rely heavily on Andre Drummond taking a big step forward and you can nearly certainly expect this Pistons team to be taking a ton of threes this season as they spread the floor around Drummond on the interior. The two of them were supposedly in a competition for the backup point guard spot but, although Stan Van Gundy hasn’t officially announced it yet, it seems like he will go with Blake as the backup, according to Vincent Ellis of the Detroit Free Press. Jeff Teague led from the front with averages of 15.9 points and 7.0 assists last season but it was a complete team performance as Al Horford averaged 15.2 points, Paul Millsap averaged 16.7 points while Kyle Korver provided the cherry on top by shooting 49.2 percent from the field from beyond the arc for the season.

“I’ve been in L.A., never really got an opportunity”, he said.

“You read articles, you see your name thrown around in rumors and stuff like that”, Bullock said.

“Then you see guys moving without the ball because they know that if they get open, they will get rewarded”. Throughout both quarters, the Pistons were just making their shots, and committing less turnovers than the Hawks. “It was a lot of fun”. I tried to come back and ride the bike but had a setback, had migraines.

The Pistons are actually healthier now than they were when preseason action began, as Aron Baynes, Steve Blake and Reggie Jackson were all sidelined with various injuries to start these games don’t count.

It is very possible that the second year man can take away the spot from Blake at a few point during the season but you also have to remember Brandon Jennings is a factor here. “We’ve got to do it together”. There’s no other way for us.

Hopefully the Pistons weren’t displaying a tendency to look past lesser opponents and it can be just chalked up to an bad night in the National Basketball Association preseason. That let Blake move the ball around the perimeter, and got his teammates into the action. He was waived by the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday, so Van Gundy chose to give him a closer look on the team’s D-League affiliate.

“Disrespectful, that’s what I see it as, disrespectful”, Bullock said late Wednesday, when asked how it felt to be portrayed as an extra in the multi-player July trade with Phoenix, in which the Pistons’ real target was Marcus Morris.

Who is going to start at the forward spots? Van Gundy is building a similar style in Detroit, and the Pistons shot 37 threes in their win over Atlanta Friday. “If we start going one-on-one all of the time and don’t get back, we won’t be any good”.

“That’s pretty much how it works”.