Sunday featured another case of the Detroit Pistons “controlling the chaos” by defeating the Boston Celtics 119-113. The franchise has spoken about embracing and fighting through adversity as its identity. Their matchup against Boston called for that same gritty mentality. After being down as many as 17 points in the first half, the Pistons needed to rally back in their home debut of the season. Detroit forward Ausar Thompson labeled the victory an “identity win” during the postgame media session.

“I would definitely call this an identity win. Just because of the way the second group came in there and they re-showed us our identity for a second when we were lost and down [17],” Thompson explained. “Once they did that, we came back, and we kept that identity for the rest of the game.

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