At halftime of last night's game between the Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Clippers, the home squad held a comfortable lead at Little Caesars Arena but was not able to hold on down the stretch. At the break, Pistons assistant coach Fred Vinson took a second to speak with the Detroit broadcast team about what he was seeing from his position on the bench in a game where the team was notably shorthanded without Cade Cunningham, Jalen Duren, Isaiah Stewart or Tobias Harris in the lineup. 

The Pistons focused on an up-tempo, aggressive game plan that would allow for Detroit to put pressure on the Clippers, force them into some bad turnovers and convert those looks into easy buckets on the other end. That strategy worked seamlessly for the first three and a half quarters, but the Pistons ran out of gas late with only 16 points in the fourth quarter of what became a six-point loss.