Rather than calling them the Pistons, you might as well call them the Spider Team.
Even during rotations, they made sure there were at least two Spider-Men on the court.
This extremely lopsided lineup had cost them a lot of games.
That was because three of the four Spider-Men were pretty rough around the edges.
They could handle the ball, but they weren't good at dribbling;
they could shoot threes, but their accuracy was average and inconsistent.
But when one of the Pistons' three rough Spider-Men got hot from three, their opponents were in for a headache.
If two of them got hot, it was hard for their opponents to win.
That was why they had lost to a lot of weak teams this season, but had also beaten several strong ones.
Their game against the Western Conference powerhouse Spurs was a particularly good example. Everyone had expected the matchup between Antoine and Wemby to be the main attraction, and thought it would be an intense game.
But no one had expected all three of the Pistons' Spider-Men besides Antoine to catch fire from three.
Each of them made more than three three-pointers.
In the end, the Pistons crushed the Spurs by a massive 33-point margin.
So these days, the Pistons lost in spectacular fashion, but when they won, they did it just as spectacularly.
Another thing was that the new rules this season had affected three-point shooting for most teams, but they hadn't made much difference to the Pistons.
Almost all the Pistons were Spider-Men, so they were already affected very little when taking their shots. The rules had changed, but their impact on the team was still minor.
If they had another season or two, and those three Spider-Men managed to make their threes more consistent and sharpened