Pistons vs Bulls

Find out who will play and who is out in today's injury report for the Detroit Pistons vs. Chicago Bulls game on March 1.

Out James Wiseman put up 23 points, seven rebounds and zero assists for the Pistons. Out For Season

There's some eerie similarities between this Bulls team and the Blake Griffin-led Piston rosters.

On the flip-side, Nikola Vucevic is in the final year of his contact, making him an unrestricted free agent this summer. They swept the Pistons in 4 games in 2019 and completed a ‘5-game sweep’ of Bulls last postseason. Unlike Detroit in 2020, Chicago decided to keep their struggling core in-tact through the recent trade deadline. With the Bulls and Pistons missing the playoffs in 2021 and 2018, respectively. Injuries to key personal and a lack of depth derailed any chance of these teams building on the previous seasons ‘success’. In February of 2018, Stan Van Gundy made the now infamous decision to trade for Blake Griffin.

The Detroit Pistons will take on their old rivals the Chicago Bulls tonight in Little Caesar's Arena, hoping to break their five game losing streak.

The two teams aren’t far apart in the standings, but are in very different positions when it comes to rosters, future cap space and picks. The Pistons have the In fact, the Pistons have lost 13 straight to the Bulls and haven’t beaten them since the 2018-19 season in which Detroit won all four matchups.

Detroit had a chance to tie the game with under ten seconds remaining down two points, but rookie Jaden Ivey couldn't inbound the ball and called a timeout that ...

That stability was just enough to keep the Bulls from losing here. The deeper bench was really terrible for the Bulls here, as Andre Drummond answered the boos from his former fans to have 3 turnovers, 4 fouls, and 1 point in 13 minutes. Williams did much better than Caruso at this, and also had a decent offensive game off the bench with 11 points in 28 minutes.

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The Pistons were a little healthier, but Jaden Ivey's rookie mistake late stymied a late comeback.

When there’s a bit more oomph to the game and something on the line, his energy jumps considerably. His energy was infectious though and for such a morose team, he’s such an easy guy to root for. The latter scored 41 points for Chicago, an effortless showing that should have kept rolling in the fourth if not for DeRozan hijacking the ball with iso after iso that slowly let Detroit back into it. Why he was passing the ball in and not Cory Joseph is a good question. So far with Detroit, he’s been almost exclusively a small forward, a position that has not only passed him by defensively but allows for fewer mismatches offensively. It feels like the franchise knows what they have and aren’t concerned with really pushing the envelope with him down the stretch. I think the answer is that Ivey needs to learn what to do in those situations. He finished with 11 points and 7 assists but, interestingly, was on the bench for CoJo late. With 18 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, he played a pretty good game outside of it. Bogey was vintage Bogey. Ivey, inbounding the ball without a timeout remaining, couldn’t find an angle to get Bojan Bogdanovic the ball. James Wiseman was bad in the first half and good in the second, a trend I’ve noticed in each of his games with Detroit.

With the Detroit Pistons trailing by two with 9.7 seconds left, Jaden Ivey called a timeout they didn't have, ending any hopes of a comeback at LCA.

See all of our podcasts and daily voice briefings at [freep.com/podcasts](http://www.freep.com/podcasts). He hit three 3-pointers in the final three minutes of the opening period to help the Pistons go on a 22-9 run to rally from a 15-point deficit. Entering Wednesday, the third-year guard shot 29.9% overall and 23.7% from 3 in his 13 games since the Pistons played the Bulls in Paris on Jan. In his previous 31 games leading up to the Paris game, Hayes averaged 12.3 points, 6.7 assists and 1.4 steals while shooting 42.5% overall and 36.4% from 3. He scored 12 of his 34 points in the final period, giving Detroit a needed push as they erased their big deficit. With two minutes remaining in the third, he hit his fifth 3-pointer of the night to extend Chicago’s lead to 20. After a quiet nine minutes to start the game, Bogdanovic started rolling at the end of the first quarter and put away all doubts about his health. He ended up missing Monday’s road game in Charlotte with bilateral Achilles tendinopathy, and Dwane Casey said before Wednesday’s game that the team would watch his minutes in case he needed more rest. LaVine, who led all scorers with 41 points, did everything he could to bury the Pistons early. Zach LaVine, who was red-hot for the Bulls (29-34), hit the technical free throws and DeMar DeRozan made two more during Chicago’s ensuing possession to clinch a win. After trailing by double digits for most of the night, the Pistons controlled most of the fourth quarter as the Bulls searched for signs of life. The Pistons were supposed to have the final possession, trailing by two points with 9.7 seconds remaining.