⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Pistons stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game. A much tighter, lower scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ DET better than we expected
▼ CLE better than we expected
The first quarter was where it moved most, 5 points better than our numbers for the Pistons.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Pistons won, and why the Cavaliers did not.
From the game
Looked after the ball, twelve turnovers to their twenty
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Pistons
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Flagrant
Rasheed Wallace flagrant foul type 1 (Zydrunas Ilgauskas draws the foul)
Q1 10:12 · DET 2-2 CLE
- Technical
Tayshaun Prince technical foul (1st technical foul)
Q1 6:54 · DET 8-6 CLE
Cavaliers
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| DET | CLE | |
|---|---|---|
| 45% | Shooting from the field | 43% |
| 4 | Threes made | 3 |
| 21% | Three-point accuracy | 21% |
| 14 | Free throws made | 13 |
| 50 | Rebounds | 50 |
| 11 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 23 | Assists | 14 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 6 | Fast break points | 10 |
| 20 | Points off turnovers | 16 |
| 12 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 12 | Steals | 6 |
| 9 | Blocks | 2 |
