The Kings reversed the Pistons with 20 points to keep fourth: 4 people hit 115 points, and Xiao Sa 37 + 10 + 13
On January 10, Beijing time, the NBA regular season King played away against the Pistons, and the core of the Pistons, Cunningham, was absent due to a left knee injury. The Kings lost 47 points in the first quarter with poor defense and trailed by 20 points at most, but the Kings quickly crushed the Pistons with excellent offense to overtake the score, and blossomed in the final quarter to expand the double-digit advantage, and finally the Kings defeated the Pistons 131-110 to retain the fourth place in the West, and the Pistons swallowed five consecutive losses and continued to be at the bottom of the league with 3 wins and 34 losses. Sabonis Jr. had 37 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists, Murray had 32 points, Fox had 26 points and Monk had 20 points, and Bojan had 26 points to lead the Pistons to four double-doubles.
The two sides met for the first time of the season, with the Kings playing fully healthy, and the Pistons lacking core Cunningham and Morris and Stewart. At the beginning of the first quarter, when the Kings were only 2 points behind at 11-13, they were suppressed by the Pistons with consecutive three-point rain, and the Pistons were crushed by a wave of 36-14 offense, and the Kings had fallen behind by 20 points at 27-47. The Kings chased two more points and still trailed by 18 points at 29-47 at the end of the first quarter. The Kings were 0-of-6 from three-point range in the first quarter, the Pistons were 7-of-10 from three-point range, the Kings scored 21 points from 7 three-point range, and the Pistons shot 19-of-25 from the field in the first quarter with a whopping 76% shooting percentage. Sabonis Jr. scored 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting in the first quarter, Bojan scored 13 points on 5-of-5 shooting and Duren finished with 10 points and six rebounds on 5-of-5 shooting.
In the second quarter of the game, the Kings started a crazy counterattack, the Pistons failed to continue the super high offensive crosshairs in the first quarter, the Kings played a 39-18 single quarter net win of 21 points in the second quarter, and the Kings had surpassed the Pistons by 3 points at 68-65 at the end of the first half. In the first two quarters, the Kings' crosshairs improved to 66.7% on 30-of-45 shooting, and all three players scored in double figures, Sabonis Jr. scored 22 points and 7 assists on 10-of-11 shooting, Fox scored 12 points and Murray scored 15 points. The Pistons also had three players in double figures, with Bojan scoring 22 points on 8-of-9 shooting, Duren 10 and Ivey 16.
The Kings took the lead in a wave of 15-3 offense to expand the 15-point advantage, and the Pistons also stubbornly fought back to chase the score. The two teams tied the game at 30-30 in the quarter, and the Kings led the Pistons by just three points at 98-95 at the end of the third quarter. In the first three quarters, the Kings were 8-of-21 from three-point range, the Pistons were 14-of-30 from three-pointers, and the Kings lost six three-pointers from the outside to score as many as 18 points. In the first three quarters, both sides scored in double figures, Sabonis Jr. scored 31 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 steals on 13-of-16 shooting, Murray scored 24 points on 10-of-12 shooting, Fox scored 16 points, 4 assists and 5 turnovers, Bojan scored 26 points on 10-of-12 shooting, Ivey scored 19 points and Burks scored 16 points.
In the final quarter of the game, Sabonis Jr. and Murray scored consecutive points again, Fox and Monk also continued to fire from the outside, and the Kings gradually crushed the Pistons with the help of the offensive that blossomed inside and outside, and also successfully expanded the 15+ advantage in the second half of the fourth quarter to lay the victory, and finally the Kings 4 20+ completed a 20-point reversal to win.
(Text/Drunken Sleeping)