NBA - Cavaliers Get Their 37th Victory in the Season against Pistons

The current Central Division leaders and second place of the Eastern Conference, the Cleveland Cavaliers, got their 37th victory of the season by beating the Detroit Pistons 90-80 on Sunday. In their previous meeting against the Pistons, the Cavs had some troubles and lost against them as visitors. Nevertheless, this time the story changed while winning last night in great way against Detroit. All Cavs’ players were incredible and their superstar Lebron James ended with 33 points even though he was resting at the bench in the first 3 minutes of the fourth quarter, but came back to enclose the win.

During the first quarter, things were equally managed for the two teams but Detroit ended that quarter 18-16 on its favor. The Pistons kept the lead during the second and the third quarter by playing well and taking their lead to 8 points in hands of Iverson at the end of the third quarter. However, the Cavaliers came strong at the beginning of the fourth quarter and even with their superstar LeBron James resting at the bench, his teammates Mo Williams and Daniel Gibson took the control and had a run of 15-2 over the Pistons. Gibson made his 7 points in the first 1:30 minutes of that fourth quarter. Moreover, with just 7:33 minutes left in the game, James came in adding 8 points and 2 assists and his dagger to the Pistons was his three-pointer with just 3:05 minutes left. The Pistons tried to come back but their turnovers and miss shots didn’t help at the end.

The best scorers for the Cavaliers were Lebron James with 33 points and 8 assists, Mo Williams with 22 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists and Zydrunas Ilgauskas with 13 points and 8 rebounds. For the Pistons, Allen Iverson was the higher scorer with 22 points, then Richard Hamilton from the bench with 16 points, Tayshaun Prince with 11 points and finally Amir Johnson with 10 points and 9 rebounds.

After the game the Piston’s coach Michael Curry was disappointed because he knew his team did well on the first three quarters. "I just thought through the first three quarters we had done the job, done exactly what we wanted to do. And then we get into the fourth and for whatever reason, we just made too many mistakes," expressed Coach Curry.

This is the sixth victory of seven games for Cleveland, which remains unbeatable at home with 22-0 and with an outstanding performance as visitors with a record of 15-9.  As for the Pistons, they have lost 9 of the last 12 games and are trying to find their path to the winning ways which they haven’t found yet over the course of the season. Now the Cavs are 12 victories ahead of the Pistons, who are in the second place of the Central Division at the Eastern Conference.

The next game for the Cleveland Cavaliers (37-9) will be against the Toronto Raptors at their home Quicken Loans Arena on Tuesday February 3rd. On the other hand, the Detroit Pistons will face the Miami Heat on Wednesday, February 4th also at home The Palace of Auburn Hills Arena and it will be an interesting game since they are both with 25 wins and 21 losses.