Keith Langlois points out<\/a>, the Pistons will be fighting for their 13th consecutive win, two years to the day, against the same opponent where they suffered their 13th straight loss. Part of Detroit\u2019s franchise-record 28-game losing streak.<\/p>\nWhen: 7 p.m. ET
Where: Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana
Watch: Fan Duel Sports Network Detroit
Odds: Pistons -10.5<\/p>\n
The story of the Indiana Pacers this season is as simple as it is sad \u2014 injuries have decimated their potent offense and it is really hard to get wins if you can\u2019t generate a way to get baskets. They enter tonight 2-14 having lost nine of their past 10 games, and just one of those losses being of the single-digit variety. That is because in their last 10, Indiana sports the worst offense in the NBA at a paltry 106.2 points per 100 possessions. Their defense doesn\u2019t rank much better (27th).<\/p>\n
The one thing the Pacers can do is get themselves to the free-throw line, and that ability is even more potent now that Bennedict Mathurin is back in the lineup. The Pistons, it should be noted, also foul at one of the worst rates in the NBA. The Pacers foul nearly as much as they receive, and Detroit has been much better about getting itself to the charity stripe this season. That could be a recipe for a long slog of a game.<\/p>\n
This could also be a game where Jalen Duren could dominate. Indy relies on a rotation of Isaiah Jackson, Jay Huff, and Tony Bradley at center. No team surrenders more defensive rebounds than the Pacers, and Indy is near the bottom in opponent points in the paint per game. Duren\u2019s eyes should be very wide in this one.<\/p>\n
Cade Cunningham, Duncan Robinson, Ausar Thompson, Tobias Harris, Jalen Duren<\/p>\n
Andrew Nembhard, Bennedict Mathurin, Ben Sheppard, Pascal Siakam, Isaiah Jackson<\/p>\n
As a Pistons fan, do you have it in your heart to feel bad for the Pacers and their fans this season? They\u2019re not hateable, but they are the Pacers, so \u2026.. ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Pistons are looking to make history \u2014 the kind of history champions are made of. Detroit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,52275,113,126,3866,6,114,53269],"class_list":{"0":"post-432896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit-pistons-game-day","10":"tag-indiana","11":"tag-indiana-pacers","12":"tag-indianapacers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-pacers","15":"tag-pistons-previews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115606786828674854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}