WagerTalk NBA handicapper Tony Finn offers his Phoenix Suns vs Detroit Pistons betting preview for Thursday, December 2. At the time of posting, the Suns have opened as a 12-point favorite over the visiting Pistons, with the total sitting at 208.5 points.<\/p>\n
Stay on top of the latest NBA<\/a> updates direct from Las Vegas!<\/em><\/p>\n The Detroit Pistons (4-17, 14th in NBA – East) are a 2-9 road team so far in this young 2021-22 Association season and are being thrown into the Lions’ den on Thursday night when they travel to face the Phoenix Suns (18-3, 1st in NBA West). Phoenix earned a hard-fought victory over the Golden State Warriors on TNT Tuesday and looked to keep the basketball rolling with an 18th straight win tonight on their home floor.<\/p>\n A career-high in points from Detroit rookie Cade Cunningham wasn’t enough for the Pistons to earn a third road win this season. On Monday night, the former Oklahoma State Cowboys All-American finished with 26 points, including five 3-pointers in a 110-92 loss.<\/p>\n The Pistons fell to 2-9 on the road, but this Pistons’ squad continues to play hard and take steps in being more competitive in the final quarter of games.<\/p>\n “We’re trying to get our energy right, trying to get each other going, but we’ve just got to keep working at it more than anything,” Cunningham told the national media<\/a> following Monday’s loss at the Moda Center.<\/p>\n In a marquee TNT contest between the league-leading Warriors and Suns on Tuesday night, the Suns were without All-Star Devin Booker, who departed due to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n The league’s Western Conference Player of the Week was coming off three straight 30-point performances. Midway through the second quarter, Booker was replaced and taken to the locker room. Booker is expected to miss the next two games before being reevaluated.<\/p>\n The only other time Phoenix has won 17 straight games was during the 2006-07 season. They’ll go for their franchise-record 18th win against the Pistons on Thursday.<\/p>\n Monday’s loss in Portland was the fourth of a five-game trip for the Pistons, who are 2-9 as a road team this season.<\/p>\n In a team, season, and career-high in points event for Cunningham, he led the Pistons in success from the three-point line in the loss to the Blazers. The five three-point shots that the Detroit rookie made were five of the Pistons’ nine 3-pointers. They shot just 25.7% (9-of-35) from the perimeter and continue to be inconsistent from beyond the arc as a team this season.<\/p>\n Trey Lyles has averaged 15 points and 6.3 rebounds in his last three games.<\/p>\n Booker hasn’t missed a game this season. He was averaging nearly 24 points per game before Tuesday. The Suns announced on Wednesday that Booker would miss the weekends’ games and be reevaluated the first of next week. The Suns limited the Warriors to just 42 points in the second half and forced Golden State into 22 turnovers. The Suns are 9-2 at home this season.<\/p>\n Detroit Pistons Phoenix Suns Injury Report If there is a more obvious letdown spot than tonight’s game for the Suns at Talking Stick, I can’t find it. The Suns kept a possible record-setting franchise winning streak alive with Tuesday’s win over the Golden State Warriors and did it for the most part without their top scoring threat Devin Booker due to injury. Tonight they will be without Booker and set the stage in front of a vocal home crowd to win an 18th consecutive game.<\/p>\n Call me crazy, but if I am emotionally tied inside of this game tonight, with the backdrop and stage set as it is, I am inside this matchup on the visiting Detroit Pistons and the points.<\/p>\n \u25ba Stay connected with WagerTalk: \u2014 WagerTalk (@WagerTalk) November 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nPhoenix Suns vs Detroit Pistons Predictions<\/h3>\n
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\nKelly Olynyk (knee) has been ruled out.<\/p>\n
\nF Dario Saric (right knee) is questionable.
\nG Devin Booker (hamstring) has been ruled out.
\nF\/C Frank Kaminsky (right knee) has been ruled out.
\nF Abdel Nader (right knee) has been ruled out.<\/p>\n\n
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