Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond (0) drives to the basket on Portland Trail Blazers center Mason Plumlee (24) during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game in Portland, Ore., Sunday, November 8, 2015. The general consensus was that it didn’t go brilliantly, but Kentavious Caldwell-Pope played great defense against Steph Curry, so that was a positive. Reggie Jackson started tonight’s game in attack mode, finishing the first half with 15 points and five assists. J.R. Smith then missed a contested 3-pointer from near the top of the key. They had three offensive rebounds.
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It was 102-99 with 13.8 seconds remaining after Reggie Jackson made two free throws for the Pistons.
Detroit snapped a four-game losing streak despite giving up the first nine points of the second half. To be fair, I said what I said a year ago, but I did say that we would use it if we felt it was necessary because those were the rules. “We’re a good team but we’ve gotta improve on a lot of things”.
2 – Times the Cavaliers employed intentional-fouling strategy against Andre Drummond in the fourth quarter. In his front office duties in Detroit, Van Gundy has been granted a wide financial berth by owner Tom Gores-one of those unicorn billionaires who’s eager to spend money on a sports team to make a community happier-in order to fast-track the Pistons back to relevance.
Jackson missed a floater, but Cleveland’s Timofey Mozgov missed from the baseline and Cleveland had to foul.
He nailed a 7-foot floater two minutes into the game. Gentry had said before the team would err on the side of caution with bringing their franchise big man back from injury.
The Pistons and Drummond agreed to not sign an extension before the November 2nd deadline in order to preserve cap space for the 2016 season. “He’s playing as many minutes as most people in the league and that’s starting to take a little bit of a toll and we’re going to have to watch that going forward”, said Van Gundy. They started 5-23 last season and didn’t earn win No. 6 until after Christmas, and a reporter reminded Detroit coach Stan Van Gundy of that after the game. We have to hit first and I think you’ll see that moving forward.
19 – LeBron James’ rank on the all-time scoring list after he scored 30 points, giving him 25,213 points for his career, passing Jerry West (25,192). So much so, that Morris is playing the second most minutes in the league.
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Coach Byron Scott will wait until Monday to decide whether Bryant will play at Phoenix that night.
