Make it five in a row for the Detroit Pistons. <\/p>\n
Since going down 3-1 to the Orlando Magic in the first round of the Eastern Conference Playoffs the Pistons haven’t lost, including Thursday’s 107-97 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers that gave Detroit a 2-0 lead in the series. <\/p>\n
It was truly a team effort, with five players notching double-digit points, led by Cade Cunningham’s double-double (25 points, 10 assists) and Tobias Harris’ 21 points. <\/p>\n
That spoiled a fantastic game from Donovan Mitchell, who managed 31 points. It was a tougher night for James Harden, who shot just 3-of-13 from the field, had four turnovers, was minus-11 and only scored 10 points. <\/p>\n
But the story was Detroit, who remained red hot and took a commanding lead in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Fans and pundits praised Cunningham and the overall team effort:<\/p>\n
The Pistons just played solid basketball all around. They shot 49 from the field (39-of-80) and 50 percent from three (14-of-28). They had 21 assists to 10 turnovers. They had nine steals and won the rebounding battle (42-36).<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers, meanwhile, shot just 7-of-32 from three (22 percent). <\/p>\n
The old saying goes that a series doesn’t truly begin until a team wins on the road. Detroit will try to get things started in Game 3 on Saturday in Cleveland (3 p.m. ET, NBC) and continue its win streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Make it five in a row for the Detroit Pistons. Since going down 3-1 to the Orlando Magic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-658670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}