Joe Johnson is in a slump. Time to take advantage of a somewhat easy road game vs the Hawks who are 5-10 at home and have only won one of their last ten games.
Pistons are 6-1 on Friday nights. Only loss was two weeks ago vs Pacers when Billups went down with 18 seconds left and the Pistons lost 93-92 on a game winning FT by Darrell Armstrong with less than a second left.
In contrast the Pistons are 1-6 on Wednesdays (only Wednesday win was vs the Hawks on 11/22) Lost on subsequent Wednesdays to such powers as Bobcats, Knicks, Hornets, Kings, Bucks and Pacers.
If we can win these last two vs the Hawks and Celtics without Billups, that would make us 4-3 w/o CB, and his injury would have not cost us that much in the standings, but given us a preview of our backup PG shortcomings.