These pistons definitely have nothing to do with those in recent seasons. Wednesday, Detroit confirmed his great season by offering his audience a victory of Gala against the reigning champions, the Celtics. Boston was certainly decreased, with the absence of Jaylen Brown, touched in the quadriceps the day before in Toronto, or Luke Kornet.
But to face the packages and adapt without changing the game plan or losing in quality is a habit for the Massachusetts franchise. As proof, the Celtics have scored their traditional twenty long distance shots. But this time without managing for a moment to take control of the match.
Detroit led the whole match or almost at the end of the second quarter when the visitors caught fire behind the arc with an incredible 9/9 to go up 15 points behind. But on 21/49 to final 3-point was finally in vain, as the premises plan was executed efficiently.
“” It's a good defense team Could only note Joe Mazzulla, the coach of Boston, at a press conference. “” You must recognize their defensive quality. At the same time, we must do better in terms of execution, whether on the screens, our 'spacing', our decision -making. A little bit of this.“”
The Celtics remained on 12 victories against the pistons
Since his arrival at the head of the Celtics three years ago, Joe Mazzulla never had been beaten by more than four units when his team registered minimum 20 shots at 3-point (assessment now of 47-4). Wednesday, the title holder leaves with 20 points in the suitcases, acquired even before the “Garbage Time”.
If Boston can undoubtedly learn from this defeat, it is mainly because the pistons have been able to give them. Almost complete inside with the return of Kristaps Porzingis, sick the day before, the Celtics, however, have not weighed at all near the circle. And Detroit was able to take advantage of it. “” They did a great job to protect their rackets Abounded Joe Mazzulla. “” We were not connected defensively to cover our circle and they took advantage of them starting with their defense and then attacking the painting in attack. »»
Determined, the pistons were incisive the whole match, not frightened by the challenge of overthrowing a cador of the league, which had beat them in their last 12 confrontations. “” The Celtics are a great team, but we owed them a »Insisted Malik Beasley, determining by his hot strokes out of the bench (26 points in 21 minutes). “” Going to look for this victory is huge. We are the pistons and we must obtain respect. »»
“Close” to their best level
“” I knew we could cause problems with many people »» Assures coach JB Bickerstaff. “” We do not look further than tonight, as we have been able to do before. The only thing we are focused on is to be the best versions of ourselves every evening. And tonight, I think we were quite close.“”
By taking 19 rebounds more than Boston, while maintaining visitors at 12/31 at 2-point (the weakest total in a match in the history of the franchise), the pistons showed a flawless determination. The magnificent first quarter of Ausar Thompson, with four stolen balloons including three in the hands of Jayson Tatum, is a perfect illustration. “” Ausar has the ability to do incredible things Enthusiastic JB Bickerstaff. “” This is what I love with our group so much. Everyone has the ability to shine in their role, everyone is encouraging and nobody is walking on their feet. »»
With this eighth row victory, the pistons come back to Milwaukee, fifth, with the same number of victories as the Pacers, fourth. Their return to playoffs seems to be more and more closer, possibly without going through the “Play-in” box, a small feat when leaving a season at 14 victories …
“” That's all we were trying to do, to restore the coat of arms of this franchise »Embed an ambitious cunningham Cade. “” So seeing that getting real is something fantastic. I am happy for the city, but I do not satisfy it at all. There is still a lot of work to do. I believe that this city wants to see titles, and we build slowly in this direction. »»
| Shots | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | Lf | Off | Def | Early | PD | COP | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Cade Cunningham | 54 | 35.5 | 45.9 | 36.3 | 85.1 | 0.8 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 9.5 | 4.4 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 25.7 |
| Jaden Ivey | 30 | 29.9 | 46.0 | 40.9 | 73.3 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 17.6 |
| Malik Beasley | 59 | 27.4 | 44.4 | 42.5 | 66.7 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 16.7 |
| Tobias Harris | 57 | 32.1 | 47.2 | 33.3 | 87.3 | 0.9 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 13.8 |
| Jalen Duren | 56 | 25.8 | 69.7 | 0.0 | 68.2 | 3.6 | 6.7 | 10.3 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 3.1 | 11.1 |
| Tim Hardaway Jr. | 55 | 28.4 | 40.7 | 37.4 | 83.2 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 10.5 |
| Ausar Thompson | 37 | 21.2 | 55.3 | 21.9 | 58.5 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 4.9 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 9.4 |
| Dennis Schroder | 6 | 18.1 | 31.1 | 25.0 | 84.2 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 4.2 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 8.2 |
| Ron Holland | 59 | 15.6 | 44.3 | 23.6 | 78.9 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 6.2 |
| Simone Fontecchio | 52 | 17.4 | 38.1 | 32.1 | 83.8 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 6.1 |
| Marcus Sasser | 44 | 14.1 | 45.6 | 36.0 | 82.1 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 6.0 |
| Isaiah Stewart II | 54 | 19.9 | 54.0 | 28.2 | 78.3 | 2.0 | 3.7 | 5.7 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 5.8 |
| Williams floods | 1 | 3.7 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| Paul Reed, Jr. | 33 | 9.2 | 53.0 | 28.6 | 78.1 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 4.2 |
| Wendell Moore, Jr. | 20 | 10.9 | 46.0 | 28.6 | 92.9 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 3.2 |
| Lindy Waters III | 3 | 5.1 | 20.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.0 |
| Bobi Klintman | 4 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Cole Swider | 2 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Daniss Jenkins | 5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
