Tim Buckley of the Deseret News reports:

"The Jazz have some big fans in the Detroit area.
     
They don't want autographs, don't lurk outside the team hotel waiting to shake hands and pose for photos, don't own logo-plastered purple sweatshirts and hats and three-ring binders.
     
They just respect what the Jazz do and how they go about doing it.
     
They're the Pistons, and they play Utah Tuesday night for the second time in five nights. They've never won in the Delta Center, and they've lost 11 games in a row on the road against the Jazz, five straight overall. They fell 100-97 when the two teams got together Friday night at the Palace of Auburn Hills, and they had plenty of good things to say about Utah both before and after the Jazz rallied from six points down in the final two minutes.
     
"To get up six and then give up two threes in a row is really heartbreaking," Pistons coach Rick Carlisle said. "It just kind of typified our night. We were just too loose at the defensive end and Utah is a precision team. They're going to take advantage of the slightest mistake."
     
It doesn't matter the Jazz went to Auburn Hills with a four-game losing streak, or that Detroit was leading its own NBA Eastern Conference division (the Central) while Utah has been busy merely trying to secure a playoff berth in the West, or that the Pistons began Friday with a couple more wins than the Jazz."