Maybe it doesn't have the same impact as the Wizards playing without Michael Jordan, but the Pistons don't want to make a habit of playing without Cliff Robinson.
  "Cliff Robinson-type players don't grow on trees," Coach Rick Carlisle said before the Pistons beat the Wizards, 97-90, Wednesday night. "There aren't many guys in this league who can do all the things he does."
  Robinson served his league-mandated one-game suspension Wednesday for a driving-under-the-influence conviction in Phoenix on Feb. 5, 2001.
  "We are looking at it like Cliff is in foul trouble," Jerry Stackhouse said before Wednesday's game. "We know he's going to be there with us in spirit. I talked to him and he hates not being able to be here with us."
  It was the 13th game Robinson had missed in his 13-year NBA career.
  "The hard part is that it just came out of nowhere," Stackhouse said. "It always hurts the most when it's completely unexpected like this."