The Detroit Pistons will get to face an Anthony Edwards-less version of the Minnesota Timberwolves team tonight at Little Caesars Arena. Edwards was listed as questionable before ultimately being ruled out. The star guard can only miss one additional game before he hits the limit of games missed and ineligibility for postseason honors. Cade Cunningham will also miss tonight, and he needs to play in four of Detroit\u2019s final six games to be eligible for awards. The Detroit Pistons announced earlier Thursday that Cunningham would be re-evaluated in a week as he looks to ramp back into playing shape as he recovers from a collapsed lung. Jaden McDaniels is also out for the Wolves, and Isaiah Stewart remains out for the Pistons, so both lineups will be missing their primary sources of offense and among the best defenders in the game.<\/p>\n
The Pistons will, of course, still have Ausar Thompson, who was recently named Defensive Player of the Month in the Eastern Conference again. The Pistons have already won one Cunningham-less game against the Wolves, so why not make it two? In the previous game, Detroit used a balanced scoring attack, led by Tobias Harris, with six players scoring from 10 to 13 points. They also used an elite defense, with everyone on the Minnesota side struggle save for a couple deep threes from Donte DiVincenzo. While they don\u2019t get Edwards back in the lineups, the Wolves will have Ayo Dosunmu, and that could go a long way toward unlocking more of their offense.<\/p>\n
When: 7:00 PM
Where: Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, Michigan
Watch: Prime Video
Odds: Pistons -5.5<\/p>\n
Daniss Jenkins, Duncan Robinson, Ausar Thompson, Tobias Harris, Jalen Duren<\/p>\n
Minnesota Timberwolves (46-29)<\/p>\n
Mike Conley, Donte DiVincenzo, Ayo Dosunmu, Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Pistons will get to face an Anthony Edwards-less version of the Minnesota Timberwolves team tonight at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,63977,52275,3860,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-694828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroit-pistons-discussion","12":"tag-detroit-pistons-game-day","13":"tag-detroitpistons","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116337633273002559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694828","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=694828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}