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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pistons | 27 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 115 |
 Cavaliers | 29 | 38 | 28 | 18 | 113 |
DETTeam statsCLE| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DET | 42-9146.2% | 13-3339.4% | 18-2185.7% | 40 | 26 | 9 |
| CLE | 42-8549.4% | 14-3145.2% | 15-1693.8% | 46 | 29 | 16 |
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Detroit Pistons115| 38 | 23 | 8-12 | 0-0 | 7-9 | +7 | +12.6 | ||||||||
| 35 | 12 | 4-12 | 4-10, Ties his career high | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | −1.5 | |||||
| 33 | 15 | 6-9 | 0-1 | 0 | 3-4 | 0 | −4 | +0.5 | ||||||
| 31 | 18 | 7-10 | 4-6 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +14 | +5.0 | |||
| 28 | 9 | 3-11 | 0-1 | 3-3 | −2 | −0.5 | ||||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 31 | 24 | 9-21 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0 | 0 | +5 | −0.9 | ||||||
| 19 | 3 | 1-5 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −7.6 | ||
| 13 | 6 | 2-7 | 1-4 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −18 | −2.2 | |||
| 12 | 5 | 2-4 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +7 | −0.5 | ||
| Team | 115 | 42-9146.2% | 13-3339.4% | 40 | 26 | 9 | 15 | 18-2185.7% | 10 | 8 | 3 | |||
Bench 38 points on 14 for 37 shooting
Did not play: Louis King and Tim Frazier (coach’s decision).
Cleveland Cavaliers113| 36 | 30 | 12-15 | 4-6 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | −5 | +9.2 | ||||||
| 36 | 17 | 7-16 | 2-7 | 1-1 | 0 | −22 | −3.2 | |||||||
| 36 | 14 | 4-12 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0 | +1 | −1.8 | |||||||
| 35 | 20 | 7-19 | 1-3 | 0 | 5-6 | 0 | −17 | −3.2 | ||||||
| 32 | 8 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0 | −17 | +2.2 | |||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 24 | 13 | 5-9 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +7 | +2.1 | ||||||
| 19 | 3 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +15 | −0.2 | ||||||
| 16 | 5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 1-1 | +15 | +1.7 | |||||||
| 6 | 3 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +13 | −0.2 | ||||
| Team | 113 | 42-8549.4% | 14-3145.2% | 46 | 29 | 16 | 19 | 15-1693.8% | 11 | 7 | 4 | |||
Bench 24 points on 9 for 16 shooting
Did not play: Levi Randolph and John Henson (coach’s decision).
Pistons115Cavaliers113ClickTap a team’s number to see the plays behind it.
PS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes. The game’s highs are in blue, hot shooting in gold, cold in gray. ClickTap a column’s heading to sort by it.
Andre Drummond had 23 points (16 in the paint) and 20 rebounds, and the Detroit Pistons rallied from 15 points down in the second quarter to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-113.
The Pistons trailed 49-34 with 6:49 left in the second quarter and 67-54 at halftime. They were still down 98-86 with 9:21 left in the fourth quarter, with a 5% chance to win, and outscored the Cavaliers 29-15 the rest of the way.
The Cavaliers had the ball down 1 with 20 seconds left, but Drummond blocked Darius Garland’s 19-foot pull-up jumper, lifting the Pistons’ chance to win from 68% to 76%. It would have put the Cavaliers ahead. They had the ball down 1 after a timeout, but Collin Sexton missed a 9-foot floater with 3 seconds left that would have put them ahead.
During clutch time, the Pistons outscored the Cavaliers 13-11. Derrick Rose scored 5 of the Pistons’ 13 on 2 for 5 shooting.
Rose had 24 points and 7 assists off the bench.
For the Cavaliers, Kevin Love had 30 points (15 in the third quarter) and 9 rebounds on 12 for 15 shooting, and Sexton added 20 points.
The Cavaliers forced 9 turnovers, about 4 fewer than usual for this many possessions. The Cavaliers outscored the Pistons 15-3 in 4 minutes with Love, Knight, Dellavedova, Zizic and Garland on the floor together.
Detroit PistonsCleveland CavaliersPS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes.
The five plays that moved the chance to win most, in order.
Each play from the side of the team that made it: its chance to win before and after, and the change in percentage points. On the court, each shot is the shooter’s face (gray when he missed), bigger the more it moved the chance. The Pistons’ chance bottomed out at 5% (4th quarter, 9:21 left). Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
97 points from the field on 91 shots: 3.6 fewer than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 23-38 | 60.5% | 64% |
| In the paint | 5-15 | 33.3% | 40% |
| Mid-range | 1-5 | 20.0% | 40% |
| Corner 3 | 5-13 | 38.5% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 8-20 | 40.0% | 35% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Dellavedova | 22 | 8 | 2-5 | 0 |
| Darius Garland | 11 | 4 | 2-5 | 0 |
| Collin Sexton | 10 | 2 | 1-3 | −1 |
| Tristan Thompson | 6 | 4 | 2-4 | +2 |
| Everyone else | 13 | 4 | 2-7 | −1 |
The tracking credits him with 22 points on 62 possessions. He usually scores about 22 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tristan Thompson | 43 | 11 | 4-6 | −1 |
| Kevin Love | 14 | 4 | 2-4 | 0 |
| Ante Zizic | 11 | 0 | 0-0 | −3 |
| Darius Garland | 4 | 0 | 0-0 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 10 | 10 | 4-6 | +7 |
The tracking credits him with 25 points on 82 possessions. He usually scores about 22 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedi Osman | 29 | 8 | 3-4 | +4 |
| Collin Sexton | 14 | 2 | 1-1 | 0 |
| Brandon Knight | 6 | 0 | 0-2 | −1 |
| Darius Garland | 6 | 3 | 1-1 | +2 |
| Everyone else | 6 | 7 | 3-3 | +6 |
The tracking credits him with 20 points on 60 possessions. He usually scores about 9 on that many.
What the players each one guarded scored, against what they usually score on as many possessions.
Possessions, and parts of possessions when defenders switched, from the NBA’s matchup tracking. The line under a defender’s name: his share of the scorer’s possessions. Usual: what the scorer averaged a possession against every defender in the regular season, eased toward the league’s rate when he has few possessions.
CLE win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
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50/50
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Highest Leverage Moments
Rose 10' Driving Floating Jump Shot (24 PTS)
Q4 0:26
38.7%
71→32
Snell 3PT Jump Shot (18 PTS) (Rose 7 AST)
Q4 0:54
32.4%
73→40
Sexton Free Throw 1 of 2 (19 PTS)
Q4 0:34
23.2%
30→53
Rose 3PT Jump Shot (20 PTS) (Mykhailiuk 5 AST)
Q4 4:27
19.2%
77→58
Love 25' 3PT Jump Shot (30 PTS) (Garland 3 AST)
Q4 2:57
18.9%
73→92
