SAN ANTONIO – The Spurs have secured yet another home win, this time over the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n
Despite a mid-game rally by the Pistons, the spurs were able to maintain dominance the entire game.<\/p>\n
Thanks to strong showings during the first and fourth quarters, the Spurs secured the win over the Pistons (121-106).<\/p>\n
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San Antonio will try to keep its five-game home win streak alive when the Spurs play Detroit. Thursday’s game is the second meeting of the season between the two teams. The Spurs won the previous matchup 114-103. San Antonio is 21-6 at home, and Detroit is 21-8 on the road.<\/p>\n
Detroit Pistons (45-15, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (44-17, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio hosts Detroit, aiming to extend its five-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 21-6 on their home court. San Antonio ranks third in the Western Conference in team defense, allowing only 111.4 points while holding opponents to 45.0% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Pistons have gone 21-8 away from home. Detroit is fourth in the league with 46.3 rebounds per game led by Jalen Duren averaging 10.8.<\/p>\n
The 118.2 points per game the Spurs average are 8.7 more points than the Pistons allow (109.5). The Pistons average 10.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.1 fewer made shots on average than the 12.9 per game the Spurs give up.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Spurs won the last meeting 114-103 on Feb. 24. Devin Vassell scored 28 points to help lead the Spurs to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: De’Aaron Fox is shooting 48.1% and averaging 18.6 points for the Spurs. Victor Wembanyama is averaging 20.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Duren is scoring 18.6 points per game and averaging 10.8 rebounds for the Pistons. Cade Cunningham is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 9-1, averaging 123.0 points, 46.5 rebounds, 32.2 assists, 8.5 steals and 7.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pistons: 8-2, averaging 115.7 points, 48.9 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 10.6 steals and 7.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Harrison Barnes: day to day (ankle), Mason Plumlee: day to day (reconditioning).<\/p>\n
Pistons: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – The Spurs have secured yet another home win, this time over the Detroit Pistons. Despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-517470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517470","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=517470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}