Utah @ Detroit preview

Last Meeting ( Mar 15, 2017 ) Utah 97, Detroit 83

The Detroit Pistons are enduring a five-game losing streak that dropped the team below .500 and out of the top eight in the Eastern Conference. Coming off the most heartbreaking of those losses in a last-second setback to Brooklyn on Sunday, the Pistons will try to pick up the pieces and turn their fortunes when they host the Utah Jazz on Wednesday.

"There's nothing big. There's nothing glaring," Pistons forward Anthony Tolliver told the team's website after the 101-100 loss to the Nets. "It's little things that add up over the course of 48 minutes that loses these games. We just need to clean up those little things and if we do that, we'll put ourselves in position to win every night." Detroit began a stretch with 13 of 15 at home by falling to the Washington Wizards 122-112 on Friday and then watched Spencer Dinwiddie bury a last-second shot in Sunday's heartbreaker to fall to 13-8 in its own arena. The Jazz looked like they were turning things around with a solid home win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday but began their stretch of seven of eight on the road with a 104-90 setback at lowly Atlanta on Monday. Utah, which plays its only home game over the next 2 1/2 weeks against defending champion Golden State, averaged 120 points in the three games prior to Monday.

TV: 7 p.m. ET, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain (Utah), FS Detroit

ABOUT THE JAZZ (19-28): No Utah starter managed more than Donovan Mitchell's 13 points against the Hawks, and the rookie pointed to effort as the issue. "There were times where we kind of looked like we didn't want to play, myself included," Mitchell said, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. "That's not us. That's not our identity. I think we just gotta come out with more life and more energy. I think if we play like we played here, there will be a lot of nights like this." Mitchell committed six turnovers without an assist in the loss and totaled 15 turnovers in the last three contests.

ABOUT THE PISTONS (22-23): Detroit is 3-9 since starting point guard Reggie Jackson went down with an ankle injury, and the team is struggling on the offensive end without him around to start the pick-and-roll and drive the paint. "We've got to get to the rim," Pistons small forward Tobias Harris told reporters of the offensive issues. "We've got to get higher percentage shots -- free throws, layups and three balls if it's falling. On a night like (Sunday), we can't settle for mid-range. I thought we settled for that a little bit. We've got to find a way of mixing it up a little bit more, getting to the rim, getting some more cuts, drives to the basket and some more drop-offs to Andre (Drummond), alley oops, things like that." Harris leads the team in scoring (18.1 points) but is shooting 37.7 percent from the field over the last five games, including 5-of-26 from 3-point range.

BUZZER BEATERS

1. Jazz SG Rodney Hood (lower leg contusion) sat out the last two games and is day-to-day.

2. Detroit SG Luke Kennard is 9-of-16 from the floor in two games since returning from a thumb injury.

3. Utah took the two meetings last season by an average of 23.5 points.

PREDICTION: Pistons 106, Jazz 102