Portland Trail Blazers at Detroit Pistons (front end)
Team Totals: Blazers 114.5, Pistons 106.5
Injury Report: Rodney McGruder (O, elbow), Wayne Ellington (D, calf), Sekou Doumbouya (Q, head), Dennis Smith Jr. (O, back), Nassir Little (O, thumb)
Blazers projected starters: Damian Lillard, C.J. McCollum, Norman Powell, Robert Covington, Jusuf Nurkic
Pistons projected starters: Saben Lee, Hamidou Diallo, Saddiq Bey, Jerami Grant, Mason Plumlee
Stotts quotes: Said RoCo is such a great help defender on top of his 1-on-1 defense, said he had to look at tape on how Derrick Jones Jr. looked in the second unit (he was great, in my opinion), said he still likes the small lineup with RoCo (was great on Sunday vs. TOR), said Simons will be used situationally.
Casey quotes: Said the team needed Diallo’s energy and it lit a fire under everyone, said Diallo is just scratching the surface, said he’ll try to get other guys minutes down the line (yay), said it’s difficult to get guys in there every night, hinted that Josh Jackson could play again in other spots after they “extended” Diallo’s minutes, said he’s not going to put much into Saben Lee starting (said more guys coming back), said guys will have to earn minutes, said Rodney is coming back next week, said if Diallo didn’t produce he wouldn’t put him out there, said if guys play well they’ll continue to earn minutes.
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