<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Maintaining a win streak is difficult enough in the NBA, where any team can win with a hot shooting night. The Pistons have won eight in a row, their second-longest streak this season. But the last two wins came behind first-half blowouts the Pistons rode through the final two quarters. They went up on Charlotte by 20 in Sunday's first quarter and had Portland down 27 in the second quarter. Winning in such a fashion could lead to a slip in focus, but the Pistons aren't worried about any cumulative effects. "Sometimes when you have games when it comes so easy to you, it's easy to, during that game, start doing some things that you wouldn't normally have done," point guard Chauncey Billups said. "But as far as winning the game and going on to the next game, I don't think it hurts you at all because you see, we've been coming out aggressive and doing what we're supposed to do, getting that lead." Coach Flip Saunders won't complain about his team taking big leads: It allows him to continue using his bench and to rest his starters. No starter played more than 31 minutes Sunday, while the bench ate up most of the minutes in the second and fourth quarters. "Better than the alternative, right?" Saunders said. "We've played well. We've jumped out. This team for most of the time I've been here, they've always been criticized for coming out of the gate too slow. We've started hard and we've been able to hold on."</div> Source: Detroit Free Press
The best part of the winning streak was that the bench played almost the whole 2nd half of the games.
