Intellectually, I understand that the Detroit Pistons are not a solid 3-point shooting team. But when you see a good 3-point shooting team, it becomes all the more real. The Boston Celtics ended Detroit’s 13-game winning streak with 3-pointers. Detroit scored 33 points off of threes and the Celtics scored 60 points off threes. The margin of victory was … three.
Being able to shoot threes is just an incredible boost to your margin of error. The Pistons won all those games because their defense made up for their lack of shooting. That is never a guarantee, though, and tonight they face, while not a great 3-point shooting team in the Orlando Magic, they do face a good 3-point shooter in Desmond Bane. And you can add in Tristan Da Silva and Wendell Carter Jr. as guys who can get hot from deep. It worries me.
When: 7:30 p.m. ET
Where: Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, Michigan
Watch: Fan Duel Sports Network Detroit
Odds: Pistons -3.5
Cade Cunningham, Duncan Robinson, Ausar Thompson, Tobias Harris, Jalen Duren
Jalen Suggs, Desmond Bane, Franz Wagner, Tristan da Silva, Wendell Carter
