If this game has high drama, the Detroit Pistons have likely done something very, very wrong. Detroit, which eked out a win despite nearly the entire roster playing a subpar game against the Phoenix Suns on Thursday, looks to rebound tonight against the 10-win Indiana Pacers. Indiana has the worst record in the Eastern Conference and is tied with Washington and New Orleans for the fewest wins in the NBA. And even by their subpar standards in this gap year, they aren\u2019t going to be their best selves this evening at Little Caesars Arena. Indiana will be without Pascal Siakam, Andrew Nembhard, TJ McConnell, Bennedict Mathurin, and Aaron Nesmith tonight. Siakam, Nesmith, Nemhard, and McConnell all played last night in Indiana\u2019s win over New Orleans. Siakam and Nesmith are officially getting the night off for rest while Nemhard and McConnell are being held back for injury management. That four-some represented 66 of Indy\u2019s 127 points against the Pellies. Jay Huff scored a career-high 29 points in that game, and I guess he\u2019ll need to be even better tonight.<\/p>\n
Speaking of being better, I hope Detroit\u2019s returning veterans are able to deliver a better showing than they were able to against the Suns. Phoenix\u2019s aggressive, handsy defense gave them fits all game, and nobody looked in rhythm. Despite the double-double, I\u2019d wager it was Cade\u2019s worst game of the season. He is just returning from a wrist injury, and will reportedly try a different style of wrap tonight. It\u2019s not just that Cade missed, shots, though he did do that (3-of-16). It is that his decision-making was downright awful. He continually dribbled into the teeth of the defense without a plan, he didn\u2019t clock defenders in passing lanes, he coughed the ball up with little resistance, and he didn\u2019t create many advantages. That was probably the first game this season where it felt like he wasn\u2019t dictating anything on the offensive end. Against Indy\u2019s b-team, I\u2019m hoping Cade is aggressive, is firing early and often. I want him to keep shooting even if the shots aren\u2019t falling early. He\u2019s got to either get more comfortable with whatever condition his wrist is in, or he needs to sit out a few more games until he is truly healthy.<\/p>\n
When: 7:30 p.m. ET
Where: Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, Michigan
Watch: Fan Duel Sports Network Detroit
Odds: Pistons -15.5<\/p>\n
Cade Cunningham, Duncan Robinson, Ausar Thompson, Tobias Harris, Jalen Duren<\/p>\n
Quentin Jackson, Ben Sheppard, Johnny Furphy, Jarace Walker, Jay Huff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If this game has high drama, the Detroit Pistons have likely done something very, very wrong. Detroit, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,63977,52275,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-543866","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-discussion","10":"tag-detroit-pistons-game-day","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-indianapacers","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115913467080267789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543866","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=543866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}