Detroit Pistons (24-6, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (10-19, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Salt Lake City; Friday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Utah aims to break its four-game slide when the Jazz take on Detroit.<\/p>\n
The Jazz are 7-10 on their home court. Utah ranks sixth in the Western Conference with 33.0 defensive rebounds per game led by Jusuf Nurkic averaging 7.1.<\/p>\n
The Pistons have gone 11-4 away from home. Detroit ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference with 32.8 defensive rebounds per game led by Jalen Duren averaging 6.7.<\/p>\n
The Jazz are shooting 45.7% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 44.3% the Pistons allow to opponents. The Pistons average 10.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.5 fewer made shots on average than the 15.4 per game the Jazz give up.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Pistons won the last meeting 114-103 on Nov. 6. Cade Cunningham scored 31 points to help lead the Pistons to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Keyonte George is averaging 23.9 points and 6.8 assists for the Jazz. Kyle Filipowski is averaging 25.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Duren is scoring 18.5 points per game and averaging 11.1 rebounds for the Pistons. Tobias Harris is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 4-6, averaging 124.1 points, 44.8 rebounds, 30.2 assists, 6.8 steals and 2.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 131.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pistons: 8-2, averaging 118.0 points, 48.6 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 10.4 steals and 6.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Jazz: Georges Niang: out (foot), Lauri Markkanen: day to day (injury management), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Jusuf Nurkic: day to day (rest).<\/p>\n
Pistons: Ronald Holland II: day to day (knee).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons (24-6, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (10-19, 12th in the Western Conference) Salt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[181085,966,20509,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-369069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-181085","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-basketball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}