The headline of today\u2019s extremely good and compelling game preview by Brennan Sims was \u201cThe Pistons are not done.\u201d The Detroit Pistons\u2019 injury report might slightly disagree with that take. Detroit is down several players: Cade Cunningham, Tobias Harris, Duncan Robinson, Isaiah Stewart, and Caris LeVert, notably among them.<\/p>\n
Now, the Detroit Pistons have spent an entire season proving every doubter wrong, and that includes the team\u2019s ability to win games no matter which players are suiting up. This is the same team that took the Oklahoma City Thunder to overtime shortly after losing Cunningham to a collapsed lung, after all. But the Orlando Magic, tonight\u2019s opponent, is no Washington Wizards or Utah Jazz. They are a playoff team and currently sit above .500. You can\u2019t sit that many core rotational pieces and expect to have an easy path to victory.<\/p>\n
But I like Detroit\u2019s odds. It feels like a special Ausar game to me. Maybe that\u2019s just me being tricked by the pleasant spring weather I experienced today. But Ausar is often special in invisible ways, and I\u2019m manifesting a very visible dominating performance that sends a handful of highlight plays ricocheting through social media. It could also be another good Daniss Jenkins night. The Magic are not shy about fouling players who force the action inside, and when Jenkins has everything working, he can put some sauce on his drives and create real contact.<\/p>\n
When: 7:00 p.m. ET
Where: Kia Center, Orlando, Florida
Watch: FanDuel Sports Network Detroit
Odds: Pistons -1<\/p>\n
Daniss Jenkins, Kevin Hueter, Ausar Thompson, Javonte Green, Jalen Duren<\/p>\n
Jalen Suggs, Desmond Bane, Tristan da Silva, Paolo Banchero, Wendell Carter Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The headline of today\u2019s extremely good and compelling game preview by Brennan Sims was \u201cThe Pistons are not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,63977,52275,48,6,47,76,3883],"class_list":{"0":"post-702306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit-pistons-discussion","10":"tag-detroit-pistons-game-day","11":"tag-magic","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-magic","15":"tag-orlandomagic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116360616649635777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702306","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=702306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}