{"id":526182,"date":"2026-01-09T01:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/526182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:40:41","slug":"pistons-aim-to-replicate-success-against-bulls-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/526182\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons aim to replicate success against Bulls on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the perfect way to start a six-game home stretch<\/a>, and the Detroit Pistons want to keep that momentum going.<\/p>\n

A convincing 121-90 victory over the New York Knicks, their closest rivals at the top of the East, was a positive start, holding the Knicks to a mere 36 points in the second half and producing one of their performances of the season despite missing Jalen Duren and Tobias Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But now, following back-to-back wins, the Pistons host the Chicago Bulls <\/a>tonight (Wednesday), a team they have beaten this season but also fell to in their season opener.<\/p>\n

At the time of the Pistons\u2019 victory against Chicago, though, they were riding high, improving to 10-2 and extending their win streak to eight games. Pistons head coach J.B. Bickerstaff wants to keep that same mentality to create some separation at the summit.<\/p>\n

“We want to be great. In order to do that, we have to be consistent,” Bickerstaff said. <\/p>\n

“So, if you’re playing the emotional game and the emotional rollercoaster, you can’t find consistency. I think that’s what our guys have found is consistency in their system and in their identity, and that gives you the opportunity to execute at a high level. You come up with results like this.”<\/p>\n

Cade Cunningham had 29 points and 13 assists in just 29 minutes against the Knicks, leading a trio of reserves who registered double figures in points as well.<\/p>\n

A CHICAGO BULLS TEAM STUCK IN MEDIOCRITY<\/p>\n

The glory years of the late 90s led by the great Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, are a distant memory for the Bulls, who have been stuck in a slump for the last four years. <\/p>\n

A 115-101 loss against the Boston Celtics on Monday dropped Chicago two games below .500, and they have lost four of their last six encounters.<\/p>\n

The Bulls do have Coby White back in their rotation after missing the last three games due to a calf injury, but he has not returned to his regular form, which has seen him average 18.4 points and 4.6 assists this season.<\/p>\n

He mustered just five points and six rebounds in the loss to Boston.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty tough being in and out of the lineup, knowing you can only play a certain amount of minutes throughout the entire night,” White said. <\/p>\n

“It gets tough when you’re out there, and you look up, ‘Damn, I only got like two minutes left, and I know I’m coming out.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the perfect way to start a six-game home stretch, and the Detroit Pistons want to keep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-526182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115862597330366852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}