Detroit Pistons vs Miami Heat Prediction, Pick and Preview, March 15 (3/15): NBA

Detroit Pistons vs Miami Heat Prediction, Pick and Preview, March 15 (3/15): NBA

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Odds
Time 7:30 p.m. EST
Pistons money line +625
Pistons spread +13 (-110)
Heat money line -1000
Heat spread -13 (-110)
Over / under 214.5
2021-2022 season stats
  Detroit Pistons Miami Heat
Record 18-50 45-24
Road / home record 7-27 24-9
Streak L3 L1
Points per game 103.57 109.43
Points allowed per game 112.43 104.84
Rebounds per game 43.09 44.41
Rebounds allowed per game 46.34 41.78
Over / under record 33-33-2 40-29
Preview

The Miami Heat will play their 6th straight game at home when they host the Detroit Pistons on Monday. This is the third time these teams face off this season, Miami has the lead 2-1.

DETROIT PISTONS

The Pistons have won their last 3 games and are 7-27 on the road this season with a 18-50 record overall ranking 14th in the Eastern Conference. Detroit lost to the Clippers 106-102 last Sunday.

Saddiq Bey is shooting 34.5% from beyond the arc with 2.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Pistons, while averaging 15.9 points and 5.8 rebounds. Cade Cunningham is shooting 44.4% and averaging 22.3 points over the past 10 games for Detroit.

In their last 10 games the Pistons are 5-5, averaging 109.5 points, 44.3 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 6.0 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.4 points.

INJURIES: C. Cunningham is questionable

MIAMI HEAT 

The Heat have won 4 of their last 6 games and are 24-9 at home, they have a 45-24 record overall ranking first in the Southeast. In the last meeting with the Pistons on Dec. 24 the Heat won 115-112 led by 29 points from Tyler Herro.

Tyler Herro is shooting 44.1% and averaging 20.9 points for the Heat. Max Strus is averaging 2.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games for Miami.

In their last 10 games the Heat are 7-3, averaging 112.5 points, 41.9 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 7.9 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.2 points per game.

INJURIES: Martin is out. Oladipo is questionable.

BETTING TRENDS

Detroit are 5-0-1 ATS in their last 6 games.

Detroit are 4-1-1 ATS in their last 6 games against Miami.

Miami are 6-2 ATS in their last 8 games.

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Miami's last 6 games.

Prediction

All of the last 3 head to head games this season have been close games, so there is should be a reason why the oddsmakers are putting this spread so high. If Cunningham doesn't play things could get very ugly for the Pistons, they're 1-13 this season playing without him. I'm taking the Heat to cover.

PICK: Heat -13 (-110)

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