Having secured a playoff berth Sunday, achieving their season goal in the process, the Detroit Pistons have set their sights even higher and are now looking to win the Central Division crown.  From there, as backup guard Jon Barry said, "we're still setting our sights on the Eastern Conference title."

According to Helene James of the Detroit Free Press the Pistons currently lead the Bucks and the Hornets by 5 ? games, and they have been working hard to eliminate some of the flaws as of late.

"We've had some slippage at the defensive end in terms of our execution, and a little bit of it has been the effort not being where it needs to be all the time," coach Rick Carlisle said. "Offensively, we just need to get back to concentrating on screening and cutting and a lot of the basic things."