Clearly the Bobcats lack of a point guard made their offense so unpredictable that the Pistons struggled to keep up. The Pistons were so locked in on stopping the regular mightly Charlotte offense that when it was being run in a blatantly amateurish way they couldn't keep up. An obviously superior effort by a thinking basketball team managed to come up with a win.

Charlotte's lack of substitutions due to their eight man rotation confused the Pistons too - they kept running over to the bench to try and guard someone.