Pistons stumble down the stretch, fall to Nets 101-98

Pistons stumble down the stretch, fall to Nets 101-98

Published Oct. 27, 2010 9:50 p.m. ET

Joanne C. Gerstner
FOX Sports Detroit

It's never easy to define a whole NBA season off of 48-minutes of opening night basketball.

But this much can be said about the Pistons, even this early in the campaign: They're not a good enough team to survive a big lapses and still get away with the win.

The Pistons did everything right for 46 minutes during their season-opener Wednesday.

But the last two minutes of the game changed their grade from passing to failing.

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