The NBA regular season continued, with the East ushering in a strong and weak dialogue, and the Green Army traveled to challenge the Pistons on the road.
Before All-Star Weekend, the two teams had a meeting when the Green Army was in the middle of a 9-game winning streak, only to face the Fish Belly Pistons and lose by 1 point.
So, for the Green Army, it's a battle of revenge and a crucial ranking battle, with the team just one win away from the fourth-place Bucks in the East before the game begins.
As soon as the game began, the Pistons, who played at home, did not have the downturn of the weak brigade, but stood up early to get the advantage, and the Green Army, which played away, was caught off guard.
But after the Green Army suffered the last loss, this time the preparation was significantly better, and the core of the team, Tatum, quickly stepped forward to solve the problem and drove the performance of the whole team through individual attack.
This left the Pistons completely overwhelmed, not only quickly conceding the lead, but at the end of the first quarter, they were four points behind the Green Army.
In the second quarter, the Fish belly pistons showed their most gratifying thing about the season, which was the impact of young players and the resilience that did not match their age.
Especially after the substitute players came on, the Pistons quickly played an offensive climax through projection, and completed the score reversal in one go.
Although the Green Army's hand feel slightly declined, it once lost control of the situation, but under the leadership of Tatum and Brown, the team took turns to attack the inside line, and at the end of half, barely maintained a two-point lead.
Yi Bian fought again, the two teams started a black war, the sound of iron at the offensive end can be described as one after another, coupled with the referee's blowing penalty is very dense, cutting the game very finely.
In such a difficult situation, it gave the Pistons more opportunities because they were very young and had excellent impact ability.
Coupled with the Pistons bench breaking out in this quarter, the third quarter of the game was over, the Pistons not only did not fall behind, but also entered the final quarter with a 4-point lead.
Entering the final quarter of the scramble, the Pistons' instability as a young team was exposed, and after a fight with the Green Army at the beginning of the festival, the team was directly muted in the middle of the section.
Naturally, the Green Army did not waste the opportunity, under the leadership of Brown and Tatum's double stars, quickly completed the counterattack, and established a double-digit lead in one go.
Faced with the imminent collapse of the situation, the Pistons lost their due resilience, and at the same time gave up the advantage of the internal impact and vitality, but began to bet on the outside three points, which made the team completely miss the possibility of overturning, and finally lost to the Green Army 104-113.
Throughout the game, the Pistons, as a fish-belly team, played a good competitiveness, especially the competitiveness and resilience shown in the game, which made people look forward to the future of this team.
In the game, the team also had five people in double figures, namely Sadikbe 13 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, Grant 11 points, Joseph 15 points and 4 rebounds, and Bagley 14 points and 4 rebounds.
Cunningham was even more eye-catching, shooting just 1-of-6 from three-point range, but on 11-of-19 shooting, he delivered 25 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists.
On the other hand, the team successfully completed its revenge despite poor hand feelings, which is also the 13th victory of the team in the past 15 games, and the team can be said to have completed a strong rebound.
You know, at the beginning of the season, the green army in poor condition was once caught in a huge trade rumor, and even Brown was almost sent away.
Fortunately, the Green Army survived the most difficult period, but also let the already fierce Eastern Competition completely chaotic into a pot of porridge, the Green Army is only 0.5 wins away from the fifth Cavaliers, 1 win away from the fourth Bucks, while throwing away the eighth Nets 4 wins, the Pressure of the Nets to reach the top six is surging.