Minnesota Timberwolves (46-29, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (55-21, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Timberwolves visit the Detroit Pistons in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
The Pistons have gone 30-9 at home. Detroit is second in the Eastern Conference in team defense, allowing only 109.6 points while holding opponents to 44.3% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves have gone 21-15 away from home. Minnesota is sixth in the Western Conference giving up only 114.1 points while holding opponents to 45.8% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Pistons average 11.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.3 fewer makes per game than the Timberwolves give up (12.3). The Timberwolves average 8.3 more points per game (117.9) than the Pistons allow (109.6).<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Pistons won 109-87 in the last meeting on March 28. Tobias Harris led the Pistons with 18 points, and Donte DiVincenzo led the Timberwolves with 22 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ausar Thompson is shooting 51.6% and averaging 9.9 points for the Pistons. Jalen Duren is averaging 22.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Rudy Gobert is scoring 11.1 points per game and averaging 11.5 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Julius Randle is averaging 19.3 points and 5.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 7-3, averaging 118.7 points, 43.7 rebounds, 30.4 assists, 9.8 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 114.8 points, 45.1 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 8.4 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pistons: Cade Cunningham: out (lung), Isaiah Stewart: out (calf), Marcus Sasser: day to day (hip).<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: Jaden McDaniels: out (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":"Minnesota Timberwolves (46-29, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (55-21, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[1026,7,909,76733,188,372,1016,377,912,376,3302,307,152,3954,577,6,446,373,66,308,933],"class_list":{"0":"post-691396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-ausar-thompson","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-data-skrive","12":"tag-detroit-pistons","13":"tag-donte-divincenzo","14":"tag-isaiah-stewart","15":"tag-jaden-mcdaniels","16":"tag-jalen-duren","17":"tag-julius-randle","18":"tag-marcus-sasser","19":"tag-minnesota","20":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","21":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","22":"tag-mn-state-wire","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-nba-basketball","25":"tag-rudy-gobert","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-timberwolves","28":"tag-tobias-harris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116328158012181347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691396","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=691396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}