Detroit Pistons (45-14, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (38-24, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Detroit will try to keep its six-game road win streak alive when the Pistons face Cleveland.<\/p>\n
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The Cavaliers are 24-15 against Eastern Conference opponents. Cleveland is seventh in the Eastern Conference at limiting opponent scoring, allowing just 115.0 points while holding opponents to 46.1% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Pistons are 10-3 against opponents from the Central Division. Detroit ranks third in the NBA with 13.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Jalen Duren averaging 3.9.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers average 14.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 more made shots on average than the 12.7 per game the Pistons allow. The Pistons average 10.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.2 fewer made shots on average than the 14.0 per game the Cavaliers give up.<\/p>\n
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The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Pistons won 122-119 in overtime in the last matchup on Feb. 28. Duren led the Pistons with 33 points, and Jarrett Allen led the Cavaliers with 25 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: James Harden is averaging 24.5 points and 8.1 assists for the Cavaliers. Sam Merrill is averaging 3.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ausar Thompson is scoring 10.3 points per game and averaging 6.0 rebounds for the Pistons. Cade Cunningham is averaging 26.1 points and 7.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Cavaliers: 7-3, averaging 118.2 points, 43.4 rebounds, 27.2 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pistons: 8-2, averaging 116.5 points, 49.2 rebounds, 26.1 assists, 10.8 steals and 6.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Cavaliers: Donovan Mitchell: out (groin), Max Strus: out (foot), Dean Wade: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Pistons: None listed.<\/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 (45-14, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (38-24, fourth in the Eastern Conference) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[96089,49,24617,48,2357,16548,8028,2358,23934,18735,1525,16546,16550,459,96762,49961,82,202626],"class_list":{"0":"post-509219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ausar-thompson","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-dean-wade","14":"tag-detroit-pistons","15":"tag-donovan-mitchell","16":"tag-eastern-conference","17":"tag-jalen-duren","18":"tag-james-harden","19":"tag-jarrett-allen","20":"tag-max-strus","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-points-per-game","23":"tag-sam-merrill","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-the-pistons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509219","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=509219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}