"On a night that saw Vanilla Ice perform "Ice, Ice Baby" at halftime, rookie Brandon Knight was far from cold with a career-high 26 points.

Knight dueled with Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings and clearly got the best of the third-year veteran in the game's final minutes as the Pistons downed the Bucks, 88-80, Friday night to stop a seven-game losing streak.

Jennings finished with 20 points, 16 in the first half, but went scoreless in the fourth quarter, ending it with seven straight missed field goals.

Knight played turnover-free and dished out seven assists. His floating layup over the outstretched arms of Jennings gave Detroit an 80-69 lead with 5:29 left.

Knight claimed he didn't take pleasure in Jennings' struggles; he simply wanted to get through his 10th game in 14 days and put his team in a position to end its skid.

"You find a way to become energetic," said Knight, before he dug into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at his locker. "You find a way to psych yourself up, fight through adversity."

That kind of attitude appeared to rub off on the Pistons on both ends of the floor as they held the Bucks to 35 percent shooting from the field, 26.3 percent in the fourth quarter."