Finally Healthy

When the season started, the Pistons thought that will be in playoff contention. But something happened, the injury bug hit them and they had to start three players that would normally be bench players. This would have been cool if it was for a week or two but this lasted for forty games. Since the NBA season that is condensed this season, that is well over half. But the Pistons are only three games from a playoff spot out with seventeen more games to go.

So when their players got injured, why did the do so poorly? The most important thing about winning in the NBA is team chemistry. A team could have two of the top players in the game but if they do not play together then the team will struggle. The Knicks, for example have both Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire, both considered to be in the top 10 that is playing right now, on their team but have struggled. They continue to lose. No one knows exactly why but most people believe that it is because they have no team chemistry; they are not aware of their player’s tendencies.

What happened to the Pistons was that as their main players started getting hurt they lost the chemistry that was built up during the off season. They trained hard together to make up for that disappointing show of last year.

Now with only seventeen games to go in the regular season, the Pistons can finally get back to the playoffs after 3 long years of rebuilding a franchise. They finally have all of their key players playing minutes on a nightly bases and soon the will all be back to starting. But will that chemistry still be there that was built during the summer? Did they start the run to late or do they still have time to make the playoffs? We will soon find out.