Beasley helps Pistons escape Toronto with win

TORONTO – Malik Beasley had 20 points, including 7 successful the 4th quarter, arsenic the Detroit Pistons held disconnected the Toronto Raptors 99-95 connected Friday successful an NBA Cup game.

Cade Cunningham and Tobias Harris had double-doubles for the Pistons (6-8), who are 2-0 successful the radical signifier of the in-season tournament.

Jakob Poeltl had a double-double with 25 points and matched a career-high with 19 rebounds arsenic Toronto (2-11) mislaid its sixth consecutive game.

RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., scored 22 points and had 7 assists and six boards.

Gradey Dick had 16 points and 5 rebounds arsenic the Raptors’ grounds successful the in-season tourney dropped to 0-2.

Takeaways

Detroit: Cunningham, Beasley and chap defender Jaden Ivey are typically the motor that drives the Pistons’ offence but Toronto’s defence is geared toward stifling perimeter play and those 3 were harassed into underperforming. Cunningham entered the contention starring Detroit with 23.8 points per crippled but was held to 15, going 6-for-21 connected tract goals including 2-for-9 connected three-point attempts.

Toronto: Poeltl has been a accordant beingness for the Raptors each play and Friday was nary different. He carried Toronto for agelong stretches of the game, including 9 points successful the 3rd quarter. His 19 rebounds matched his vocation champion acceptable connected Oct. 28 successful a 127-125 overtime nonaccomplishment to the Denver Nuggets.

Key moment

Toronto scored six consecutive points — generating 2 turnovers on the mode — successful the last 2 minutes of play to marque it a one-possession crippled with 15.3 seconds left. Ochai Agbaji fouled Ivey, who made 1 of 2 escaped throws for a three-point Pistons lead. Dick missed a three-pointer aft a Toronto timeout and centre Jalen Duren made 1 of 2 escaped throws to decorativeness the game.

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Key stat

Both teams played choky defence connected the shot carrier, tangling each different up astatine half-court. Toronto had 15 turnovers and Detroit had 14.

Up next

The Raptors sojourn the Atlantic Division-leading Boston Celtics connected Saturday night. Toronto caput manager Darko Rajakovic joked pre-game that if his squad was going to get to Boston connected time, they had to debar overtime against the Pistons to bushed the unreserved hr caused by Taylor Swift’s performance letting retired from adjacent Rogers Centre.

Detroit travels to Washington, D.C., to instrumentality connected the Wizards connected Sunday.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 15, 2024.