OAKLAND, Calif. – For a significant part of the season, the Detroit Pistons were the best team in the league at defending the 3-point line. They have fallen to eighth in the last couple of weeks. Not exactly an ideal time to face the defending champion Golden State Warriors, as the Pistons were on Sunday at Oracle Arena. It went as expected. The Warriors shot 61;3 percent and were 13-for-25 from 3-point range in a 121-114 victory, sending the Pistons (37-36) to their fifth loss in eight games. The Brooklyn Nets (38-36) move a half-game in front of the Pistons for sixth in the Eastern Conference playoff chase, with the Miami Heat (36-37) lurking 1 ½ games behind the Pistons in eighth. The Pistons are 1-2 on the four-game trip heading into a game with the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday night. The Warriors move a half-game in front of the Nuggets for first in the Western Conference. The Pistons trailed by 21 early in the fourth quarter, but Luke Kennard fueled a comeback, scoring 10 of his 20 points, cutting the deficit to seven with less than two minutes remaining. But Steph Curry, who sat in the Warriors’ home loss to Dallas on Saturday, scored a runner to push the lead to 120-111 with 59.4 seconds remaining. Blake Griffin led the Pistons with 24 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists and he also was involved with physical loose-ball skirmishes with former Michigan State standout Draymond Green, one resulting in a jump ball and the other in a Green personal foul. Ish Smith, who played the entire fourth quarter, scored 14 points. Curry led the Warriors (50-23) with 26 points; Klay Thompson added 24. The Warriors were crushed by the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday, but Pistons coach Dwane Casey scoffed at suggestions there is vulnerability with the franchise that’s won three of the last for championships. “That is usual for a very talented team, the team that has been pegged for the last three years to be the best team in the league,” Casey said. “They are human, guys are human. You have good days and bad days but I promise you when it is time to lace them up, when it is for real, they will be ready to go. I don’t put any speculation on that or whatever the score was last night or any thought to that whatsoever.” The NBA’s Last-Two Minute report revealed that officials missed a key foul in Saturday night’s 117-112 loss at Portland. The Pistons took a six-point lead with 4:28 remaining, but the Blazers forged a 109-109 tie with 1:58 left. Casey called time-out and ran a play that freed Drummond at the rim, but Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic recovered for the blocked shot. But before the sequence, the L2M report said officials missed a foul committed by Blazers star Damian Lillard against Griffin. It was just the fourth foul of the quarter, so Griffin wouldn’t have shot free throws. But the Pistons would have run another in-bounds play. The Blazers ended the game with a 14-3 run. Follow Vince Ellis on Twitter @vincent_ellis56 . Read more on the Detroit Pistons and sign up for our Pistons newsletter .