Detroit Pistons (14-2, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (2-14, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Indianapolis; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Detroit will try to continue its 12-game win streak with a victory against Indiana.<\/p>\n
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The Pacers have gone 0-3 against division opponents. Indiana has a 0-9 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Pistons are 3-2 against the rest of their division. Detroit is sixth in the Eastern Conference with 17.4 fast break points per game led by Cade Cunningham averaging 4.4.<\/p>\n
The Pacers are shooting 41.1% from the field this season, 3.3 percentage points lower than the 44.4% the Pistons allow to opponents. The Pistons are shooting 48.9% from the field, 0.7% higher than the 48.2% the Pacers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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The teams square off for the second time this season. The Pistons won the last matchup 127-112 on Nov. 18, with Jalen Duren scoring 31 points in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Pascal Siakam is averaging 24.8 points, seven rebounds and 4.9 assists for the Pacers. Andrew Nembhard is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cunningham is averaging 27.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 9.9 assists for the Pistons. Duncan Robinson is averaging 5.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Pacers: 1-9, averaging 108.6 points, 44.2 rebounds, 24.1 assists, 6.8 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 41.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pistons: 10-0, averaging 121.5 points, 44.5 rebounds, 27.9 assists, 11.1 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 51.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pacers: Quenton Jackson: day to day (hamstring), Obi Toppin: out (foot), Johnny Furphy: day to day (ankle), Aaron Nesmith: out (knee), Kam Jones: out (back), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Pistons: Marcus Sasser: out (hip), Bobi Klintman: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons (14-2, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (2-14, 14th in the Eastern Conference) Indianapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[18722,42528,24623,49,24617,48,8028,135307,14732,23934,2697,18735,42520,135308,127878,459,42524,14614,96762,101152,82,16306],"class_list":["post-301315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-aaron-nesmith","tag-andrew-nembhard","tag-bobi-klintman","tag-ca","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-canada","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-division-opponents","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-eastern-conference","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-jalen-duren","tag-johnny-furphy","tag-kam-jones","tag-marcus-sasser","tag-nba","tag-obi-toppin","tag-pascal-siakam","tag-points-per-game","tag-quenton-jackson","tag-sports","tag-tyrese-haliburton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}