Detroit Pistons forward Tobias Harris wants to see his teammates play with more urgency as they fight to stay alive in their playoff series against the Orlando Magic.
"This is playoff basketball. We got to be more ready to just go out there and scrap like we need it," Harris said following Detroit's 94-88 loss in Game 4 on Monday, according to ESPN's Ohm Youngmisuk.
"We're a little too casual. Everybody knows that. In our locker room, we have to be better."
The top-seeded Pistons are on the brink of elimination after a sloppy Game 4 marked by 20 turnovers, which led to 23 points for the Magic. Star Cade Cunningham accounted for eight of those turnovers, finishing with 25 points on just 7-of-23 shooting.
"Too many turnovers, bro," center Jalen Duren said. "They are scoring off of our mistakes. The whole series, we just been shooting ourselves in the foot. We got to clean that up, man.
"I still think we're the better team, top to bottom. But we just got to ... we can't keep digging ourselves in the hole. Then, we are fighting ourselves, that team, the refs ... we just got to be better."
The Pistons enter Wednesday's Game 5 in Detroit as the third team to win 60 regular-season games and trail 3-1 in its opening series, according to ESPN. The 2011 San Antonio Spurs and the 2007 Dallas Mavericks were in similar situations, but neither managed to come back and win their respective series.
"We're going to come out punching," Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. "That I promise you. We're not going to lay down for anybody. It's one game at home, and that's what your focus is on, is you got to go home and win one game. And that's where our mindset is."
