{"id":689512,"date":"2026-03-31T07:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/689512\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:57:32","slug":"barnes-raptors-take-on-the-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/689512\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes, Raptors take on the Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Raptors<\/a> (42-32, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons<\/a> (54-21, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pistons -2.5; over\/under is 219.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Scottie Barnes<\/a> and the Toronto Raptors take on Ausar Thompson<\/a> and the Detroit Pistons in Eastern Conference play.<\/p>\n

The Pistons are 34-12 in Eastern Conference games. Detroit ranks third in the NBA<\/a> with 13.2 offensive rebounds per game led by Jalen Duren<\/a> averaging 3.8 offensive boards.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are 30-16 in Eastern Conference play. Toronto has a 19-24 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

The Pistons are shooting 48.1% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points higher than the 46.5% the Raptors allow to opponents. The Raptors average 114.3 points per game, 4.8 more than the 109.5 the Pistons give up.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. In the last meeting on March 15 the Raptors won 119-108 led by 34 points from Brandon Ingram<\/a>, while Cade Cunningham<\/a> scored 33 points for the Pistons.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ronald Holland II<\/a> is scoring 8.2 points per game and averaging 4.1 rebounds for the Pistons. Daniss Jenkins<\/a> is averaging 14.6 points and 3.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Barnes is scoring 18.6 points per game and averaging 7.7 rebounds for the Raptors. Ja’Kobe Walter is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 7-3, averaging 118.6 points, 45.5 rebounds, 30.7 assists, 10.3 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Raptors: 6-4, averaging 119.9 points, 41.9 rebounds, 31.7 assists, 9.9 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 51.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pistons: Duncan Robinson<\/a>: out (hip), Jalen Duren: out (knee), Tobias Harris<\/a>: out (hip), Cade Cunningham: out (lung), Isaiah Stewart: out (calf).<\/p>\n

Raptors: Brandon Ingram: day to day (heel), RJ Barrett: day to day (shoulder), Collin Murray-Boyles: out (back), Immanuel Quickley<\/a>: out (foot).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors (42-32, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (54-21, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[1026,7,4441,909,6101,188,4958,78812,3715,912,1407,6,681,2638,1261,933,680,476,3820],"class_list":["post-689512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-raptors","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-basketball","tag-brandon-ingram","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-daniss-jenkins","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-event_preview","tag-immanuel-quickley","tag-jalen-duren","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-raptors","tag-ronald-holland-ii","tag-scottie-barnes","tag-tobias-harris","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torontoraptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689512","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=689512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}