The Detroit Pistons are heading downtown next season. At the moment, theyre just headed downward.The Pistons have lost four straight, including the first two games of a four-game homestand. Theyll try to reverse their fortunes on Wednesday against another struggling team, the Miami Heat.Prior to the skid, Detroit won its first five games at its current home, The Palace of Auburn Hills, which opened in 1988. Owner Tom Gores announced on Tuesday that the team will move next season into the new downtown Detroit arena that will also house the NHLs Detroit Red Wings.First, the Pistons (6-9) need to rebound -- literally -- from their current doldrums. They have been outrebounded in 11 of their first 15 games despite the presence of center Andre Drummond, who led the league in that category last season.Boston and Houston grabbed key offensive rebounds in the late going of their last two defeats.It got better the last two games but its still not good, coach Stan Van Gundy said after his team fell to the Rockets 99-96 on Monday. Look, I know they dont want to hear it right now. Were all upset about the loss but, especially on the boards and even getting back on transition, were not competing as hard as we need to. In the half court, our defense is pretty good, but up and down the court we get lazy. And on the boards, were just not competing hard enough. Were going to have to toughen up to be able to accomplish what we want to accomplish.Forwards Marcus Morris and Tobias Harris combined for just four rebounds against Houston and Morris admits he need to do more.(Drummond) grabs all the rebounds, so its like the times where we think hes going to get it, we kind of pull out of there, he said. I consider myself a great rebounder, but hes also the best rebounder in the league, so at times we depend on him to get it because he normally does.Drummond will be matched up against another top young center in Hassan Whiteside. Miami (4-9) lost to lowly Philadelphia 101-94 on Monday despite a career-high 32 points from Whiteside.The Heat shot 38.6 percent from the field and 22.6 percent from 3-point range.Offensively we were struggling, Whiteside said to the media afterward. We got some good looks, shots that guys normally make. They didnt drop. It happens.Miami is in the midst of a four-game road swing. It has played the last four games without second-year forward Justise Winslow, who has a sore left wrist.Josh Richardson has been starting at small forward in his absence.Im definitely making progress, Winslow told the Florida Sun-Sentinel. I think the last couple of days have really helped, just getting some of the soreness out of there, but its still a little ways away. But its definitely getting better.The teams split their four meetings last season. Drummond averaged 12.5 points, 15.8 rebounds and 2.0 blocks in those games, while Whiteside countered with 14.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 3.5 blocks. Wholesale Custom Jaguars Shirts . Self was acquired from the Buffalo Bandits in a trade for Alex Hill midway through last season, and made his debut in Rochester on March 16, 2013. Custom Jaguars T-shirts . 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The Kazakhs and Uzbeks could only look at the five medal haul from our slim team of 10 and shake their heads in envy.Every single one of the 12 qualified boxers has fought over five times in qualifiers, and some had as many as 12 fights to make the plane to Rio. This is a team selected, shaped and made through seemingly relentless qualification heartbreak. There is not one weak link, not one shock or inexperienced lucky member.The only missing member is Chantelle Cameron, the solid choice at 60 kilograms, and she has a tale or two to tell about bad decisions and an awful draw at the two qualifiers she went to. The final qualification -- a mercenary mix potentially involving every boxer on the planet -- starts in Venezuela this weekend and thankfully not one GB male boxer will have to make the perilous journey to compete in what will be a madhouse event.Qualification for the Olympic boxing tournament was introduced in 1992 and seven boxers reached Barcelona after a series of gruelling events. Robin Reid returned with a bronze, the only medal. Four years earlier the GB selectors, who resembled a gang of cattle traders, picked eight for Seoul hoping they would not all get stopped or knocked out. At the time GB boxers were an easy touch, like an English football team. Richie Woodhall returned with the solitary medal. The boxing world laughed at us.The qualification for Atlanta in 1996 was brutal and over 20 British boxers went to the various tournaments. In the end just David Burke made it, but he was joined by Fola Okesola, who was given the place when the Danish authorities withdrew their man because he was rubbish. Burke and Okesola lost their first fights and GB boxing was in crisis. I was in Atlanta and there was genuine despair.dddddddddddd.The disaster of Sydney qualification, where just two scraped across the line, was softened by Audley Harrisons ridiculous win against all odds at super-heavyweight. It was the first GB gold since Chris Finnegan in 1968. The truth is that in 2000 the GB boxers still lacked the depth and the mental toughness to succeed against the Cubans and Russians. Big Aud was, lest we forget, all about the mind.The reality behind the celebrations in Athens in 2004 is even harder to accept than the failings in Sydney four years later. The Harrison win had increased the funding but in 2004 over 25 British boxers tried and failed to make Athens. Just one, the 17-year-old Amir Khan made it and he won a silver.There were a lot of big names in the 2004 qualification events and it was the same in 2008, where finally an edge surfaced and eight top fighters made it, delivering one gold and two bronze medals. The success continued, the team started winning gold medals at European championships and reached the finals at the World championship. In the Seventies and Eighties British boxers were often not sent to the either the World or the European championships for fear of being savagely embarrassed. Every single one of the 12 boxers on their way to Rio is a veteran of two or more major tournaments and some, such as Nicola Adams, have been at six or seven.The team for Rio is hard, hardened and hungry. It feels like it has been a decade since both the lower league and the top league nations walked over us. It seems inconceivable that anybody other than a medal winner will beat a British boxer in Rio. It is not about the numbers, not about getting experience for some fantasy time in the future -- this is a team on the way to Rio to compete. ' ' '