Detroit at Brooklyn

Detroit's last game was a 97-89 win over Charlotte. The Pistons trailed at halftime and outscored the Hornets 32-19 in the third quarter. Cade Cunningham scored 30. Jalen Duren, the starting center, was out. He strained a hamstring against Miami on October 23 and is set to be re-evaluated in the first week of November. Paul Reed has taken his starting spot and scored 16 against Charlotte. Detroit is 4-1 and first in the East. Brooklyn is 0-4, with losses of 110-103 to Charlotte, 125-121 at Cleveland, 136-109 to Indiana and 125-124 at Boston. Three of those four were decided by seven points or fewer. Brooklyn lost to Charlotte by seven, and Detroit beat the same Hornets by eight with a stand-in at center. The Nets also pushed Cleveland and Boston to the final possession on the road, and only the Indiana game got away from them. Detroit's interior now runs through Reed, and Brooklyn has stayed close in three of its four losses. With Reed holding down the middle for the Pistons, I'm on Brooklyn with the points tonight.