{"id":652712,"date":"2026-05-07T01:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652712\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:14:11","slug":"cavs-at-pistons-game-2-how-to-watch-odds-and-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652712\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs at Pistons Game 2: How to watch, odds, and injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> had plenty of chances to steal Game 1 against the Detroit Pistons<\/a>, but careless turnovers, an inability to secure defensive rebounds, questionable coaching<\/a>, and overall bad offensive process kept them from doing so. Whether or not they can turn around will determine how this series goes.<\/p>\n

Winning Game 2 will be tough. J.B. Bickerstaff-led teams are 5-1 in the playoffs. The lone Game 2 loss came when he was leading James Harden<\/a> and the Houston Rockets<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n

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Cleveland hopes to break that trend in Game 2. Heading back to Cleveland down 2-0 would mean they would have to win four of the last five games of the series. That isn\u2019t an impossible task, but far from ideal.<\/p>\n

Overall, the Cavs have struggled on the road in the playoffs. Since trading for Donovan Mitchell<\/a>, they\u2019re just 4-12 away from Cleveland. That trend needs to end if they want to make a deep postseason run.<\/p>\n

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Who:\u00a0Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (0-1) at Detroit Pistons<\/a> (1-0)<\/p>\n

Where: Little Caesars Arena \u2013 Detroit, MI<\/p>\n

When: Thur., May 7 at 7 PM<\/p>\n

TV: Prime Video<\/p>\n

Point spread: Pistons -3.5<\/p>\n

Cavs injury report: Sam Merrill<\/a>, \u2013 QUESTIONABLE (hamstring)<\/p>\n

Pistons injury report: Kevin Huerter<\/a> \u2013 DOUBTFUL (abductor strain)<\/p>\n

Cavs expected starting lineup: James Harden, Donovan Mitchell, Dean Wade<\/a>, Evan Mobley, Jarrett Allen<\/a><\/p>\n

Pistons expected starting lineup: Cade Cunningham<\/a>, Duncan Robinson<\/a>, Ausar Thompson<\/a>, Tobias Harris<\/a>, Jalen Duren<\/a><\/p>\n

Previous matchup: The Pistons took Game 1 due to suffocating defense on Cleveland\u2019s guards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at both teams\u2019 regular-season impact stats via Cleaning the Glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Offensive Rating<\/p>\n

Defensive Rating<\/p>\n

Net Rating<\/p>\n

Cavs<\/p>\n

118.9 (8th)<\/p>\n

115 (15th)<\/p>\n

+3.9 (9th)<\/p>\n

Pistons<\/p>\n

118.3 (10th)<\/p>\n

109.5 (2nd)<\/p>\n

+8.8 (3rd)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers had plenty of chances to steal Game 1 against the Detroit Pistons, but careless turnovers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[96089,49,24617,48,2357,16548,8028,2358,14732,37217,8223,18735,1525,16546,59917,459,49961,82,51171],"class_list":["post-652712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-ca","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dean-wade","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-evan-mobley","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jalen-duren","tag-james-harden","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-kevin-huerter","tag-nba","tag-sam-merrill","tag-sports","tag-tobias-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652712","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=652712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}