Detroit’s crisis comes to
Two mighty kings overwhelm Dennis Schröder’s Piston
Two mighty kings overwhelm Dennis Schröder’s Piston
04/08/2025, 6:53 am
Basketball professional Dennis Schröder and the Detroit Pistons lose their good shape shortly before the start of the play-offs of the NBA. Against the Sacramento Kings there is the fourth defeat in the fifth game one after the other. A Kings duo cannot be stopped.
The Detroit Pistons are in a efficient result crisis just before the start of the NBA playoffs. The team around world champion Dennis Schröder also lost to Sacramento Kings, conceding the fourth defeat from the past five games. Since moving into the playoffs, the pistons have not won a game. Against the Kings there was an 117: 127.
Detroit is in sixth place in the Eastern Conference. Orlando Magic around German Franz Wagner in seventh place can no longer pass by, but the pistons threaten to gamble away the view of a better placement. With a balance of 43:36 victories, Schröder’s team needs a run to overtake the Milwaukee Bucks (44:34).
Schröder didn’t have a good evening offensive and came to just five points – he converted one of his two trials and hit two of his four free throws. Cade Cunningham posted 35 points for the pistons, against the concentrated power of Demar Derozan with 37 points and the 43 points for Zach Lavine was not enough. The two once already played together for the Chicago Bulls. For the Kings, who took the lead shortly before the end of the third quarter, it was the third victory from the past three games. With this, the team strengthened ninth and the lead over the Dallas Mavericks. According to the current status, both teams met in the play-in, the Kings had home right as a better placed team.
In the second game of the day, the Miami Heat 117: 105 won against the Philadelphia 76ers, who had been winless for twelve. The HEATs are currently in tenth place in the Eastern Conference. The team is about a better starting position in play-in.