That’s the only way the Pistons can deal with the Rodney Stuckey injury and not let the disappointment unhinge them. They play eight of their first 10 games on the road and Stuckey will be in street clothes for all of them – and a good many more, most likely. If they wallow in disappointment over the freak accident that broke their breakout rookie’s left hand in the preseason finale Wednesday night, then they’d need him to really be superman upon his return – they’d be that far out of it.

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