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Grant Hill drives by Ben Gordon. In a shocking twist, the Detroit Pistons played like a team closing off an unsuccessful road trip last night.

Portland fans will need to study their game programs to recognize some of the players in the Detroit Pistons' lineup when they visit the Rose Garden tonight.

The Pistons were mostly manhandled in Los Angeles last night by the Lakers. They came out flat, gave inconsistent effort, and appeared to be out of sync for most of the game.

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Detroit Pistons .

Some of this would help tonight. Browse more photos>> Home at last! And we get an interesting opponent to begin this stretch of 7 home dates in the next 9 games.

Los Angeles -- The Los Angeles Lakers came into Tuesday's game angry, and the Pistons paid the price.

So far this season, the Detroit Pistons have been a hard team to figure out. Some nights they appear to be a fairly cohesive bunch, able to execute equally well with their bench and first unit.

The Pistons did not have an answer for Kobe Bryant. Minus a frantic fourth quarter effort to close the gap, there wasn't much good to write about last night's game .

Did the Lakers send a championship ring to Kwame Brown? "What?" Brown responded when asked the question Tuesday night.

The defensive numbers are in after eight games. The Pistons are allowing 89.62 points per game -- good for fifth in the NBA.

Bynumite! It's on you, Earl. Who would've guessed that Flip Saunders would be looking up at the Detroit Pistons in the standings when he faced his former team for the first time? The new-look Pistons are looking to win their third game in a row tonight at Verizon Center.

Auburn Hills -- LeBron James plans to give up No. 23 next season and wants other players to stop wearing Michael Jordan's iconic number as well.

Auburn Hills -- Some Pistons agree with LeBron James -- that NBA players should give up wearing jersey No.

Louis Amundson has found a home in the NBA. Literally. After signing a one-year deal for $855,189 to remain with the Suns, Amundson took advantage of the buyers' market to purchase a house in Phoenix.

Pistons first-year coach John Kuester will try to treat the next game like every other, but that's not possible.

In the spring, Detroit's new head coach, John Kuester, was rumored to be a possible candidate for the Sixers' head coaching vacancy.

Now in his second stint with the Detroit Pistons, some observers might think that center Ben Wallace is simply riding out the rest of his career with the team he won a championship with in 2004.

Jonas Jerebko made some hustle plays in his first-ever start. Well, that was a relief .

After the Pistons lost their home opener, new coach John Kuester said his team "didn't have any ball movement and we didn't execute" and struggled with "ball reversals and spacing" and said "we were looking to get quick attacks" instead of running the offense.

When he first sprained his right ankle, Rip Hamilton said it felt like the ankle 'actually hit the floor.' That was the first sign that it wasn't a run-of-the-mill sprain.